Welcome to our Thai Learning article. We named it Thai Talk because this will help you talk Thai not read or write. I really believe that talking or speaking a language to communicate is the most important method. You don’t need to know how to read or write if you just starting to learn a language especially when it’s one of the hardest languages in the world.
What I’m teaching you today is really useful when you go shopping. When you want to buy something is the showcase or wherever you can’t get the product by yourself and you will need to ask the seller to pick that up for you. If you know what that thing you want is called, that’s the best. But if you don’t, when you have no idea how to say it is Thai, this is why this lesson is quite useful. All you have to do is to say these following phrases.
I want this one = Ao An Nee Ka/Krap
I want that one = Ao An Nan Ka/Krap
It’s really ok to just say “I want this” “I want that” in Thai and it’s not rude at all because here you can see that we add “Ka or Krap” at the end of the sentence to add the politeness to it.
Now let’s take a look at the vocabularies you might want to learn from the phrases above.
Ao = to take, to want
An = a quantifier of thing like a piece
Nee = this
Nan = that
You can see that we don’t put the word “I” in front of our phrases. It’s not necessary to say the pronoun all the time in Thai. Really convenient but might sound a bit weird for you that’s all.
Practice and memorize this so you can use it whenever you need to.