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Thai SLANG

Slang is a big part of mastering Thai. Slag become an important step in taking your level from great to phenomenal. To build close relationship with Thai friends, slang and jokes is an factor that cannot be overseen as it helps promote understanding of the Thai culture as well as tiering people together. Slang of various forms are widely used on the different social medias, so that makes it a great place to study. There is no Thai language book that will teach you real Thai slang nor tell you where to study it other than “talk with your Thai friends”. That is true, you need to mingle and don’t be afraid to speak, but big effort are needed behind your computer screen studying Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social medias. Chatting is a great way of promoting slang. It is not only knowing the meaning of the slang, but even more important is when and where to use it, and when not to.

You will find out, that Thai’s tend to leave out words and/or write it in an “easier” or more lazy way to save time, e.g. they tend to leave out some of the more “difficult” consonants. In the beginning you will think that it must be a typo, but in most cases it’s not.

Here, let me give you a few examples:

Slang	Correct form	Pronunciation	Meaning
คบ/คาาาบ/คฟ	ครบ	[khrap]	(polite particle for male speakers)
เปน	เปน	[bpen]	(is)
สคน	สคญ	[sam kan]	(important)
วนจน	วนจนทร	[wan-jan]	(Monday)
จบๆ/จบ/มบๆ	จบๆ	[juub juub ]	(kiss kiss)
ก/กร	ก	[guu]	(I, used between close friends only)
เมง	มง	[mueng]	(you, used between close friends only)
เทว	เทยว	[tiaw]	(travel, tour)
ปย	ไป	[bpai]	(to go)
ก	ก	[gor]	(also, as well)
ชม	ใชไหม	[chai mai]	(right?)

And the list goes on and on, but now you get the picture why Thai’s chat the way they do. Another great way of learning is through proverbs.

Sources

https://www.thaiguide.dk/download/Straight-To-The-Point-Emil-Vohlert.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0yoUAagls_67jPH-dCdHquWbtiBEtGL7YJlwDBpBbCYdffvec2onbK3wg

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