Welcome to our FREE Thai learning article that is here every week at MuayThaiArt.com! Are you ready and prepared to learn another lesson today? Don’t worry. It’s gonna be really easy and simple. Right here we want you to learn Thai from the real dialogs used in by Thai people. No way will we tell you to learn the dialogs from some books that even Thai people don’t even use them that way.

To bargain in Thailand is really normal. But then you have to understand that bargaining won’t work anywhere. Normally we only bargain when we want to buy something from the street or the market that the prices can be flexible up to the seller or the owner. But, when you shopping in MiniMarts like 7 eleven or SuperMarkets or Malls, in which the prices have been fixed and stamped or whatever, please don’t bargain. It’s not going to work anyway.

Here I’m going to teach you how to bargain a bit. You might have to adapt these dialogs depends on which products you are buying and how much they are. These are the sentences I always use from the real situation:

How much is it? (Tao Rai Ka/Krap)
300 baht. (Sam Roi Baht)
Can you give me a discount? (Lod Dai Mai Ka/Krap)
If the seller says yes (Dai), that’s good. But if he or she says no (Mai Dai), you say:
Just a tiny discount, please. (this is not begging but it’s what we call negotiation in a polite way) (Lod Nid Nueng La Kan Na)
Then the seller would normally ask how much you prefer. (Tao Rai La)
Then you offer the price you want for example 250 baht (Song Roi Ha Sib Baht)
If he or she is still not ok with the price, just keep moving up a bit at a time like 260 baht and so on.

I’m sure that wasn’t too easy. The fact is normally women can do this better than men. So if you are a guy, just don’t worry if you can’t bargain to the lowest price. It’s like a gift of female I guess.

Have fun bargaining!

Welcome to our free Thai lessons right here in this blog. I hope you’ve enjoyed our lessons so far and we would like to continue with the lessons once a week. That’s not too much! You might not find it necessary to know Thai. But wait until to come and visit Thailand, maybe joining a Thai Boxing gym here.

But don’t freak out here! Of course you will be able to understand and follow up in training course because in many gyms nowadays there are also English speaking trainers or your own language like German, French, Dutch etc. But living outside the gym is a whole new experience. The only way you can communicate well with the locals is to speak Thai. That’s why we’re here.

Today’s phrase can be used in many situations. For example, It’s late and you and a group of friends want to go out for dinner and you want to ask your other friend if he want to go with you. How will you say it? Let’s take a look at the phrases used in this situation and then I’ll break them down for you. There might be some new words for you.

I’m hungry. Let’s go eat! = Hiw Laew. Pai Kin Kao Kan.
Yeah sure = Pai
Are you coming with, John? = Pai Duey Kan Mai John?
Yeah, just a sec! = Pai. Paep Nueng

Let’s take at look and the meaning of the new words.
Hiw = to be hungry
Kao = rice (we don’t say just “kin” that means “to eat” alone, we always add “Kao”)
Duey Kan or Kan = together
Pai = to go
Paep Nueng = for a short time, just a moment, just a second

I hope that wasn’t too hard. My trick of you is to say the phrases out loud to help memorizing them in heart. Don’t get to stress about it. At least choose the most important phrase to remember each week. And you will speak Thai in no time.

Hi guys! Are you ready for our Thai lesson today? Today’s dialog is how to ask a basic question “Who is she?” Basically you can use this everywhere, for example, you go to your friend’s party and you spot this beautiful girl and you wanna ask your friend who she is or maybe this beautiful girl is a star because people are taking pictures of her.

Let’s take a look at our dialog and then I’ll tell you what each sentence means and then a list of crucial vocabularies from this dialog. Let’s get started, shall we?

Pu Ying Kon Nun Klai? - Who is she?
Kon Nai? - Which one?
Kon Tee Suay Suay Ngai - The one that is so beautiful.
Ar…Peoan Chan/Pom Eng - Ar…she’s my friend.

Alright, that wasn’t too hard I suppose. Now I’ll break it down for you. There are many new words you need to know in this dialog. But remember you don’t need to memorize all the new word this time. Try to focus on the phrases and how to say them above.

Pu Ying = girl, woman
Kon = person, human
Nun = that
Klai = who
Nai = which, where
Suay = beautiful (we say it twice to indicate that she is really beautiful)
Peoan = friend

You might still remember that Chan and Pom is “I” for a woman or a man. Here I said Peoan Chan or Peoan Pom which mean my friend. So you can see that when Chan and Pom are following a noun, here is Peoan, they will become possessive pronoun “my”.

Ok I don’t want to take much about grammar. The most important is how to use it. But you can always comment and tell us what you want to learn here, we can change our way of lesson anytime if that would suit your need. Alright it’s time for us to leave. We’ll be back again for another lesson next week. See you then right here at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog!

It’s time for Speak of Thai. We are here to teach you how to speak Thai in the easiest way. The lesson we put here are so simple and easy to follow. We’re talking about tiredness today. Maybe after you work out or train for a long time and you’re really tired, how can you express that? How do you say it correctly in Thai?

Let’s set out a situation here. Let’s say you’re been training all day and your gang comes to ask you out with them. And you don’t want to go because you are too tired, so you tell them so. Here’s how you can say it.

The key word here is “tired”. In Thai we call it “Nueay”. Ok….it might sound weird and hard to pronounce. Just go “Nue-Ay” faster and faster until you can say it in one word. Practice make perfect…that’s so true here in this situation.

Ok let’s not waste time! Memorize and practice it as many times as you can.
John: Hey let’s go find something to eat! = “Pai-Ha-Arai-Kin-Kan”
Rick: No. I’m really tired today. = “Mai-la Wan-Nee-Nueay-Mak”

Let me break it down for you.
Pai = to go
Ha = to find
Arai = what, something
Kin = to eat
Kan = let’s…
Mai = No
Wan Nee = today
NUEAY = to be tired
Mak = lots, really, truly
That wasn’t too hard, was it? You can try my way saying it out loud for a few times to help memorizing. Or if you have your own method, please share with us and the other. Learning a new language is all about practicing, you gotta trust me that. I’ve learned 6 languages so far.

Thank you and Hope you stick with us and our articles. You can help improving the article or you can tell us what you want to know, whether Thai words or how to say something in Thai. See you next time!

Hi guys! Welcome back to our Speak of Thai article at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog. We are here every week to teach you just a little tiny bit of Thai language that will definitely be crucial for you someday. And if you can recall, about a month ago we already taught you how to count from 1 to 100 in Thai already. I think now is a good time to learn further numbers.

But I wanna begin with a little review of the previous lessons to make sure that you can remember every number. So I’m gonna teach you again from 1 to 1,000,000 how to call them in Thai. Don’t panic, it’s not that hard.

1 Nueng 20 Yeesib** 100 Nuengroi 1,000 Nuengpan
2 Song 30 Samsib 200 Songroi 2,000 Songpan
3 Sam 40 Seesib 300 Samroi 3,000 Sampan
4 See 90 Gaosib 400 Seeroi
5 Ha 900 Gaoroi 9,000 Gaopan
6 Hok
7 Jed 10,000 Nuengmuen
8 Paed 100,000 Nuengsan
9 Gao 1,000,000 Nuenglan
10 Sib

So do you get the idea? So how to say 1,234,567 baht (Thai currency) is Nuenglan-Songsan-Sammuen-Seepan-Haroi-Hoksib-Jed baht. Practice a lot by thinking of lots numbers and say them out loud in Thai. It might be hard a few first times, but trust me it’ll get easier.

Which main vocabulary you need to know here? Start memorizing the first one to ten, then the words for hundred, thousand, ten-thousand- hundred-thousand, and million which are Roi, Pan, Muen, San, and Lan.

The important rule of learning a new language is you gotta be patient! Don’t rush it. Someone can memorize all these in 5 mins, someone take hours. So that depends on each individual. It’s ok to be a little slow as long as you still can do it.

If you like our Thai lessons here, visit us again next week for the next lesson. Thank you for staying with us. Have a good one!