Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first episode of
Basic Thai
With me.
In Basic Thai my plan is to teach you guys
basic Thai.
Okay. So for those of you who don't know already. I'm actually not a
native speaker of the Thai language
So I started learning Thai five years ago and since then I've been using it in my everyday life
So for example at work with friends and while I was at university
So hopefully having been and still being a student of Thai I can help you guys learn some Thai as well
So in terms of format and also the subject matter that I'm going to teach
It's still quite flexible at the moment because I'm not really sure what everybody wants to learn
So I've seen some people on Twitter and Instagram and stuff.
They've been showing that they've actually been learning the Thai alphabet
So they want to learn how to read and write as well. So if that's the case
Then I can teach that but if people just want to learn basic vocabulary
Or they just want to learn things that they can say when they come to town on a holiday then I'm also happy to teach
That as well, so after this video if you liked it, please don't forget to press subscribe
And then also if there's any things that you'd like me to teach about specifically
please write them in the comment section below
Okay, let's get started. Okay
So the first thing I want to teach you guys today are two very important words in the Thai language
and those two words are
krup and ka
So if you're at all familiar with the Thai language
I'm sure you've heard these words many times before
krub and ka
These two words can be used at the end of almost any sentence
By placing krup or ka at the end of a sentence. It makes what we're saying...
By putting in krup or ka at the end of the sentence it makes what we're saying
sound more soft and more polite
So, next I'll explain when to use krup and ka
So there are three main situations when we use the words krup and ka
The first situation is when we're speaking to someone who is elderly or older than us
the second situation is when we are talking to someone who we respect
For example, our parents teachers and
seniors at work people like that
The third situation is when talking to strangers and people we don't know
So now you understand the words krup and ka
So, today I want to teach you guys how to say
Hello. How are you? Good? Bye and thank you in Thai. Okay, so to say hello in Thai we say
Okay, so to say hello in Thai we say
Now if you want to make that sound more polite then boys or males
Men
Dudes
You can say sa-wat-dee-krup
and then if you're female you would say sa-wat-dee-ka
The pronunciation of this word can be a little bit difficult
So, let's break it down
A lot of people pronounce this word
That's also fine
but
If you want to sound more Thai
Then it must be pronounced a little bit differently
At the 'wat' part of the word
You actually stop the sound and you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth like this
You can't see it
Don't worry about it
So I'm gonna write it
How I would stand it out phonetically here
So you can see I'm spelling it. Wat-dee
So when you say you kind of imagine there's a 'T' there but you don't have to say
You just let the sound stop for a second and then say 'dee'
If there was no T, then when you read it you might think 'sawadee'
I put the 'T' in there so hopefully so when you read it
You can sound it out
(The following explanation is for Japanese speakers)
So, now you know how to say hello.
Sometimes when speaking to friends, 'sa-wat-dee' is fine
If you want to sound more informal
we actually shorten it and some people just say 'wat-dee'
So when you're speaking Thai with your friends, maybe you can try 'wat-dee' next time
You know not only how to say hello. You also know how to say good morning good evening and good
Good morning, good evening and goodbye
Because for all three of those situations we use the same word
Which is 'sa-wat-dee'
There were actually words in the past for good morning. Good night and goodbye, but they're really old-fashioned
So people don't use them anymore
It doesn't matter what time of the day it is you can use to what the any time to say
hello to people.
So, the next thing I'm going to teach is how to say
How are you?
To say how are you in Thai, we say
Now if you want to sound more formal, of course, you can say
Let's take a look at the intonation
so the first part of the word
Is the same tone. It's a flat tone. It doesn't change. It doesn't go up or down
Then the second part
Is an upward rising tone.
Let's try and say it again
I'm going to show the intonation of the word with a line
the line stays flat
The sound goes up
If somebody asks you
and you want to say I'm fine or I'm good
then you can say
or if you want to sound more polite, then you can say
or you can say
Next I'm going to teach you how to say thank you
In Thai, 'thankyou' is
Then to sound more polite you can say
Actually the times when you would say just 'korp koon'
is not that common
You might say 'korb koon tee' which means thank you for and then you would say what you're thankful for
But in most cases we usually say
Next is our favorite intonation
The word 'korp' is a downward tone
then koon is back to a neutral tone
An important thing to note is when you say 'korb'
That you close your mouth
like this
I'm gonna write it down so you can kind of imagine that there's a 'P' thing but we don't say that
You just close your man that make silent 'P' if that makes sense.
I'm sure you guys will get it
Instead of saying
(This explanation is also specific to Japanese speakers)
(English resumes at 9:52)
Hopefully you guys found that clip educational. and useful
As you can probably tell I'm still nervous teaching Thai
Especially on camera
But hopefully that will get better at the time
So if you like the video, please don't forget to press like and I'm looking forward to reading your comments later. See you