2. 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
3. Contents
Months of the Year……….………………………………………1
Days of the Week………………………………………………….3
Thailand Festivals…………………………………………………4
Exercises……………………………………………………………8-10
Reference……………………………………………………………11
Author………………………………………………………………..12
4. 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
5. May พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom
June มิถุนายน 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 พฤศจิกายน 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
6. 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 วันพฤหัสบดี wun pa-rue-hut-
sa-bor-dee
Friday วันศุกร์ wun sook
Saturday วันเสาร์ wun sao
Sun วันอาทิตย์ 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.
7. 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)
11. Exercise 1
What month?
.............................. มกราคม ma ga ra kom
February กุมภาพันธ์ .........................................
March มีนาคม ..........................................
............................. เมษายน may sa yon
........................ พฤษภาคม preut sa pa kom
June มิถุนายน ......................................
.............................. กรกฎาคม ga ra ga dar kom
August สิงหาคม .......................................
......................... กันยายน kun yar yon
.............................. ตุลาคม too lar kom
November พฤศจิกายน ..................................................
................................. ธันวาคม tun wa kom
12. Exercise 2
Do you know, what is the festival?
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