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Preface
This Mini Book for Cross - Cultural Learning "Learning Thai to English" series, are designed for friends from foreign to learn Thai Language for the initial communication, in these mini book include of basic vocabulary and phrases in Thai letters and the way how to read in English letters, easy for everyone to say. In this series include of five volumes :
1. How to say 2. Pictionary 3. Market 4. Eat in Thailand 5. Time and Special Day
I hope the Mini Book for Cross-Cultural Learning “Learning Thai to English” are useful to my friends, who are interested and want to speak Thai language and you can communicate with the people in Thailand, happily. Arunrat Bamrungchit
Contents
Months of the Year……….………………………………………1
Days of the Week………………………………………………….3
Thailand Festivals…………………………………………………4
Exercises……………………………………………………………8-10
Reference……………………………………………………………11
Author………………………………………………………………..12
TIMES & SPECIAL DAY
Months of the Year
One of the easy things about learning the months of the year in Thai is that the endings are very logical.
Months ending with "yon" have 30 days.
Months ending with "kom" have 31 days.
January มกราคม ma ga ra kom
February กุมภาพันธ์ goom pa pun
March มีนาคม mee na kom
April เมษายน may sa yon
May พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom
June มถุินายน mi tu na yon
July กรกฎาคม ga ra ga dar kom
August สิงหาคม sing ha kom
September กันยายน kun yar yon
October ตุลาคม too lar kom
November พฤศจกิายน preu sa ji gar yon
December ธันวาคม tun wa kom
NOTES:
Both January and July have
two ways of being pronounced:
January: ma-ga-ra-kom and mok-ga-ra-kom July: ga-ra-ga-da-kom and ga-ruk-ga-da-kom
In every-day speech, the word duean for month
is often prefixed and the last syllable is left out.
For example: January = duean ma-ga-ra
Days of the Week
"Day" means "wun" in Thai. Everytime you want
to say the name of the day, you should start
with the word "wun" first.
For example: Monday = wun jun (day moon)
Monday วันจันทร์ wun jun
Tuesday วันอังคาร wun ung-kan
Wednesday วันพุธ wun poot
Thursday วันพฤหสับดี wun pa-rue-hut-
sa-bor-dee
Friday วันศุกร์ wun sook
Saturday วันเสาร์ wun sao
Sun วันอาทติย์ wun ar-tit
In the every day life, we don't really say Thursday that long. We usually shorten it to "wun pa-rue-hut" so it is easier to say and remember.
Thailand Festivals
There are many beautiful festivals in Thailand throughout the year.
วันปีใหม่
New Year's Day. (wun bee mai)
มาฆบูชา
Makha Puja. (ma ka boo-cha)
ตรุษจีน
Chinese New Year. (dtoot jeen)
วันจักรี
Chakri Day. (wun jug-gree)
สงกรานต์
Songkran. (song garn)
วสิาขบูชา
Visakha Puja. (wi sa ka boo-cha)
พธีิแรกนาขวัญ
Royal Ploughing Ceremony. (pi-tee raek na kwan)
เข้าพรรษา
Buddhist Lent. (kow pun-sa)
วันแม่
Mother's Day. (wun mae)
วันปิยมหาราช
Chulalongkorn Day. (wun pi-ya maha-rat)
ลอยกระทง
Loy Krathong. (loi ga-tong)
วันพ่อ
Father's Day. (wun por)
วันรัฐธรรมนูญ
Constitution Day. (wun rat-ta tum-ma noon)
Exercise 1
What month? .............................. มกราคม ma ga ra kom
February กุมภาพันธ์ .........................................
March มีนาคม ..........................................
............................. เมษายน may sa yon
........................ พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom
June มถุินายน ...................................... .............................. กรกฎาคม ga ra ga dar kom
August สิงหาคม ....................................... ......................... กันยายน kun yar yon
.............................. ตุลาคม too lar kom
November พฤศจกิายน ..................................................
................................. ธันวาคม tun wa kom
Exercise 2
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References
http://www.learningthai.com/ http://www.rawaimuaythai.com/Thai_language.html http://womenlearnthai.com/ http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/resources/learning-thai/ http://www.101languages.net/thai/ http://www.transparent.com/learn-thai/#.UhNrbUc5M5s http://www.easystudythai.com/ http://www.learnthaistyle.com/
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