On day 10, we learned about name of food and how to order food in a Restaurant. Our teacher introduced the name of the food using pictures. I thought we will have lunch together after class and practice our Thai in the real restaurant. But it was only in my imagination :).
The words we learned are:
- kà y : chicken
- khà y : egg
- mǔu : pork
- kûŋ : shrimp
- plaa: fish
- h̀ɔɔy : shellfish
- puu : crab
- n
úa : meat (wua : beef)- phà k : vegetable
- tâwhûu : tofu
It’s been a while since my last post about Thai Language. In December last year I stop my Thai course for my vacation to Indonesia and I haven’t learned Thai language nor learning it at home ever since. Now it’s time to sit and type the Thai lessons again 🙂
On day 8 and 9, we started learning numbers in Thai. Actually I started learning about Thai numbers in the first few weeks after we arrived in Chiang Mai. Knowing a little Thai language about numbers can help you to get the better price when shopping 🙂
There are 2 ways to ask “how much is the price” in Thai :
If you want to ask the price in another currency, you can ask kìi Dollar or Kìi Rupiah (Indonesia Currency). But since we talk in Thai Language and we assume we ask in Thai currency, so we use kìi bà at.
money : ŋən / sataaŋ / taŋ
Other Question about money:
On the 7th day, we started to learn a little bit about past and future tense. We learned to ask about something that happened yesterday, something that happens today and something that will happen tomorrow by adding the adverbs of time in the sentences.
- m
ûawansuun : the day before yesterday- m
ûawannÃi : yesterday- m
ûakhuunÃi : last night- wannÃi : today
- kh
uunnÃi : tonight- (wan)phrûŋnÃi : tomorrow
- kh
uunphrûŋnÃi : tomorrow night- (wan)mar
uunnÃi : day after tomorrowbasically “wan” means day and kh
uun means night. To say something about the future we don’t have to use “wan”.
We can add the adverb of time to the sentences pattern we learned on previous day. For example, on 6th day, we learned this sentences :
Khun chɔɔp dùum kaafɛɛ thîi nay? (Where do you like to drink coffee?)
And if we add the adverb of time in the beginning of the sentences, we can have these examples :
Usually, to say something that will happen in the future, we have to add ca that literally means will. We have to understand that Thai language grammar is not the same with English Grammar. Actually, Thai language has less grammar rule compared to English, and not every English grammar can be mapped to Thai Language Grammar (and vice versa).
This is the grammar pattern for the adverb of time :
To make a sentence question, just add the adverb of time in the beginning of the sentences.
New words we learned on day 7 :
Anyway, I admit, I became less consistent to write my day by day class. I will try to finish what I already started. Just be patient, ok!
On the 6th day, we learned more verbs, some beverages, and places.
Here are the words we learned :
- Verb
- kin : eat
- d
ùum : drink- chɔɔp : like >< mây chɔɔp : don't like
- s
ǔu: buy- khǎay : sell
- rian : learn / study
- sÌ€Ìɔɔn : teach
- pay thîaw : go travel
- maa thîaw : come travel
- tên : dance
On the 5th day, we learned about “?ahÇŽan” (food). As usual we started with words we already learned before and then our teacher gave us new words. We start to combine the questions and made complex sentences.
We started with questions do you know…, do you think … is …, which one do you think more delicious … or … :