Speak Thai Volume 2 Grammar

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Speak Thai Volume 2 Grammar

Speak Thai Volume 2 covers more fundamental grammar, language and word understanding you need to know to speak Thai successfully. Aspects of grammar are introduced in either distinct segments at the beginning of a chapter or are explained as and when they crop up in words and phrases. Whilst the list below may look daunting, rest assured, these aspects of grammar and word use are covered in a simple, interesting and easy to understand way.

NUMBERS, THE CALENDAR AND TIME 

  1. Numbers, the calendar and time
  2. Tone practice
  3. Numbers: Use of Roman and Thai script numbers in Thai society
  4. Numbers: The use of ‘et’ rather than ‘neung’ to indicate 1
  5. Numbers: The word for ‘two’ when speaking on the telephone
  6. Numbers: The number nine, word for progress and auspicious numbers explained
  7. Numbers: Colloquial pronunciation of ‘yip’ numbers 20-29
  8. Numbers: Colloquial way of expressing 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.
  9. Numbers: How to express ordinal number
  10. Classifiers: Using classifiers with numbers
  11. Classifiers: The 20 classifiers you should know
  12. Classifiers: When noun and classifier are the same
  13. Classifiers: Using the general classifier ‘an’
  14. Time: Telling the time
  15. Time: Explaining the two different ways of expressing am times
  16. Time: Colloquial way of saying 1 pm
  17. Time: How the origins of Thai time keeping contribute to Thai time names
  18. Time: Use of ‘dtorn nee’
  19. Time: Use / non use of ‘nah-tee’
  20. Time: Words used to indicate degrees of time
  21. Calendar: Use of ‘wan nee’ when asking the time
  22. Calendar: How number of days in a month can help you remember how each month name ends
  23. Calendar: How end of month words omitted in everyday speech
  24. Calendar: How to express dates in Thai
  25. Time periods: Use of ‘dtorn’ to indicate a period of time
  26. Time periods: Combining time periods with day parts
  27. Time periods: Determining whether this and that words ‘nee’ or ‘nan’ are high tone or falling tone
  28. Time periods: Early and late words
  29. Time periods: Way of saying today, tomorrow, yesterday, everyday
  30. Time periods: This, next, last words
  31. Time periods: Indicating something happened a specific time ago
  32. Time periods: Indicating something will happen at a specific time in the future
  33. Time periods: Using ‘ny eek’

AROUND TOWN

  1. Around town
  2. Shopping: Use of ‘bahng’ in question words
  3. Shopping: Use of ‘an-nee’ and ‘nee’ to indicate this
  4. Shopping: Use of ‘wah’ after verbs ‘kit’, ‘poot’, and ‘bork’
  5. Shopping: Use of ‘rork’ when contradicting what has been said
  6. Shopping: Meaning and use of ‘cheui, cheui’
  7. Shopping: Thai words meaning change – money related and general
  8. Shopping: Positive word intensifiers – ‘mahk’, ‘jing jing’, ‘jang leui’, ‘mahk leui’
  9. Shopping: Negative word intensifiers
  10. Clothes: Use of want words ‘yahk’ and ‘yahk dy’
  11. Clothes: Expressing something is just right
  12. Clothes: Words for short object and short person
  13. Clothes: ‘To try’ words and phrases
  14. Clothes: Use of ‘gwah’ with adjectives to indicate an increased degree of a characteristic
  15. Clothes: Use of ‘noy gwah’ with adjectives to indicate a decreased degree of a characteristic
  16. Colours: Use of Thai word for colour ‘see’ as a noun and verb
  17. Colours: Explanation of composition of Thai colour names
  18. Colours: Words used to indicate light or dark color
  19. Fruit: Words used to indicate quantities
  20. Fruit: Use of ‘gi-loh’ and ‘loh’ to indicate kilogram
  21. Fruit: Use of classifiers when buying fruit
  22. Getting your haircut: Three different Thai words for ‘wash’
  23. The post office: Use of classifiers when asking for stamps
  24. Hotels: Explanation of words ‘horng deeo’ and ‘horng koo’ when asking for room
  25. Hotels: Use of ‘wan la’ and ‘keun la’
  26. Hotels: Use of ‘deeo’ or ‘neung’
  27. Hospital: Use of pre-fix ‘mor’ when addressing doctors
  28. Hospital: Explanation of non use of ‘I’ and ‘have’ when describing symptoms
  29. Hospital: Use of ‘reu seuk’ (feel) to describe emotions and feelings
  30. Hospital: Words used to describe various emotional states
  31. Hospital: Use of formal an informal words to describe vomiting
  32. Hospital: Colloquial way of saying hospital
  33. Hospital: Frequency words
  34. Hospital: ‘Keui’ (used to) and ‘my keui’ (have never) ) word meaning and usage

GETTING ABOUT

  1. Travel: Explanation of formal and informal words for traffic light
  2. Travel: Even and odd numbered days -‘wan kee’ and ‘wan koo’
  3. Travel: Use and meaning of ‘roo’ and ‘roo jak’
  4. Travel: Use and meaning of ticket names ‘bat’ and ‘dtua’
  5. Travel: Ways of expressing arriving
  6. Travel: ‘nang’ and ‘tee nang’
  7. Travel: Use of ‘rot’ and classifier word for vehicle ‘kan’ when talking about buses
  8. Travel: Use of ‘kon’ and classifier word ‘kon’
  9. Travel: Using the word ‘gap’ to say ‘with’ and ‘and’
  10. Travel: Explanation and use of word ‘tang mot’
  11. Giving directions: Importance of distinguishing pronunciation of ‘lang’ (behind) from ‘lahng’ below
  12. Giving directions: Use of reduplication to distinguish between word ‘gly’ (far) and ‘gly’ (near)
  13. Giving directions: Explanation and use of stop words ‘yut’ and ‘jort’
  14. Giving directions: Use of ‘mee’ to mean have and there is
  15. Giving directions: Explanation of Thai words for East and West
  16. Giving directions: Explanation of word ‘chiang’ in direction words NW, SW

EATING OUT, TELEPHONE CONVERSATION AND THAIGLISH 

  1. Going out for a meal: Use of phrase ‘por ja roo-jak’ when asking for information from a person
  2. Going out for a meal: Using ‘gor dy’ to show how easy going you are
  3. Going out for a meal: Examples of phrase ‘gor dy’ in use
  4. Going out for a meal: Explanation of idiomatic expression ‘a-ry dee’ when being asked what you would like to order
  5. Going out for a meal: Use of words ‘sang’, ‘rap’ and ‘ow’ when being asked what you would like to order
  6. Going out for a meal: Ordering and the use of classifiers
  7. Going out for a meal: Key classifier words
  8. Going out for a meal: Non use of word ‘noy’ (little) with request word ‘kor’ when ordering a specific quantity
  9. Going out for a meal: Explanation of word ‘ruam’ / ‘ruam mit’ and use
  10. Menu decoding: Use of ‘nah’ and ‘man’ in one plate rice dish names
  11. Paying the bill: Words you can use to get the attention of serving staff
  12. Paying the bill: Use of word ‘noo’ as name (rat) and as affectionate term when addressing young child
  13. Paying the bill: Explanation of word origin and meaning of ‘chek bin’
  14. Paying the bill: Explanation of word origin and meaning of ‘gep dtang’
  15. Toilets: Use of the word ‘bpuat’ when describing the need to go to the toilet
  16. Telephoning: Explanation of word ‘toh-ra-sap’ as being both noun and verb
  17. Telephoning: Explanation of ‘toh-ra-sap’ becoming ‘toh’ in everyday speech
  18. Telephoning: ‘Ror sak kroo’ and ‘dee-o’ use
  19. Miscellaneous grammar: Gor
  20. Miscellaneous grammar: Conjunctions - and, and / with, and then, because, but
  21. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating the frequency of an activity – always, usually, never
  22. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating intended action – must / need, should, probably, might, perhaps
  23. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same / not the same
  24. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – similar / not similar
  25. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same as / different
  26. Thaiglish: Explanation of 14 key characteristics with examples

LIFE IN RURAL THAILAND 

  1. Animals: Explanation that word for buffalo is also a derogatory term
  2. Waking up in a Thai village: Use of ‘ahb-nam’ and ‘ahb’
  3. Waking up in a Thai village: Explanation of word ‘peuan bahn’
  4. Food gathering activities: Explanation of word ‘gep’ an usage
  5. Weather: Difference in meaning and use of words for cold ‘yen’ and ‘naow’
  6. Thai values: Explanation of ‘nam jy’
  7. Thai values: Explanation of ‘kwahm ga-than yoo’
  8. Thai values: Explanation of ‘sam neuk bun kun’
  9. Thai values: Explanation of ‘nap teu’
  10. Thai values: Explanation of ‘jy yen’
  11. Thai values: Explanation of ‘gehng jy’
  12. Thai values: Explanation of ‘riap roy’
  13. Thai values: Explanation of ‘torn dtua’
  14. Thai values: Explanation of ‘su-pahp’
  15. Thai values: Explanation of ‘sa-nuk’
  16. Thai values: Explanation of ‘sa-bai’

TRANSLITERATION GUIDE 

  1. Phonetic transliteration: Low class consonants
  2. Phonetic transliteration: Mid class consonants
  3. Phonetic transliteration: High class consonants
  4. Phonetic transliteration: Short vowels
  5. Phonetic transliteration: Long vowels


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