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Thai Ending Particles, na and ah Posted by palmisano on Nov 16, 2010
I honestly find ending particles pretty easy, despite there being no comparable words for them in English. When you speak English, you use tones to express emotion or add extra meaning. Yeap, English is to an extent a tonal language! Really? (rising tone) Really. (low tone) But in Thai, you use ending particles to adjust…
Thai Ending Particles, krap and ka Posted by palmisano on Nov 13, 2010
When learning Thai, one of the very first things you learn are the words ครับ (krap) and ค่ะ (ka). For me, ครับ was the very first Thai word I learned – and I still remember the day. As you should already know, ครับ is for boys and ค่ะ is for girls.
Let’s Go Camping! Part 3 of 3 Posted by palmisano on Nov 9, 2010
Anyway, now that you’ve made peace with the leeches you’re truly ready to go camping (ไปแคมป์ปิ้ง). First, you select a good spot and pitch your tent (เต้นท์). A high dry sunny area is great to avoid leeches. Then you splay out your sleeping bag (ถุงนอน).
Lets Go Camping! Part 2 of 3 Posted by palmisano on Nov 6, 2010
But by far the worst you’ll ever run into are the darn leeches (ทาก). Typically you’ll only find them in areas well traveled, and they especially like to come out when the ground is wet (such as after a recent rain). In the US we only have leeches in the water, but over here, these…
Let’s Go Camping! Part 1 of 3 Posted by palmisano on Nov 4, 2010
Camping is always fun and a great way to get away from it all. This post will go over the basic vocabulary for camping, and give you a few tips along the way.
Food Poisoning part 2 of 2 Posted by palmisano on Oct 28, 2010
Your body might also raise its temperature, giving you a fever. To say you have a fever (ไข้), just say ผมเป็นไข้. Make sure you use the right tone, or you’ll end up declaring yourself an egg (ไข่). Now if someone asks you whats wrong, you should answer กินอาหารเป็นพิษ (literally ‘I ate poisoned food’). For light…
Food Poisoning part 1 of 2 Posted by palmisano on Oct 23, 2010
Thailand is very much lawless when it comes to food and health regulations. Many Thai people neither understand foodborne illness, nor do they see a financial benefit in disposing of otherwise questionable food. Not to mention all the farming chemicals they use that have been banned in western countries!