I made a bunch of short, low-quality vids for a class I’m teaching right now as they don’t have access to decent internet and many of them are stuck using slow computers.
To Have
Can’t Remember
To Like
Difficult
To Want/To Take
(อ่ะ) อ่ะ เว่อร์ ก็มันจะ อย่างเช่น ไปเที่ยวแล้วเจอผู้หญิงคนหนึ่งแต่งตัวแบบว่า อุ๊ย! ฟูฟ่อง อลังการมาก (สวยงาม) แบบว่างานอย่างงี้ฉันแต่งแบบธรรมดาก็ได้ ไม่จำเป็นต้องขนาดนั้นก็ได้ แม่ง!ดูผู้หญิงคนนั้นดิโคตรเว่อร์เลย(555++) มันต้องทำเสียงและหน้าตาด้วย เป็นอะไร เป็นอะไรที่แบบเกินความจริงมากเกินไป ใช่ๆ เกินความจำเป็นอะไรอย่างเงี่ย(อือ…ก็เว่อร์ ก็เหมือน over the top rate, too much to sth.) เออ! ใช่ๆ(…….) มากเกินไป (อืม..อะไรมากเกินไป)
เคย means have you ever done sth.
I’m not really sure why people stress over these words. Especially because they often overlap with their English equivalent. You are better off waiting until you have seen/heard loads of examples before using it. So I have dug up some examples for you. These examples give you an idea of how the words are used, but don’t assume that they are only used this way. Don’t use something until you’ve seen/heard it.
เผื่อ -
These are often used when you are telling someone you are going to do something…go eat, go out, go on a trip, etc and the person you are speaking to says this to mean something like “do it/one for me too!”
English example, you are heading out to the pub, but your friend is sick – they say ‘Drink one for me!” That is เผื่อ
เพื่อ -
This word is used for all the do-gooder type organizations and foundations. School for the blind, for the people, etc. However, this is not its only use!
สำหรับ -
As you can see เพื่อ and สำหรับ are very similar. Don’t memorize rules and don’t learn words by themselves. Learn phrases and sentences from real sources. You can’t go wrong.
How about 2 together?
Hey folks. Sorry its been a while. I was hanging out in Korea and Japan for a bit so I haven’t had much time to post.
I have exams this week, but I need a quick break in my studying so I’ll give a bit of fairly useful stuff in this post.
I haven’t said any of this stuff since I’ve been back, but while I was in Japan I came to a number of realizations of problems I had with Thai when I was at the level where I pretty much knew how to say everything I thought I knew, but I couldn’t put it all together. Now I find myself at a similar place in a couple of other languages and when I have some time I hope to make a few good posts on how to make that transition from short sentences and lots of frustration in to fluid speech.
Anwyays, today I wanna briefly talk about how to ‘see’ stuff in Thai.
Stuff like the following:
Pretty much any phrase similar to the above makes use of the word มอง which if is usually defined as ‘to stare.’ While this is correct in some instances, when combinded with its partner word ‘เห็็น’ it can mean something much more useful.
The easisest phrase and the one that popped into my head as possibly being common enough to make it into my 100-sentence project to get outta this is มองไม่เห็น .
So if we start with the base form of that…
มองเห็น
we can pull up a few easy and useful phrases….
Start with those. It may not seem like much, but at the very least, put มองไม่เห็น into your SRS. Its one of those things you find yourself saying a couple times a week and thats frequent enough to throw into your deck.
Busy with final papers/exams, but I promise to get a lot of new stuff up in October!
โทร มา ละ กัน – keep in touch
**This is a great sentence and you will hear it a lot. Its a friendly, informal way of ending a conversation…’lets talk again soon.’ It has no real expectation of calling. It is NOT like saying “Call me tomorrow.” Its much more casual and used as a ‘good-bye.’ Watch for it!
Probably used just as often is its counterpart โทรหาละกัน which means the same thing except you are saying you might be calling them sometime. They are pretty much used interchangeably. Listen for them.
ลงมา เปิดประตู ให้หน่อย come down(stairs) and open the door for me
The Sentence Project has a smaller version of this, but I was thinking more examples are needed as some people have trouble with this pattern.
บอกเขาให้หน่อย tell him/her for me
Is this obvious? Literally its like “give me the telling of him please,” so just forget about translating that nonsense. Just memorize the sentence. Did I mention how you should be learning these Sentence Project sentences? Any way you can! I’d suggest putting the English on the front side of your SRS flashcards and keep doing them daily until you can near-instananeously pull all 100ish sentences out of your ass. If you have these sentences and you can pronounce most of them correctly, you will amaze your friends – locals and non alike. All these sentences are colloquializations I’ve picked up from native speakers. I don’t make this crap up. Guessing is for people who want to speak a language like an idiot. Copying isn’t good for tests and papers, but is the absolutely best way for learning languages. Don’t say what they tell you to say, say what they say. And don’t be discouraged if sometimes someone tells you one of these things is a bit strange. Thats crap too. Colloquialized language doesn’t always follow grammar textbook rules. But thats ok too because we don’t like textbooks right?
There are a few really simple expressions using the word ‘ทัน’ that are useful in a number of situations.
Let’s look at some easy examples first: If you don’t already know these – you need them in your SRS.
อ่านไม่ทัน this is a really good one – it might mean any of the following depending on the situation -
ฟังไม่ัทัน – Also quite useful -
ไปไม่ทัน
And here are some longer sentences to give you some context
เคย is another one of those super-necessary words. Lets see how it works.
A: เคยไป(เที่ยว)อเมริกามั้ย ?
B: ไม่เคย จะไปได้ยังไง ไม่มีเงินเลย
A: Have you ever been to the US?
B: No way. How could I? I’m broke.
The structure works as follows:
เคย Verb ไหม / มั้ย
Have you ever eaten __________?
เคยกิน _____ มั้ย
If yes, you can simply say ‘ เคย ‘
If no – ‘ ไม่เคย ‘
More Examples:
Remember I’m going to use as little grammatical jargon as possible.
Expressing things such as…
This is fairly simple and very useful in making yer speech more ธรรมชาติ.
Theres plenty of useful ways to use this.
Try to work out how to say the following:
Amusing Real-Life Example
มีเพื่อนคนหนึ่ง เขากินเป็ปซี่
Lets break that down
มีเพื่อนคนหนึ่ง เขากินเป็ปซี่ I have this friend who drinks pepsi….
แบบ ว่ากินแทนน้ำเปล่าเลย like, as in ..she drinks it instead of water..
เราเลยคิดว่า And, well…I think…
เราไม่อยากให้เขากินมาก I don’t want them to drink so much (of it)…
กลัวเป็นอัตราย because I’m worried it might be dangerous(correct sp = อันตราย)
มีวิธีไหนให้เขากินน้ำเปล่าบ้าง is there some way I can get them to drink some water
เพราะบอกเขาแล้ว because I’ve told them already….
เขาบอกว่าทำไม่ได้ and she said she can’t …
เขากินน้ำเปล่าวันไม่ถึงแก้วเลย she seriously doesn’t even drink 1 glass of water a day
Taken from th.yahoo.answers