Hugh Leong One chief bugaboo that has plagued me in my endeavors to learn to read Thai is the numerous abbreviations scattered all about newspapers and magazines. I usually end up skipping them when I read, but as they are usually integral to the story line I am forced to look them up later. After a while … Read more
Thai verbs never change for tense. Learn how แล้ว, กำลัง, จะ, and เคย mark past, ongoing, future, and experience in real Thai sentences.
Thai place names carry real meaning. This guide decodes bang, buri, nakhon, chiang and doi, then translates Bangkok’s full 21-word ceremonial name.
Have you ever seen those brilliant kids in the national spelling bees? When given a word to spell, the first thing they ask for is the word’s origin. Knowing the “Latin”, or “Greek”, or any of the many other roots to our English words they immediately not only know the word’s basic meaning but they … Read more