Learning Thai with Bart: Lesson28 – Thinglish Words
I have “stolen” this lesson from the excellent Learn Thai Podcast.
This is about words that you already know. If you know them in English, you will know them in Thai, because Thai people use the English word, but with the Thai accent. Hence “Thinglish”.
Unlike Learn Thai Podcast, I allow myself to comment some of these words.
ball bawn (the “l” is pronounced “n” in Thai. “Check Bill”, which is also a Thinglish word by the way, is pronounced “Check Bin”).
bank baeng
bar baa (“r” is difficult for Thai people, obviously)
battery baet-ter-rii (They insist on the last syllable: “riiiii”)
beer bia (see “bar”)
bonus bo-nat (this is a mystery to me: Thai people have much trouble with the “s” and the “t” at the end of a word. Although this is the same pronounciation as at the beginning of the word: “Thailand” and “Sukhumvit”, for instance, are words that don’t give them any trouble)
bungalow bang-ka-lo
cable khe-bern
cake khek
capsule khaep-suun
cartoon kaa-tuun (I like this one 
)
cheque chek
christmas krit-maat
cocaine kho-khen (sounds like “ai” are a problem)
cocktail khawk-theo (again)
computer khawm-phiw-ter
concert khawn-sert
copy kawp-pii
coupon khuu-pawng
fashion fae-chan
football fut-bawn
free frii (No Thai word for “free”. This is a western concept )
golf kawp
guitar kii-taa
ice cream ai-sa-kriim
jackpot jaek-phawt
jam yaem
jeans yiin
kilo ki-lo
lipstick lip-sa-tik (the problem with the double consonant like “st”: Thai people need to pronounce both letters separately)
macaroni ma-ka-ro-nii
microphone mai-khro-fon
microwave mai-khro-wep
motorcycle maw-ter-sai
night club nai khlap (many word are cut before the end: night becomes nai)
office awp-fit
percent per-sen
project pro-jek
remote rii-mot
sauce sawt
share chae
stamp sa-taem (again the problem with the 2 consonants: “st”)
taxi thaek-sii
tennis then-nit
typhoon tai-fun
vote wot (the famous “v” = “w”, like in “Sukhumvit” that they pronounce “Sukhumweet”)
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