anyone speak thai?

[MissBelle016]

wish to learn few thai b4 going, can anyone teach me few useful thai? i mean while you in the bar.

 

[Griffyn]

Its hard to learn the thai that the bg's speak, because, like in our languages, they speak a slang version, and do not speak proper thai. so if you were to learn it from a video or book, it will not be the same. I also heard that alot the girls speak in different dialects so that if a farang does know thai, they can speak and he will not understand.

 

[Well Duh!]

which dialects? i heard that some can speak "hokkien"

 

[TAHA]

I am not too familiar, but I hears Khmer and even loas. I think you can learn thai to get by, but like I said, if a girl wants to talk without you knowing what shes saying, she will be able to speak where you dont understand

 

[Doctor Doom]

At the homepage of this forum www.phuket-info.com
there's a phrasebook (look at the bullets - yellow background) , you might find some useful things there.

 

[Daniel T]

I lived in Thailand for about a year and a half , staying in Patong for 9 months and I never got past 'Bar Thai'

Some phrases that kept coming up were:

Boumsing party - f**k party

sabai dee? How are you?

Bagwan - sweet mouth

'pompoi' - fat

Katoye - lady boy

Have a good trip!

 

[Frud]

This Is The Thai I Used When I Was There:
3000 Baht Pouk Pouk Ok

 

[Bob N]

Khortot khrap... chai ki loo khrap?
(Excuse me, how many holes do you use?)

Chrop puying sahm loo
(I like girls with three holes)

You could also substitute in Tam Gan (work) if you wanted to make it even cruder !!!

 

[angel_ika]

Forgot to mention I can supply Pimseur Thai linguaphone or Talk now or Rosetta stone PC SW for learning polite Thai

 

[ariel]

I don't care who you are that's funny!!!

Thanks for the laugh Livinlos and how come you don't talk price here for your goods?

Just wondering. :light:
:cheers:
Heywood

 

[usc]

cause I did not figure that it was a classified section and thought it may be out of line.. Drop me a PM and Nicke if its not welcome just delete away !!

 

[elijah F]

Thai is hard... almost every words ends with "e" "i". can't imagine how i should explain to her that i want she to play lesbian or 3some. :ytounge:

 

[Alesana. ?]

Easy, just tell her you want a sandwich

 

[nancy]

sandwish? sounds good making me hungry.lol how about lesbian?

 

[Meaty Babby CR3]

"Cow" is generally spelled in English as kao or kaao.

It means: white, rice, he, she, they, to enter, horn, hill or small mountain, news, and fishy smell.

It also has many other meanings when used with other words or in compund words, such as "gin kao" means "to eat food," and "kao jai" means to understand, and "kao leu" means rumor, and "puu aan kao" means "TV news anchorman."

Obviously, these words are pronounced with different tones, and differences in how fast the word is said, i.e., short and abrupt pronunciation as opposed to longer, slightly more drawn-out pronunciation of the vowel sound.

To a Thai person, when a word is spoken with a different tone, even though to us it sounds the same, to them it sounds completely different. Often, even people who speak English and talk to farangs all day long, don't have a clue as to what you are saying when you get the tone wrong!

In my Thai class, many times when one student is speaking Thai, the teacher can't understand, even though I understand every word, and I end up translating it for her. Because I speak with the same horrible American accent, it is easy for me to understand him, but the teacher many times can't!!!!!

 

[Prav]

I've purchased about 5 Thai Phrasebooks/ Teach yourself Thai books and 1 CD. Three of the books had loads of errors & phrases you'll never ever need (all Thai published). Two are great:

1. Lonely Planet pocket phrasebook, interesting, concise, good for beach reading.

2. Another Pocket book (can't find it right now), called something like "Bar Girl Phrasebook" is brilliant, Hilarious and very useful.

I bought the above 2 books in the book shop at the bottom of Bangla.

The CD for Windows (by Paiboon Publishing) was pants too !

 

[Joshua]

Here is a useful phrase you might not see in the phrasebooks:

"Mai dai jer gan dtang naan."

Means "Long time, no see."

 

[malteser94]

just to be pedantic about correct transliteration kao...would be kor kai....example nine.

Rice would be correctly transliterated as khao....etc...h makes it harder...

JayBee's more indepth ****ysis of 'Ter' is correct.... tomyam is partially correct, just not as indepth, but he certainly wasn't saying either were gender specific.

I shall now duck...................

 

[Zubayr]

I honestly think you are wasting your time unless you learn to read and understand the thai language properly.

Trying to cross translate thai into written english gets you nowhere.

As we have already seen, there are so many different ways of spelling 'Kow, cow, kao etc. that you waste your time trying to decide which way someone is just trying to say it in english!

I remember a guy who took photographs around the Soi Katoey area stood with me and my friend for about 20 minutes trying to get one word - Friend. When I see it wrote in thai I know how to say it instantly.
Listening to him and repeating it was shit.
I am not knocking the Thais, because I really do think they do really well with the engrish rangwitch, but the difference is, a falang will listen to a shit pronunciation and work out in our minds what the thai person MUST be saying, whereas the thai will just look blankly at you until you say it 100% correct. They dont work out the context of what you say.

All part of the fun!

 

[whoever this is]

Phom pood sa thai nid noi