Expat life in Bangkok White Boys in Asia....and their women!: Thai Language Can be learned

Expat life in Bangkok White Boys in Asia....and their women!

Just my notes and stories about Expat life in Bangkok. Our frustrations, our laughs! Despite it all Bangkok is still the best place to live and we ENJOY it!!

 

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Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Thai Language Can be learned

Well learning Thai is just a little bit easier when you have this list of words

The 100 basic words used in conversation are shown below. These typically comprise around 50% of all words used:

1. a, an 2. after lang jaak 3. again ik 4. all thang mot 5. almost keuap
6. also duay 7. always samoe 8. and lae 9. because phraw waa 10. before kawn
11. big yai 12. but tae 13. (I) can dai 14. (I) come maa 15. either/or
16. (I) find phop17. first raek 18. for sam rap 19. friend puuen 20. from jaak
21. (I) go pai 22. good dee 23. goodbye 24. happy sabai dee 25. (I) have mi
26. he kao 27. hello 28. here thi nii 29. how yaang rai 30. I Phom/Chan
31. (I) am behn 32. if thaa 33. in thi 34. (I) know lu 35. last thee laeow
36. (I) like chorp 37. little lek 38. (I) love rak 39. (I) make tham 40. many maak
41. one neung 42. more ik 43. most tisut 44. much maak 45. my
46. new mai 47. no 48. not mai 49. now tawn nii 50. of
51. often bawy-bawy 52. on bon 53. one 54. only thao-nan 55. or reu
56. other 57. our 58. out nawk 59. over set 60. people khon
61. place thii 62. please 63. same meuan kan 64. (I) see 65. she
66. so 67. some baang 68. sometimes baang thii 69. still 70. such
71. (I) tell poot 72. thank you 73. that 74. the 75. their kong kao
76. them kao 77. then laeo gor 78. there is 79. they kao 80. thing sing
81. (I) think khit 82. this ni 83. time mou 84. to ti 85. under tai
86. up bon 87. us rao 88. (I) use chai 89. very ,maak 90. we row
91. what arai 92. when meua arai 93. where tee nai 94. which nai 95. who crai
96. why thammai 97. with gap 98. yes chai 99. you kuhn 100. your kong kuhn

I got the list from a memory improvement website which you can go to here and then I filled in the words using a Thai dictionary and a very helpful broken hearted Thai friend of mine. On the subject of learning Thai I highly rate this site here as its plays the sounds and words for you which is the hard thing to grasp. I know the important 100 words and more besides but there is such a way to go. Need a Thai girlfriend!!!