Preface

This Mini Book for Cross - Cultural Learning "Learning Thai to English" series, are designed for friends from foreign to learn Thai Language for the initial communication, in these mini book include of basic vocabulary and phrases in Thai letters and the way how to read in English letters, easy for everyone to say. In this series include of five volumes :

1. How to say 2. Pictionary 3. Market 4. Eat in Thailand 5. Time and Special Day

I hope the Mini Book for Cross-Cultural Learning “Learning Thai to English” are useful to my friends, who are interested and want to speak Thai language and you can communicate with the people in Thailand, happily. Arunrat Bamrungchit

Contents

Months of the Year……….………………………………………1

Days of the Week………………………………………………….3

Thailand Festivals…………………………………………………4

Exercises……………………………………………………………8-10

Reference……………………………………………………………11

Author………………………………………………………………..12

TIMES & SPECIAL DAY

Months of the Year

One of the easy things about learning the months of the year in Thai is that the endings are very logical.

Months ending with "yon" have 30 days.

Months ending with "kom" have 31 days.

January มกราคม ma ga ra kom

February กุมภาพันธ์ goom pa pun

March มีนาคม mee na kom

April เมษายน may sa yon

May พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom

June มถุินายน mi tu na yon

July กรกฎาคม ga ra ga dar kom

August สิงหาคม sing ha kom

September กันยายน kun yar yon

October ตุลาคม too lar kom

November พฤศจกิายน preu sa ji gar yon

December ธันวาคม tun wa kom

NOTES:

Both January and July have

two ways of being pronounced:

January: ma-ga-ra-kom and mok-ga-ra-kom July: ga-ra-ga-da-kom and ga-ruk-ga-da-kom

In every-day speech, the word duean for month

is often prefixed and the last syllable is left out.

For example: January = duean ma-ga-ra

Days of the Week

"Day" means "wun" in Thai. Everytime you want

to say the name of the day, you should start

with the word "wun" first.

For example: Monday = wun jun (day moon)

Monday วันจันทร์ wun jun

Tuesday วันอังคาร wun ung-kan

Wednesday วันพุธ wun poot

Thursday วันพฤหสับดี wun pa-rue-hut-

sa-bor-dee

Friday วันศุกร์ wun sook

Saturday วันเสาร์ wun sao

Sun วันอาทติย์ wun ar-tit

In the every day life, we don't really say Thursday that long. We usually shorten it to "wun pa-rue-hut" so it is easier to say and remember.

Thailand Festivals

There are many beautiful festivals in Thailand throughout the year.

วันปีใหม่

New Year's Day. (wun bee mai)

มาฆบูชา

Makha Puja. (ma ka boo-cha)

ตรุษจีน

Chinese New Year. (dtoot jeen)

วันจักรี

Chakri Day. (wun jug-gree)

สงกรานต์

Songkran. (song garn)

วสิาขบูชา

Visakha Puja. (wi sa ka boo-cha)

พธีิแรกนาขวัญ

Royal Ploughing Ceremony. (pi-tee raek na kwan)

เข้าพรรษา

Buddhist Lent. (kow pun-sa)

วันแม่

Mother's Day. (wun mae)

วันปิยมหาราช

Chulalongkorn Day. (wun pi-ya maha-rat)

ลอยกระทง

Loy Krathong. (loi ga-tong)

วันพ่อ

Father's Day. (wun por)

วันรัฐธรรมนูญ

Constitution Day. (wun rat-ta tum-ma noon)

Exercise 1

What month? .............................. มกราคม ma ga ra kom

February กุมภาพันธ์ .........................................

March มีนาคม ..........................................

............................. เมษายน may sa yon

........................ พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom

June มถุินายน ...................................... .............................. กรกฎาคม ga ra ga dar kom

August สิงหาคม ....................................... ......................... กันยายน kun yar yon

.............................. ตุลาคม too lar kom

November พฤศจกิายน ..................................................

................................. ธันวาคม tun wa kom

Exercise 2

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References

http://www.learningthai.com/ http://www.rawaimuaythai.com/Thai_language.html http://womenlearnthai.com/ http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/resources/learning-thai/ http://www.101languages.net/thai/ http://www.transparent.com/learn-thai/#.UhNrbUc5M5s http://www.easystudythai.com/ http://www.learnthaistyle.com/

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