Thai Language Quick Start Guide for Tourist and Travellers

1. Introduction: Hi there and welcome to this course where you are going to learn the very basics of Thai language to help you when traveling in Thailand. Let's have a quick look at the PDF book that we are going to use as a guide during this course and I will show you exactly what you are going to learn. We are going to start off with basic greetings such as hello, goodbye, and how to say your name in Thai. Then we are going to look at numbers, so the basics of counting in Thai. After this, we will look at the money and currency used in Thailand to help you when shopping. We will look at ordering drinks and food. Then I will show you some names of popular Thai dishes that I recommend you try when you are in Thailand. Then we will look at fruits and desserts. After this, I will teach you some useful words and phrases about buying things at the market. After this, we will look at buying medicine and words to use at the pharmacy. I will teach you about ordering a taxi and directions, then explain a few things about Thai culture and what not to do when you are in Thailand, okay? So that's what we are going to call for in this course. So let's get started and I will see you in the first lecture. 2. Basics Greetings in Thai: Hello, svai. Welcome to the lesson. At the first, we will study about greetings. Okay, let's see, the first word, the word hello say sowa, but ti separate, like sova, we say crapvad four women. We say, for example, sovavad, crab and svai, four women. Soak, sad, crab, and sowa. The next word, how are you? In thi, you can say sba dim, or this word. You can pronounce different tone, but it's the same meaning. This rising tone is formal. And if you want more friendly, you can say subi high tone anyway. You can use forbard because Thai people will always understand. Okay. And the next word you can answer like I'm Subi D said but in case you're not so good. Mine by mine is by means I'm not so good. The next word, you're welcome. Int indi. And is also separate, like form crap and for women. So you can say like indi rap or indi K. Okay, and the next word, thank you. Tie pun and separate with men and women, you can say con crap or punk. The next word, I'm sorry. Into separate with men and women. So you can say like to crap. Ok. The next word by, you can say like, bye, bye, bye, bye ladies, the next word. Good luck. Tahoe, the next word. See you next time in any any, what's your name in Tu. Tu. And you can answer like my name is. Then put your name T T, then your name. The next word, I come from a T, T T from a means like country. So I come from, for example, you can say I come from England. You pronounce England like grit is low tone. For example, you can say t okay. And the next word, I am, yes, a t. For example, you can say to, it means I am 25 years old. And the next sentence I can speak, tie a little bit. You can say pidio. Noise And the next one is okay. My pen. My pen. The next word. Yes. You can say tie. And no, in tie, you can say my help me in tie. You can say two. I do Y. Two, I do Y. And the next one? I don't know, Tanu. Tanu. The next one I like something in tap something. For example, I like Ta mail. You can say to top mail ladies, the next one, do you understand or you can pronounce like high tone. And the next one I understand. You can say, I don't understand. You can say my co, co, and in die I can. In the next one, complimentary words. The first word, very delicious. You can say may, good job. Tag g, mark, good in so beautiful, cute in N, n. Keep going in Tau. 3. Numbers: And the next one study about numbers number one, T N number two in Ta song three Psalm 45678, pad 910 Ip. Another number that you should know. This is special number 11 in V, pronounce eight. This one number one, we pronounce n. But if it's 11, we will pronounce the next 112, we pronounce like normal 12, it's come from ten plus 210. We pronounce p two, we pronounce song 12, say song. The next 113 we say pam. The next one, this one is special, you need to remember is 20, this p And the next one. This 122 is come from 22. 20 is yep, right? So this one will be Yip. And Song, you pronounce Yep. Song and the next 131 come from 30 plus 01:30. P.m. and Sip. Then plus 18, you pronounce eight. The next 100 Taro 1,000 Ice, 10,000 Ton, 100,010 1 million in an an. 4. Thai Currency: Okay. And the next one currency, we have coins and also bank currency. We will pronounce this 10.25 We will pronounce stand because we will use, but when it's like 1b1b to B, this one we say 25 Santa. And, and the next 10.50, you say Patagia. Okay. And this one, this 12 a song. The next 15, then ten B, B for the banknote. The green one will be 2020 zip. And the next 150 B is, is blue banknote. The next 100 Taro is the red one. The next 1500 Bad Troy is the purple color. And the next 11000 Bd is a gray color. 5. Ordering Drinks: The next one, how to order drinks? At first, you can say may I order something in something? For example, may I order coffee? May I order coffee? Su Fe. Then you can ask how much in the Tau or you can say char just only Tai. Tai is the same meanings. For example, the word draw. Draw means hot, Y yen cold, the next one, Bun free. And Na plow. Nam plow means water. Cha cha means tea. Gfe garf means coffee, no milk. The next one, N P means coconut, num is water, so it will be coconut water nap. And the next one, Nam nam means like juice, orange. So orange juice nums. Next one, nummi, puma means fruit juice. So Nampma fruit juice. The next one, soda. Soda means soda. Lo lo means like alcohol and ba ba is beer. The next one, taua taku is bubble tea and Tai Tai is Thai tea. And this Y, Y is wine. Takeo. Takeo is green milk tea. 6. Ordering Food: Okay. And the next one, how to order Food. You can follow this step. Step one, May, then you can say, then put something. For example, may I order rice? You can say May order rice. Then the next one I want, and how many do you want in? You can say how many do you want? Then put like a classified for the dish in an for example, you want one, you can say no. It means may I order rice and one dishes. And the next one, how much. You can ask how much to, for example, how grap kid, It seemed like step one means may I order stir fried pork with barsu, a fried egg. And how many do you want? Step two, you can say n seem like one dish. And also you can put like a little spicy ladies for the word. A little spicy in the pet net. No, you can pronounce pet No, ladies. And the next one, Bill, please. Thi, you can say like three words like this. The first one you can say, you can say, okay. Let's study about some useful words when ordering food. For example, this one is noodle nodal. This one cooked rice, cook rice in wi. The next one sticky rice, sticky rice in we cow. This one is instant noodles. Instant noodles in mama. The next one Pork, chicken, beef in a fish blah blah. Seafood in tal, tal trim in gum, gum, shellfish int y, Hoy crab duck and of inter the next one sausage. This sig meat balls. Look look tofu to boy egg, Kim kam omelet, kalka, fried egg, kayak. 7. Popular Thai Dishes: And the next one, popular Thai dishes, Pata pata patsy. El patsy. El pagrapu. Paga pu stir fried pork with basil and rice. Cow, pot, more cow pot. More fried rice with pork. Gang Kian Gang Kian green curry. Toma Toma guy. Coconut chicken soup. Tom yam, Tom yam. Um, spicy prawn soup. Domo, domo clear soup with minced pork and tofu. The next 1 gram gram garlic, pork fried rice cow soy cows dam papaya salad. Gang gang grilled chicken grilled chicken hot hot fried chicken pang Panang pang, curry cow pot support cow pot sub burrot. Pineapple fried rice. Got Maman him pan. Gottman him pan. Stir fried chicken with Shuts. 8. Fruits and Desserts: The next one top ten fruits in Thailand. The first one Map Coconut, Tang, Tang, Water, melon, Glu, Glu, banana, Malala, Papaya, orange, Cantalup, Cantalup. Melon Spot sap, Pineapple app app, Appleman Mango Duran. The next one top ten desserts in Thailand. The first one, mango sticky rice ice cream, ice cream coconut ice cream coconut rice pancake W m w lam bamboo sticky rice Wumut to mud banana in sticky rice. Partono part tubmrop top Tm grab Thai Red ruby in coconut milk. Rut rut chumamt grass jelly with fresh milk and brown sugar. 9. Buying Things at the Market: Useful words for buying things at the market. The first one, how much Ta Ta can I have discount in Tal cheap, expensive in Ta Peng Peng. The next one I want to buy in Tau. In here the example is T shirt, I want to buy a T shirt, T shirt in. So you can say ladies. And the next one can I try in my and the next one, can I test in Tammy Chi? And if you would like to ask, do you have something, you can say me in here. The example is T shirt. Do you have a T shirt? And the next one you would like to ask about the size. Do you have some size? You can say in here. The example is size. You can ask do you have the next one? Do something color in me? In here the example is blue. It means do you have a blue color in Tim ladies? The next one had in glove trousers or Pensky Scoff tie. Pankank T shirt, Tutu skirt, Tiraron. Hi hues in tie. Wrong tie. Zoom wrong ties. Trainers or sneakers in Tibia bits jacket. You can flip flops wrong wrong Ta socks to to, to, to underwear to Ti pajamas, swimsuit. The next one, cosmetics necklace. So ratko earrings, Tang sunglasses, desserts, built snacks, fruits, perfume, naoh. 10. Useful words for buying Medicine: The next one useful word for buying medicine. Worse for symptoms, you should know the first one. Headache, cough, fever, P. P, allergic reaction, itchy, Tonga tonia. Diarrhea, Petalog. Petalog scrap, so that at the end, at the end, vomiting plaster in play. Pain killers in an allergy pills in a diarrhea. Pisa, medicine for a fever in ya ya. Mosquito repelling bandage in pan pan p, cough medicine in ya, ya. Inhaling ya, ya. 11. How to Order a Taxi: The next one. Useful words for ordering a taxi. For example, where are you going? A, I will go somewhere in here. The example is restaurant. I will go to the restaurant in Tanya, how much will it cost? Or you can say to the meaning the same. And the next one, what's the distance? How long will it take? Go straight? Thrown by. Thrown by. Turn left. Leo Leo. Turn right. Leo Leo, stop. Drop here, Ti the next one common places to go Airport Saban train station, Stadia Road, Fi Train road, Stata Road and the next one bus station in St Dangdang BTS. But normally Thai people will call BTS just the people will understand is BTS Talal Restaurant in the Brann Bran coffee shop. Bran Bran Convenience Store in Te Branch on Branion Pharmacy in Te Branchy Branch Market Tell shopping mall in Tengas hang pack toilet in a hotel in hospital in Pan Drop Bank. Take police station in Pro gas station in Mm Tempo In what? Dental clinic. Tallman Masa Chop in nightclub, P bar in rrupermarketop will call the name of supermarket, for example Xie Lotus or 711. But in Ti accent we'll pronounce and seven, big 11. But for 711, Thai people will pronounce only seven, just this you know it means 711 supermarket. The next one, Church in Board Board. 12. Directions: The next one direction basics started the word turn Leo, Leo. Turn right, Leo, Leo, go straight, throw, throw by you. Turn on the corner in Throm Throm junction. Sam yet Sam yet intersection. Crosswalk Tang Tang railroad in tie Tang Tangroadi. Tang Tangroadi. Footbridge, Tapan Sapan Roundabout opposite, for example, the Pechopppose game shop, for example, this one pet shop opposite the game shop here. The next one between ****, **** for example. The barber shop is between the pizza restaurant and the flower shop. Look at the further. The barber shop here is between pizza restaurant and flower shop here. The next next to the K, for example, the pizza restaurant is next to the pet shop. This one pizza restaurant next to the Pet chop here in front of Kanga Kang. In front of here. Behind in Gang Kang long, this one behind in G, G falling tone. For example, the pizza restaurant is the bizzabo. Next one, Gli middle tone G. For example, the fast food restaurant is far from the barber shop, The fast food restaurant here and the barber shop here they are far. 13. What not to do when visiting Thailand: The next one, what you should do when you visit Thailand. Wear polite clothes when visiting temples, you should we ch or sleeves or long, long, long skirt, long skirt. Don't wear hats or revealing outfits. And the next one, don't wear tank top, don't wear Jim pens and don't wear torn pens. The next one, why to say hello or sorry, why is doing like this, will use Y to show respect and to be polite. Tight people will use y in these different situations. The first one to say hello and goodbye, we'll use then say the word Swati, crab or svadka. People always let people know when they arrive or need to go. To be polite people will why to those who are older than them or whom they have respect. For example, a teacher among their parents, et cetera. And the next one to say sorry, we'll use y. Then say crab to say thank you. Then say cocoon, crap or ****. Coconrab, ****. And when we why to say hello, goodbye or thank you to someone, that person choose Y bag. Acknowledge the respect for why there are different types of Y, okay? The first example, why back to who, Why you first or why to friends or authors. And the next one, why to Buddha or monks. If you notice it's different because why to Buddha will put thumb here between the eyebrows. Here. Here. If y to Buddha seem like Buddha teach you to be good person, teach you to have good mindset and to have good brain. That's why to put thumb in between the eyebrows. The next one. Why to parents, it seems like your parents give birth then make you breathe in this wo, that's why I put thumb at the nose. The next one. Why? To teachers, it seemed like teacher always teach you by the mouth then teach you to be good person, teach you to have knowledge. That's why I put thumb at the mouth like that. The next one, don't wear a hat when you are in the house. Thai people will not wear hats when they are inside. In the past, people believe that wearing a hat inside was disrespectful to other people in the house. There is another ti belief that wearing a hat in the house will make you bold in the future. Disbelief was to scare people into not wearing a head inside. However, people may have thought this because it's hot in Thailand. If people wear a head inside, then they may become sweaty and could make their hair unclean, which could cause problems in the future for their hair. Also, if a person wears a head inside, then the people around them may not see their clearly. This could make them worry as they may think they could be a criminal Take off your shoes when go into a temple or house ties believe that a temple is a sacred place and people should take off the when going inside a temple to show respect to Buddha. Also, taking off your shoes when going into people's homes is seen as good manners in Thailand. This is because outdoor shoes can get dirty and you will show respect to the people living there when take off your when enter their home. The next one, don't touch anyone's head. Thai people believe that the head is the highest part of the body and we should not play with it. So to be respectful, don't touch anyone's head. Also in the past this believe in magical things where those who had Tai tattoos or Andra could be protected from black magic and lucky things could happen in their life. One of the rules for this to happen though was to not let your head go under the clothes hanger or the magic of a tattoo network. So ties do not let anyone touch or play with their head. But you can touch anyone's head in an affectionate way if they are in your family and they are younger than you. However, those who are younger can only touch older people's head if they're around them to touch it or play with their head. The next one, don't pass any stuff by throwing. Timers are to pass stuff hand to hand and not to throw things to pass them. That's because throwing the item cause injury to the person who throw them to or can break the item. Don't use your feet for pointing this. Believe that the feet are the lowest part of the body and people should not use them to point at anything, especially food. The next one, don't show public displays of affection. Sometimes showing affection is a good thing for a relationship. But in the past in Thailand, public forms of affection like hacking, touching, or kissing should only be done in private. Older generations believe that showing a fiction publicity is too intimate and they don't want children to see this as they believe it will set a bad example for them. Nowadays though, Thai people are more open to seeing couples holding hands, hacking, and kissing in public, but it is still not a common thing to do. So when you want to show affection to your partner in public, then you should consider the place where you are at. For example, don't do this in a temple or in a place that has older people or children. 14. Thanks and Bye + Class Project : Okay, so we are now at the end of this course. Thank you so much for watching and I hope you found it useful. I hope you have now learned some keywords and phrases to help you on your trip to Thailand so you can talk to the locals and get by on your trip for your class project. I want you to write down any words or phrases that you have learned from this course and then post this as your class project so I can see exactly what you have learned. By the way you can write the words down phonetically. So don't worry about writing in Thai if you are new to learning the language. Okay, So thanks for watching and if you hopefully see you in the next class.