Monday, June 19, 2006

Thai stuff - Word of the day and the Second letter of the alphabet

So how are you anyway?

HOW ARE YOU? (ARE YOU GOOD?)

สบายดีไหมคร่บ - Note that between the first consonant and the second there are no vowels. This because the vowel is assumed.

Sabai Dee Mai (basically means "feeling good?")

I think this must have been the second sentance I learnt.


- Kor Khai - The Second letter of the Thai alphabet. Kor has a Rising tone and Khai has a Low tone. Kor Khai is also a Low class consonant. There are three classes of consonant and this is one of the governing factors which gauges tone to a word. I forgot to mention in the last Thai letters post that Gor Gai is a Middle Class consonant.

As of my next entry I will be focusing on each individual letter so the word of the day will be a word that starts with the selected letter of the alphabet.

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