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20 WORDS & PHRASES IN THIS VIDEO:
1. Polite Particles
Male speaker: ครับ /kráp/
Female speaker: ค่ะ /kâ/
2. Pronoun “I”
ผม / pŏm/
ฉัน /chán/
3. Hello
สวัสดี /sà-wàt-dii/
4. Thank you
ขอบคุณ /kàwp kun/
5. You’re welcome
ยินดี/yin dii/
6. Sorry or Excuse me
ขอโทษ / kăw-tôot/
7. It’s ok or No problem
ไม่เป็นไร /mâi bpen rai/
8. How are you?
สบายดีไหม /sà-baai dii mái/
9. I am fine.
สบายดี /sà-baai dii/
10. I am ok.
ก็ดี /gâw dii/
11. I am not feeling well.
ไม่สบาย /mâi sà-baai/
12. What about you?
คุณหล่ะ /kun là/
13. How is it going?
เป็นยังไงบ้าง /bpen yang ngai bâang/
14. What’s that? , What did you say?
อะไรนะ /à-rai ná/
15. I don’t know.
ผมไม่รู้ / pŏm mâi rúu/
ฉันไม่รู้ /chán mâi rúu/
16. I don’t understand.
ไม่เข้าใจ /mâi kâo-jai/
17. I can speak Thai a little bit.
ผมพูดภาษาไทยได้นิดหน่อย / pŏm pûut paa-săa tai dâai nít nòi/
ฉันพูดภาษาไทยได้นิดหน่อย /chán pûut paa-săa tai dâai nít nòi/
18. Can you speak slowly please?
พูดช้าๆหน่อย /pûut cháa-cháa nòi/
19. What do you say this in English?
พูดภาษาอังกฤษยังไง /pûut paa-săa ang-grìt yang-ngai/
20. See you later.
เจอกัน /jer gan/

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Me too

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Same

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Same

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1:35 polite particle krap/ka 2:39 I 3:01 hello 3:18 thank you 3:34 you're welcome, my pleasure 3:50 sorry/excuse me 4:11 it's OK, no problem 4:28 how are you? 4:41 I'm fine 5:00 I'm ok 5:11 I'm not feeling well 5:22 what about you 5:41 how is it going? 6:03 what did you say? what's that? 6:34 I don't know 6:53 I don't understand 7:18 I can speak Thai a little bit 7:58 can you speak slower please? 8:36 what do you say this in English? 9:23 see you later

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Her english is so good. It keeps sounding look she is about to say something with an accent and then she brings it back to perfect english.

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You are explaining in an easiest way

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I am korean.living in seoul. I am studying thai language. But It's very hard language to me. But anyday I wanna speak thai language smoothly. 😊🇰🇷🇹🇭

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It's been a year since you commented this, have you learnt it yet?

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Damn, it’s hard enough learning a new language but now I need to learn male and female languages 😂

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Different because it uses gender from the speaker point of view. Unlike English where you end sentences with the gender of the person being spoken to . But at least it's not French.

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I had been desperately searching for what 'krap' means. I watch Thai series and I hear it a lot!!! Now, I know ☺ Thank you.

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I am glad you learned from our lesson. :)

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@@ThaiwithMod​​⁠when you say for male and female speakers (kráp/kâ) is that when speaking to a male/female or when speaking as a male/female?

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⁠​⁠@@holocene.speaking as a male/female

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I like the way teachers Mod and Pear always explain what each Thai word or group of words mean in English. It has helped me to understand when I listen to them do roll play with other Thai people for listening skills. Thank you both!

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Thank you for your comment. Pear and I are happy to hear that you enjoy our lessons. :)

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Thank you! I've had some basics from (a quick reading of) a book and (hours of) Thai series, but so far your video is the best I've seen: good choice of basic vocabulary, very well explained and thank you for writing it also in Thai, it's really needed to learn it! Thank you again 😊 Sà-wàt-dii-kâ from France! 🙏🇨🇵

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Thank you for the lesson Krap 😁

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Thank you my dear teacher

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This is excellent. Thank you. Please teach us how to say I like something. For example " I like beans"

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"I like beans" ผม/ฉันชอบถั่ว phom(if you're male)/chan(if you're female) - Chob(like) - tua(beans) ...phom/chan chob padkrapow

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Thank you. It felt good that I knew these ones. I appreciate all the videos. They are super clear and easy to follow and very positively presented :)

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You have an excellent way of teaching 😉🙂. Good pedagogy!! I really find the pronunciation of the letter r very similar to the r of the Spanish language. And I have to say that the Thai writing system is super beautiful.

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😢 i find it hard to pronounce because the languages i learned before dont have any trouble with “r” sound, like french, chinese 😢 or korean. That s why i hesitate to learn spanish, indonesia and thai

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Your video is good. The problem is that you didn't analyse the structure of the sentences.

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Because mostly they are phrases, not sentence. Like idiom/ phrases in English.

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ยินดีค่ะ :)

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2:25 a kitty! tiny meow ~

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Thank you for your comment. We are happy to hear that this lesson is useful for your Thai learning.

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Thank you for your easy to understand explanations and clear pronunciations. These are very useful phrases for beginners. I will be reviewing these every day until they become second nature. I look forward to viewing more of your videos. :D ขอบคุณครับ

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I'll need to watch this a few times to get these down. See you in April ! 🙏😘

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Just found this and it's excellent. I'm in a Thai school right now but these phrases are straight conversational and we haven't covered some of them yet. Thanks !! ขอบคุณครับ !

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Sawatdii ka Khun Mal, I am happy to hear that you found our lessons useful in your Thai learning. Hope you continue to follow our channel to learn more Thai. :)

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You will notice Thai words derived from Sanskrit like Sawaddi (Svasti) and Pas-saa (Bhasha)

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Thank you Kru Pear. You make learning easy, especially the pronunciation

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Sawatdii ka, thank you for watching my videos. I went to Thai schools in Thailand only. I learned English from watching movies. :)

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Do we use Krap/ Ka after the sentence/question when we are addressing either male or female?? Or do we use the gendered endings as if WE are speaking Like me , as a female, would I end every sentence with Ka? Or do I change the ending depending on who I am speaking to? Thank u for uploading!

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Mahalo kha.. the problem for me is that It is so hard to understand the writing pattern, and in your video you only gave the phonetic of each phrase. I hope you also give us the Latin spelling of those phrases. but, again, thank you soooo much, I cannot wait to visit Thailand and I start learning your phrases from now on :))))

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