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!