Welcome to our Thai Talk, and wow it’s our 14th article already. This is where you can learn how to speak Thai for free without troublesome or tiredness. Here I teach you only the basic and really get right on the real conversations and dialogs used in Thailand. So whenever you get a chance to visit the country whether to train Thaiboxing or Muay Thai, you will get along with the people real fast. You can help us improve the article by telling us what you want to know or say in Thai that you think it’s really important to know or to survive here for quite sometimes.
I only teach you one or two phrases a day because there’s no use to make you memorize a lot of things because that will add more stress and won’t help improve learning skill.
The phrase of the day is “Who are you?” or when you’re frustrated said “Who the hell are you?”. I don’t think I have to explain when and with whom to use these phrases, so let’s get started.
“Who are you?”, the normal one, in Thai is “Khun Pen Khrai” and “Who the hell are you?”, the angrily said one, is “Khae Pen Khrai” or even impolite one is “Mueng Pen Khrai”, but that wouldn’t be so lovely to hear from a foreigner I think. So let’s stick with just “Khae Pen Khrai”.
From the phrases, you can see that in Thailand have different words for different levels of politeness. Just the word “you” can be said “Khun” the polite one, “Khae”, the less polite one, and “Mueng” the impolite one.
However you might hear the impolite word a lot in a group talk between friends because for them might be ok and sound like they are close. So you can use it when you are sure that you’re close to them only or when they start using those words with you.
Have fun practicing!