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Old 21-11-2006, 05:59
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Originally Posted by ub2yoo View Post
jaak as you say would mean "from" ? In the books it's "yahk" and not Jaak..which is a huge difference in pronunciation (you call US guys Jankees or Yankees (besides farangs) ;-) ?

Get more books? Jaak is From. Khun Maa Jaak Nai?

Yahk I assume to be the same sound as Yaak which is Want/Like. Most of the trouble with learning Thai I think is that there's no universal convention for translation to phonetic english...
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