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Today I’m going to teach you how to say hello in Thai. I suppose you already know the word Sawaddee or some write Sawasdee which means “hello” already. But what I’m teaching you here is something else. It’s something that you might not have heard or learned anywhere else.

I’m focusing on what you can say to greet another people in the morning so it’s good morning basically. And you will see that there are a variety of choices for you to choose to say in the morning when you go to work or work out and meet your friends.

Starting with the most formal one to the least formal one, we get:
Arun Sa wad = Good Morning!
Sawaddee Ton Chao = Hello in the morning (I’m trying to show you the literal meaning)
Sawaddee = Hello
Wad Dee = Hi
Ngai = What’s up! Hey!
Ma Laew Ror? = You’re here already?

Choose the one you like that will best suit the person you’re talking to. Remember that the level of the language is really important. If you’re talking to a more mature person like your teacher or trainer, you will need to use a bit formal language but don’t go for the most formal one because that would sound really weird to him than showing him respect. The last three which are “Wad Dee” “Ngai” and “Ma Laew Ror?” I suggest you use them with your friends and someone less mature than you are, like a younger person.

So now you can practice saying all of these at home and wait to use it whenever you get a chance to contact with a Thai. It’s not really necessary to memorize all of them. I would go for the ones in the middles first, then if I have more time and mood I’ll try to memorize the rest.

See you next time with our Talk Thai article here!

So I hope you did your homework practicing what I taught you in the past weeks. Today we’ll move on to the next topic, very important, Thai food! I’m going to tell you to say some phrases to ask and answer about the food.

But what I want to talk about first is about the name of our topic, Som Tam. Many of you might have heard of it. Som Tam is a typical North East of Thailand’s food. It consists of fresh papaya (green), Thai chili, beans, lime and lots more. It’s quite healthy actually and might be too spicy.

Ok. Back to the Thai phrases you might need to know. Today I am teaching how to order something. Let’s say Som Tam, our topic here.

Can I take your order? = Rup Arai Dee Ka/Krap
I’ll get a plate of Som Tam = Chan Ao Som Tam Nueng Chan
Anything else? = Rup Arai Eek Mai Ka/Krap
A sticky rice (we eat sticky rice with Som Tam) = Kao Niew Nueng Tee
How much is it? = Tao Rai
40 baht = Si-Sib-Baht

And I am not kidding with the price there. 40 baht is quite expensive already. On the street, you can buy Som Tam and Kao Niew for 30 baht or even less.

Do you know any other Thai food? I believe you might have heard of “Pad Thai”. It is a stir fried rice noodle. Very tasty actually and not so spicy. I find lots of my foreign friends love this dish and I believe you will like it too. So if you get a chance to try any Thai food, don’t miss that chance. Food is one of the most we are famous for. And I can guarantee that you will want to try some more. Being in Thailand, do not just keep eating hamburgers.

Welcome to our Thai lesson right here in our own weblog. I hope you’re happy with our articles so far and also find them useful and practical. The most important thing of learning a new language is to be able to use and communicate with the language you want to learn.

The reason we want to teach you Thai is just in case you want to come to Thailand one day to travel or train thaiboxing with Muay Thai professional trainers in Thailand, because there are still not so many Thais are familiar with English.

Today’s article is also very crucial. There are quite number of people nowadays allergic to peanut so if you are one of them, knowing how to tell that to others especially who cooks you food is really a must do. So how to say “I am allergic to…” in Thai we say “Chan/Pom Pae…” and then just add what you are allergic to in the back, for example, you’re allergic to peanut, the word for peanut is “Tua Li Song” so the whole sentence will be “Chan/Pom Pae Tua Li Song”.

If you’re allergic to something else, let’s say…Shrimp, you say “Chan/Pom Pae Goong”.

Another that way to tell other people is to tell them that you can’t eat this or that. Just say, I can’t eat peanut, or I can’t eat shrimp. In Thai, how to say you can’t eat something is…”Chan/Pom Kin ….. Mai Dai” Let’s take a look at the vocabularies:
“Kin” = to eat
“Mai” = no/ not
“Dai” = can/ to be able to
So the whole sentence to say you can’t eat peanut is “Chan/Pom Kin Tua Li Song Mai Dai” or for I can’t eat shrimp is “Chan/Pom Kin Goong Mai Dai”.

That was quite easy right? See you next time with more crucial Thai phrases right here!

Welcome to MuayThaiSport.com/blog! You know Thai Talk is one of my favorite articles so far. Every week I am always excited to teach you to speak Thai and talk like Thais. It is fun and really useful. You might think that Thai people should better learn English instead of you learning Thai. Well we do have English class in school but it is not really practical. I can just say that most of the people have already forgotten the most basic and simple phrases in English after graduating.

So if you want to easily survive in Thailand, you have to learn a tiny bit of Thai to communicate to the locals. And let me tell ya, the locals do willingly want to talk to you.

So today is one of the TOP HIT questions they want to know and ask which is where you are from. In Thai you say: Ma Jak Nai Ka/Krap or Ma Jak Pra Ted Arai Ka/Krap (from which country you are from?).

The most common answer is “I am from…” in Thai is “Chan/Pom Ma Jak Pra Ted……” which literally mean “I come from…..country.”

The list below is how to say your country in Thai:
Please note that the countries that are not listed below are pronounced the same way with in English (but with Thai accent).

Belgium (Bel Yiem)
Cambodia (Kam Pu Cha or Kmen)
China (Jeen)
France (Fa Rang Set)
Germany (Yer Ra Man)
Greece (Greek)
Japan (Yee Poon)
Korea (Kao Lee)
Portugal (Por Too Ket)
Thailand (Thai)
United Kingdom (Ang Grit)
United States (America)

Well that’s it! Not really many list of countries right? And when you say the country name, don’t forget to say “Pra Ted” which means “country” before you say the word. It is necessary here.

If you still have any questions about this, feel free you put your questions below in the comment. See you next week with another Thai lesson. I hope you enjoy!

Wow it’s been quite a long time since our last Thai Talk, half a month I think. Well we’re back anyway. Today’s topic is sneezing. Well today gonna be more talking than memorizing the new vacabs. There are not many words for sneezing you knew that.

But what I wanna talk about is, sneezing is not such a big deal like in western. To be nice you say “Bless you” or “God bless you” or in German “Gesundheit”. In Thailand, we don’t have anything like that. Since most of us are Buddhist, we do not believe that every time we sneeze, our soul will or could pop out of our body.

But we are more concern about the health. When someone sneeze that means he’s not well. So what we would say or ask are about the health like “are you ok?” “are you sick?” something like that. Don’t say “Buddha bless you”, or we’d be like “whah?”

Anyways, let’s get back to our Thai Talk. The word for “sneezing or to sneeze” is “Jaam”. So when you see someone “Jaam” you say “Are you ok?” or “Are you sick?” which is “Pen Arai Rue Plao” (this literally means “something happen or not?”) or “Mai Sabai Rue Plao” (Are you sick or not?). Mark here that this is not insulting someone in that “Are you sick or what” in that tone of saying. This is about concerning about other people’s health and to show someone that you’re care about them. Nice, isn’t it?

Yeah, no next time when you see a Thai sneeze, basically you don’t have to say anything, but just to be nice, you can ask about his health, like “Are you ok?”.

Wow, today’s article is really easy, isn’t it? Just one new vocabulary to memorize. I bet you like this more than any other Thai Talk articles before. Come back next time to learn Free Thai with us at MuayThaiSport.com/blog.