Collins Dictionaries - Thai Visual Dictionary: A Photo Guide to Everyday Words and Phrases in Thai

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Whether youre on holiday or staying for a slightly longer period of time, your Collins Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find exactly what you need, when you need it. With over a thousand clear and helpful images, you can quickly locate the vocabulary you are looking for. The Visual Dictionary includes:

• 10 chapters arranged thematically, so that you can easily find what you need to suit the situation
• images illustrating essential items
• YOU MIGHT SAY common phrases that you might want to use
• YOU MIGHT HEAR common phrases that you might come across
• VOCABULARY common words that you might need
• YOU SHOULD KNOW tips about local customs or etiquette

USING YOUR COLLINS VISUAL DICTIONARY The points set out below will help to make sure that your Collins Visual Dictionary gives you as much help as possible when using Thai: 1)How to express politeness When speaking Thai it is often necessary to add small words called particles to the end of your sentences to convey politeness. Men add the word krp and women add the word k.

Polite Thai speech is peppered with these particles, but not always at the end of every utterance. It is advisable to use them as much as possible until you get the feel for them. In some of the example sentences in this book they have been included already. For example, a man saying thank you would say krp kun krp and a woman saying hello would say s wt dee k. Note that the particle used by women changes to a high tone when it is added to a question, so a woman saying sorry? would say rai n k?. 2)Personal pronouns There are a large number of different personal pronouns in Thai.

The polite first person pronouns (I/me) differ for men and women; men say pm and women say chn or the more formal d chn. The word ko can be used as the third person pronoun for both men and women (he and she), and is sometimes used to refer to more than one person (they). The polite second person pronoun (you) is kun. This can also be added before someones name as an honorific prefix. 3)Classifiers Classifiers are an important feature of Thai and are often mandatory when using a noun with a numeral or when referring to a specific noun. For example, one student is nk rian nung kon.

Here, nk rian is the noun meaning student but the classifier for people (kon) must be added after the number when specifying the number of students. There are many different classifiers in Thai, used for different types of objects. A useful general classifier is an, which can be used to count or pinpoint just about any small object for which you dont know the correct classifier. For example, an ne to ri krp/k (how much is this one?). 4)Tones Thai is a tonal language, meaning that each word is pronounced with a certain pitch. Changing the tone will change the meaning of the word.

Thai has five tones, and since it also makes the distinction between long and short vowels, there is effectively a long and short version of each tone. You can listen to the free audio resource to get acquainted with the long and short sounds, many of which have been transcribed in this book using double vowels (i.e. aa would be a longer sound than a). The rules for figuring out the tones in Thai script are complicated, but the pronunciation guide under every entry in this book marks the tones above the vowels in each syllable, as summarised in the following table:

TONE NAME	SIGN	PITCH LEVEL	EXAMPLE	MEANING
mid	no sign added	mid level	mai	mic
low	` (above the letter)	low falling	mi	new
falling	(above the letter)	high falling	mi	not
high	(above the letter)	high rising	mai	wood
rising	(above the letter)	low falling-rising	mi	silk

FREE AUDIO We have created a free audio resource to help you learn and practise the Thai words for all of the images shown in this dictionary. The Thai words in each chapter are spoken by native speakers, giving you the opportunity to listen to each word twice and repeat it yourself. www.collinsdictionary.com/resources NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS As the built-in fonts available on Kindles dont fully support Thai text, this book will display best on Kindle devices using Garuda TTF font. www.collinsdictionary.com/resources NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS As the built-in fonts available on Kindles dont fully support Thai text, this book will display best on Kindle devices using Garuda TTF font.

This is available to download free online and can be installed by adding all 4 .ttf font files into your Kindles fonts folder.

Whether youre going to be visiting Thailand, or even staying there for a while, youll want to be able to chat with people and get to know them better. Being able to communicate effectively with acquaintances, friends, family, and colleagues is key to becoming more confident in Thai in a variety of everyday situations. umbrella rm 1. green se kaw 2. red se dairng 4. yellow se luang 5. white se kao 6. black se dam Hello. / s wt dee krp/k Hi! / s wt dee krp/k Good morning. run s wt Good afternoon. / s wt dee krp/k Good night. raa dtree s wt See you soon. lew jer gan See you tomorrow. jer gan prng ne Bye! laa grn Good luck! chhk dee