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The Thai Question Word That Isn’t – Yang Posted by palmisano on Jul 28, 2013
When we were children, we learned that there were only 5 question words and they all started with ‘W’: who, what, where, why, and when. And perhaps we were told that ‘how’ was also a question word, which was really just ‘who’ but with the ‘w’ on the other side of the word.
Arai means What(?) Posted by palmisano on Jul 8, 2013
During class the other week a student of mine pointed out that the word arai อะไร is confusing due to the many ways it can be used. It has two other meanings, roughly translating to ‘something’ and ‘anything’. But in some cases it doesn’t directly translate over very well, so the best way to learn…
Thai Question Word Slang Posted by palmisano on Apr 28, 2013
In English, there is both ‘spoken English’ and ‘written English’. We don’t realize it, but the way we write English isn’t always the same as how we speak it. In Thai this is taken to an even more extreme level…