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06-04-2007, 00:15
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Maybe you should teach your gf to speak danish...it seems that you want to spend the rest of your lifes with her..So she teach you thai and you teach danish.....Or maybe thats a suprice for her as your travel "ticket upgrade"....Sorry in my eyes is a load of BULL:::T Wake up to the real world budy. jesper_dk 
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06-04-2007, 00:20
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Cool down, J, we're talking about learning Thai here so Danish is irrelevant. Start a Danish thread if it makes you feel better. 
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06-04-2007, 00:23
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But if you read all the other threads by him then maybe you will understand.....But i am prepaire to get some serious beating with this post. jesper_dk
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06-04-2007, 00:28
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I often read DK's posts, J, like I'm reading them now, along with yours. He usually makes a contribution to the general knowledge, which with all due respect, please don't be offended, you could be doing too.
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06-04-2007, 00:33
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Thats your opinion RobRoy...And i have mine....Please tell me what kind of knowledge??????? because i did not find it on my search...sorry jesper_dk
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06-04-2007, 00:56
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Just read the thread title, we know you can, so let's get back on topic, please.
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11-04-2007, 15:41
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Yep, got a new one. It accidently slipped the lips of my wife yesterday evening while she was burning down some bushes in the garden and burned her fingers.
A quick: Gnui No <--- which I guess means something like, oh sh*t. She never would teach me bad words, but this one I now use all the time and she's not so happy about it 55555555
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11-04-2007, 16:09
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Good one Mai Chob..... pen pai mai dai..... I must memorize this one as it can be very useful next month...55555555.....
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11-04-2007, 16:29
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Careful with that one, dude. She may have said : ngoh ngao (sounds like nor no, both falling tones) which means stupid.........OK to call yourself stupid when you've made a mistake (ie burning yourself when using fire) but could backfire if you use it outside the home.
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11-04-2007, 17:54
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Would you believe it, I came across the term 'egkaan san' for the first time today (within days of the above post). It was used in relation to completion documents handed over at the end of a construction contract. It sounded more like: ega saan (to my ear) and was said as written with the adj before the noun. If you're going to use 'saan dtraa' though, say that as written (noun then adj)
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11-04-2007, 20:08
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Err...not sure what you mean, Mai Chob. Isn't 'talk' and 'speak' the same word in English, 'phut' in Thai.
I know Baawk (low tone), to 'tell' ?? Can you give us an example of what you mean?
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11-04-2007, 20:53
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Don't apologize dude, I got all the time in the world....
'thaam' (rising tone) : to ask. 'baawk' (low tone) : to tell (Thai, not Isaan dialect) 'phut' (falling tone) : to speak
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12-04-2007, 10:03
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khaaw (rising tone) : give
generally accepted as polite speech, eg. 'khaaw bin duay' which literally translated is: 'give bill also' but actually means : 'check, please' or 'bill, please' yaak (low tone) : want Just from personal experience, if you're shopping and have negotiated a deal you would indicate your desire to make a purchase with : 'Yaak dai, khap'. I'm pretty sure this is accepted polite speech. (JB, can you help with this one?) There is also yaak (falling tone) : difficult
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12-04-2007, 10:25
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Hi guys! Have been out of commission for the last week m/l. Khao (rising tone) means white, so I guess by khaaw you mean "khoh"(rhymes with law), and yes, it is rising tone. Khoh means "may I have", so in your example, it means "May I have the bill?" The word translated as give would generally be "hai," although hai also can mean "for" and sometimes "to". I think if you use Khoh to mean "may I have", you won't go wrong with that. Give is more general. Khoh is more specific. It's always worked for me. Yaak is a word that is better translated as "would like" or sometimes "desire." I always use it as "woiuld like" and that works well. In situations where you aretelling a girl yoiu want her, it then could be interpreted as desire. That is low tone. As you correctly said, falling tone means difficult, as in "Phut pasa Thai yahk maak! Chai mai?" To which she says, "Mai chai, phut phasa Thai ngaay. Phut phasa Angrit yahk maak!" That argument can go on forever! Words that mean want are: Ao , as in "Mai ao, khrap!" (I don't want any!!) and dtongkan, which is a stronger version of want, and means more like "need," i.e., I want it because I need it.
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12-04-2007, 10:49
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Garuna is almost never heard in normal speech, because it is high class and very formal. You will hear it in airports, when they say "Will Mr. Dang please report to the .....", then when they say it in Thai, you will hear karuna used. Often when you use the word "please," you are asking for something. You can just use the word "khoh" as discussed in the last post, as this is considered very polite, much more so than using "ao". But if you want to say, "Please may I have something," which I always do when I ask the guy at the money exchange to give me 500 Baht notes for some of the 1000s he has just handed me, then I add "noi" at the end of the sentence, just before the khrap, as in "Khoh haa roi noi khrap?" (May I have 500s, please?) Always works a charm! I sometimes hear the Thais also use na after the noi, but using khoh and noi na in the same sentence would probably be redundant, so I leave it out.
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15-04-2007, 08:47
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im going to go do an introductry course of Thai (i have a phrase book alrdy) it will cost $195 for 16 lessons 2 hours each time - pretty good for the costs. if anyone else is in Aust/Canberra and wants to know where. pm me
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15-04-2007, 21:19
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15-04-2007, 21:25
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You got me with that one , had to look it up as the only 'nimrods' I knew were 'a hunter' or 'a type of aircraft'.
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15-04-2007, 21:55
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What exactly is a nimrod?
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15-04-2007, 22:09
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Is this the "Let's Speak English" thread? Excuse me, I was looking for the "Let's Speak Thai" thread, don't let me disturb you guys. Carry on.
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15-04-2007, 22:15
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You'll probably find it here , in the "Thai language" section.
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15-04-2007, 22:17
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BTW, thank you for your awesome contributions to this thread
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