LESSON NOTES

Basic Bootcamp #2
Talking about Your Ethnicity in Thai

CONTENTS
2 Thai
2 English
2 Romanization
2 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar

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 THAI

1. รวินท์ พร: สวัสดีคะ่ ดิฉนั ชื�อรวินท์ พรค่ะ ดิฉนั เป็ นคนไทยค่ะ

2. ไรอัน: สวัสดีครับ ผมชื�อไรอันครับ ผมเป็ นคนอเมริ กนั ครับ

ENGLISH

1. RAWINPORN: Hello, my name is Rawinporn. I'm Thai.

2. RYAN: Hello, my name is Ryan. I'm American.

ROMANIZATION

1. RÁ-WIN- sà-wàt-dii khâ. dì-chǎn chûue rá-win-phaawn khâ. dì-chǎn bpen

PHAAWN: khon-thai khâ.

2. RAI-AN: sà-wàt-dii khráp. phǒm chûue rai-an khráp. phǒm bpen khon-à-
mee-rí-gan khráp.

VOCABULARY

Thai R omanization English C lass

particle added at the

end of the sentence
or phrase in order to
ค่ะ khâ increase the level of particle

politeness when the

speaker is female

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 สวัสดี sà-wàt-dii Hello. expression

I (when the speaker

ผม phǒm is male) Noun

คนไทย khon-thai Thai noun

I (when the speaker

ดิฉนั dì-chǎn is female) pronoun

particle added at the

end of the sentence
or phrase in order to
ครับ khráp increase the level of particle

politeness when the

speaker is a male

ชื�อ chûue to name noun

to be able to, to be,

เป็ น bpen alive verb

SAMPLE SENTENCES

เจอกันใหม่พรุ่งนี � สวัสดีคะ่ ขอบคุณมากค่ะ

jooe gan mài phrûng-níi sà-wàt-dii khâ khàawp-khun mâak khâ

"See you again tomorrow. Good-bye." "Thank you very much."

สวัสดีครับ ไม่ได้ เจอกันตังนาน

� สวัสดีครับคุณศิริพร
sà-wàt-dii khráp mâi-dâi jooe gan dtâng-naan sà-wàt-dii khráp, khun sì-rí-phaawn.

"Hello! Long time no see!" "Hello, Ms. Siriporn."

ผมจะรักคุณตลอดไป ผมทานขนมปั ง
phǒm jà rák khun dtà-làawt-bpai. phǒm thaan khà-nǒm-bpang.

"I will always love you." "I eat bread."

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คุณศิริพรเป็ นคนไทย คนไทยใจดี
khun sì-rì-phaawn bpen khon-thai. khon-thai jai-dii.

"Ms. Siriporn is Thai." "Thais are kind."

ดิฉนั เป็ นครูคะ่ ดิฉนั ทานข้ าว

dì-chǎn bpen khruu khâ dì-chǎn thaan khâao.

"I'm a teacher." "I eat rice." / "I have a meal."

สบายดีไหมครับ ไม่เป็ นไรครับ

sà-baai-dii mǎi khráp mâi-bpen-rai khráp

"How are you?" "No problem."

คุณชื�ออะไร ดิฉนั ชื�อศิริพรค่ะ

khun chûue à-rai dì-chǎn chûue sì-rí-phaawn khâ

"What is your name?" "My name is Siriporn."

ดิฉนั เป็ นนักท่องเที�ยว ผมเป็ นนักเทนนิส

dì-chǎn bpen nák-thâwng-thîiao. phǒm bpen nák-then-nís.

"I am a tourist." "I'm a tennis player."

ดิฉนั เป็ นคนไทย

dì-chǎn bpen khon-thai.

"I'm a Thai."

GRAMMAR

The Focus of This Bootcamp Lesson Is to Teach You How to Talk about Your Ethnicity.

To talk about your ethnicity, you add the word for "person," khon, in front of the name of a
country. Let's take a look at some examples with the country listed first, followed by the
ethnicity.

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For Example:

Thai "English"

thai "Thailand"

khon-thai "Thai"

áawt-sà-dtree-liia "Australia"

khon-áawt-sà-dtree-liia "Australian"

à-mee-rí-gaa "America"

khon-à-mee-rí-gan "American"

yîi-bpùn "Japan"

khon-yîi-bpùn "Japanese"

ang-grìt "England"

khon-ang-grìt "English"

jiin "China"

khon-jiin "Chinese"

Expressing Ethnicities

Here are some examples showing you how to express ethnicity in Thai.

For Example:

1. phûuak-rao bpen khon-à-mee-rí-gan khráp/khâ.

"We're American."

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2. khun bpen khon-yîi-bpùn khráp/khâ.
"You're Japanese."

Word Order in Simple Thai Sentences

The above sentences demonstrate the basic word order of a Thai sentence:

Subject + Verb + Object

This is the same as English sentence order.

For Example:

1. phǒm/dì-chǎn bpen khon-à-mee-rí-gan.

Literally, "I am American."
"I am American."

2. phǒm/dì-chǎn dùuem chaa.

Literally, "I – drink – tea."
"I drink tea."

3. khǎo phûut phaa-sǎa-yîi-bpùn.

Literally, "He – speaks – language – Japanese."
"He speaks Japanese."

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