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Isaan Thai - I drink beer

Isaan Thai Lady Says I Drink Beer

 Thai - What is your name?

Beautiful Thai Lady Asks What Is Your Name

 Isaan Thai - We like you

Isaan Thai Lady with Dog Says We Like You

 Thai - I want a beer Chang

Thai Elephant Says I Want a Beer Chang

 Isaan Thai - I miss you

Isaan Thai Children Say I Miss You

 Thai - Can we meet again?

Happy Thai Ladies Ask Can We Meet Again

 Isaan Thai - I'll phone you tomorrow

Isaan Thai Lady Says I'll Telephone You Tomorrow

 Thai - Good luck

Traditional Thai Lady Says Good Luck

Isaan Thai - How are you?

Isaan Thai Guitarplayer Says How Are You

Thai - I'm just looking

Thai Elephant Statue Says I'm Just Looking

Isaan Thai - Where do you come from?

Isaan Tha Girls Say Where Do You Come From

Thai - Please switch on the fan

 Thai Dancer Says Please Switch the Fan On

 Isaan Thai - You're welcome

 Isaan Thai Lady Says You're Welcome

 Thai - Where are the toilets?

Thai Man Says Where are the Toilets

Isaan Thai - Do you have a bottle opener?

Isaan Thai Lady Says Do You Have a Bottle Opener

Isaan Thai - Do you have a bottle opener?

Thai Hat Man Says Have You Eaten Yet

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Isaan Thai Lady Says I Drink Beer

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 Speak Isaan Thai Volume 2 Contents

When you buy Speak Isaan Thai Volume 2 you can be confident that you will get a fully rounded course that teaches important aspects of Isaan Thai conversation and grammar in an easy to follow, interesting, step by step process. The course has been expertly designed and structured to ensure that in the process of learning practical vocabulary and conversation within highly relevant situations you are taught the key grammar and language knowledge you need to know. You will learn the essential language foundations for Isaan Thai speaking success in all Isaan Thai conversations you participate in. 

 INTRODUCTION

  1. Welcome to Speak Isaan Thai Volume 2        
  2. Features
  3. Objectives of Speak Isaan Thai
  4. Tones
  5. Colloquial pronunciation
  6. About the book and DVD
  7. Using this book and DVD
  8. Referring to people from Isaan Thai land and the West
  9. The journey continues …

 NUMBERS, THE CALENDAR AND TIME

  1. Numbers, the calendar and time
  2. Tone practice
  3. Numbers: 1 - 10
  4. Numbers: 11 - 19
  5. Numbers: 20 - 29
  6. Numbers: 20 - 29 Colloquial
  7. Numbers: 30 - 100
  8. Numbers: 100 - 1,000,000,000
  9. Numbers: 100, 200, 1000, 2000 … 2,000,000,000
  10. Numbers: Examples of complex numbers
  11. Numbers: Ordinal
  12. Classifiers: Using classifiers with numbers
  13. Classifiers: The 20 classifiers you should know
  14. Classifiers: When noun and classifier are the same
  15. Classifiers : Some practical examples of classifier use
  16. Time: Quantifying time
  17. Time: Telling the time
  18. Time: 1 am - 6 am
  19. Time: 7 am - mid day
  20. Time: Visual summary of am clock times
  21. Time: 1 pm - 6 pm
  22. Time: 7 pm - midnight
  23. Time: Visual summary of pm clock times
  24. Time: The origins of Isaan Thai time clock words
  25. Time: How the origins of Thai time keeping contribute to Isaan Thai time names
  26. Time: What time is it?
  27. Time: Indicating degrees of time
  28. Time: The 24 hour clock
  29. Time: The 24 hour clock
  30. Time: A timeless culture
  31. Days: Days of the week
  32. Days: Asking what day it is
  33. Days: Days of the week, colours and superstitions
  34. Months: Month names
  35. Months: Asking what month it is
  36. Thai calendar: How to express dates in Isaan Thai
  37. Thai calendar: Thai calendar and lunar year
  38. Time periods: Day parts
  39. Time periods: Examples of day parts in use
  40. Time periods: Early and late  
  41. Time periods: Examples of early and late in use
  42. Time periods: Today, tomorrow, yesterday, everyday
  43. Time periods: Combining time period words with day part words
  44. Time periods: This, next, last
  45. Time periods: Indicating something happened a specific time ago
  46. Time periods: Indicating something will happen at a specific time in the future
  47. Time periods: Examples of this, next, last words in use
  48. Summary
  49. Develop and check your learning

AROUND TOWN

  1. Around town
  2. Tone practice
  3. Destinations: Recap A - Z
  4. Shopping
  5. Shopping: What are you buying?
  6. Shopping: Price
  7. Shopping: Things you can ask and say
  8. Bartering
  9. Bartering: Asking the price
  10. Bartering: Commenting on price
  11. Bartering: Asking for a discount
  12. Bartering: Bartering and agreeing a better price
  13. Bartering: Other things you may say to get a lower price
  14. Bartering: Commenting on the state of item to get a lower price
  15. Bartering: Things sellers may say to you
  16. Bartering: If you don’t want to buy
  17. Shopping: Paying for an item
  18. Shopping: Returning change
  19. Grammar: Word intensifiers
  20. Buying clothes
  21. Clothes: Dressing and undressing
  22. Clothes: Items of clothing
  23. Clothes: Sizes
  24. Clothes: ‘To try’ words and phrases
  25. Clothes: Commenting on size
  26. Clothes: Asking for a different size
  27. Colours: A - Z
  28. Colours: Dark / light colours
  29. Colours: Asking for a colour
  30. Fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices
  31. Fruit: Fruit names A - Z
  32. Fruits: Quantities
  33. Fruits: Asking how much a fruit costs
  34. Fruits: Indicating fruit you want
  35. Fruits: Indicating fruit quantities you want using classifiers
  36. Vegetables: A - Z
  37. Herbs and spices
  38. Vegetable / herb quantities
  39. Buying vegetables, herbs and spices
  40. Getting your haircut: Vocabulary
  41. Getting your haircut: Conversation
  42. The post office: Vocabulary
  43. The post office: Sending mail
  44. The post office: Asking for stamps
  45. Banks
  46. Photo development: Vocabulary
  47. Hotels: Vocabulary A - Z
  48. Hotels: Checking in
  49. Hotels: Requesting a room
  50. Hotels: Asking the price of a room
  51. Hotels: Asking to see the room
  52. Hotels: Asking if there are better rooms available
  53. Hotels: Indicating the length of your stay
  54. Hotels: Checking out
  55. Hospital: Vocabulary
  56. Hospital: Body parts A - Z
  57. Hospital: Pain
  58. Hospital: Common ailments
  59. Hospital: Bites, burns, cuts, stings and breaks
  60. Hospital: Describing the symptoms
  61. Hospital: Describing the symptoms (continued)
  62. Hospital: Frequency
  63. Hospital: Treatment
  64. Hospital: Saying you have an allergy
  65. Hospital: Getting better
  66. Dentist: Vocabulary and conversation
  67. Develop and check your learning

 GETTING ABOUT

  1. Getting about
  2. Tone practice
  3. Travel: The main forms of transport A - Z
  4. Travel: Road features
  5. Travel: Driving related words
  6. Filling up with petrol
  7. Parking
  8. Some road signs
  9. Taxi: Asking to be taken to a destination
  10. Taxi: Asking whether the taxi driver knows of a location
  11. Taxi: Asking about the likely duration of the journey
  12. Tuk tuk: Negotiating the fare
  13. Tuk tuk: Confirming the fare
  14. Tipping your taxi / tuk tuk driver
  15. Road travel: Protection by the spirits
  16. Bus travel
  17. Bus travel: Key words A - Z
  18. Bus travel: Finding the ticket office
  19. Bus travel: Getting details of journey
  20. Bus travel: Questions the ticket seller may ask
  21. Bus travel: What the ticket seller may say
  22. Bus travel: If no seats are available
  23. Bus travel: Buying tickets
  24. Giving directions: General
  25. Giving directions: Right and left directions
  26. Giving directions: In relation to other landmarks
  27. Giving directions: Street location
  28. Giving directions: Map
  29. Giving directions: Detailed directions to hotel
  30. Giving directions: Detailed directions to bar
  31. Giving directions: Detailed directions to post office
  32. Stop commands: General
  33. Stop commands: Examples of specific stop commands
  34. Asking directions: Lost
  35. Asking directions: Question types for getting directions
  36. Asking directions: General directions
  37. Asking directions: More specific directions
  38. Asking directions: Establishing distances
  39. Asking directions: North, south, east, west ...
  40. Develop and check your learning

 EATING OUT, TELEPHONE CONVERSATION AND ISAAN THAI GLISH

  1. Eating out, telephone conversation and Thaiglish
  2. Tone practice
  3. The mid-day meal
  4. Popular one dish meals
  5. Condiments
  6. Going out for a meal: Deciding on the restaurant
  7. Going out for a meal: Arriving at the restaurant
  8. Going out for a meal: Deciding what to order.
  9. Going out for a meal: Using ‘ga-dy’
  10. Going out for a meal: The mighty chilli and the famous Thai smile
  11. Going out for a meal: What the serving staff may ask
  12. Going out for a meal: Asking questions about the food on offer
  13. Going out for a meal: Ordering and the use of classifiers
  14. Going out for a meal: Key classifier words
  15. Going out for a meal: Asking for more
  16. Menu decoding: The secret to successful menu decoding
  17. Menu decoding: The method of cooking
  18. Menu decoding: The main ingredients
  19. Menu decoding: The food type and style of dish
  20. Menu decoding: Dishes on a typical menu
  21. Menu decoding: Menu decoding typical dishes exercise
  22. Menu decoding: Rice dishes
  23. Menu decoding: Menu decoding rice dishes exercise
  24. Menu decoding: Noodle dishes
  25. Drinks
  26. Paying the bill: Getting the attention of serving staff
  27. Paying the bill: Asking for the bill
  28. Paying the bill: The role of the sponsor
  29. Toilets: Finding the toilets
  30. Toilets: Toilet functions
  31. Telephoning: Key vocabulary
  32. Telephoning: Indicating an intention to telephone
  33. Telephoning: Arranging to meet up
  34. Telephoning: Conversation when phone is answered by someone else
  35. Telephoning: Conversation when the person you want to speak to isn’t there
  36. Telephoning: leaving a message
  37. Telephoning: Requesting to be put through to a telephone extension
  38. Telephoning: Problems with the line
  39. Miscellaneous grammar: ‘ga’
  40. Miscellaneous grammar: Conjunctions - and, and / with, and then, because, but
  41. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of conjunctions in use
  42. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating the frequency of an activity – always, usually, never
  43. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of indicating the frequency of an activity in use
  44. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating intended action – must / need, should, probably, might, perhaps
  45. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of indicating intended action words in use
  46. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same / not the same
  47. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of same / not the same in use
  48. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – similar / not similar
  49. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of similar / not similar in use
  50. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same as / different
  51. Miscellaneous grammar: Examples of same as / different in use
  52. Isaan Thaiglish: Introduction
  53. Isaan Thaiglish: 14 key characteristics with examples
  54. Develop and check your learning

LIFE IN RURAL ISAAN

  1. Life in rural Isaan
  2. Tone practice
  3. Countryside features: vocabulary
  4. Countryside features: Settlement types
  5. Animals: Domestic
  6. Animals: Wild
  7. Animals: Insects
  8. Houses: Names of rooms
  9. Houses: Features
  10. Houses: locations around a house
  11. Waking up in a Thai village: sleep / bedroom furnishing related vocabulary
  12. Waking up in a Thai village: washing / personal hygiene related vocabulary
  13. Waking up in a Thai village: personal hygiene, smelling bad
  14. The village environment: Common features you see
  15. The village environment: Animal enclosure types
  16. Rice farming: Introduction
  17. Rice farming: Rice farming activities
  18. Rice farming: The changing face of Thai rice farming
  19. Fishing: Vocabulary
  20. Fishing: Asking about catch
  21. Food gathering activities
  22. Weather: Seasons
  23. Weather: Type
  24. Weather: Results from rain
  25. Weather: General comments about climate
  26. Weather: Talking rain
  27. Weather: Talking about type of rain and climate
  28. Weather: Folksy expressions ./ sayings
  29. Music: Music, karaoke and morlam
  30. Music: ‘look tung’, ‘pehng peua see-wit’, ‘mor lam’ / ‘mor lam sing’
  31. Music: Live music vocabulary
  32. Isaan Thai values: ‘Nahm jy’
  33. Isaan Thai values: ‘Kuam ga-dtan yoo’
  34. Isaan Thai values: ‘Sam neuk bun kun’
  35. Isaan Thai values: ‘Nap teu’
  36. Isaan Thai values: ‘Jy yen’
  37. Isaan Thai values: ‘Gehng jy’
  38. Isaan Thai values: ‘Liap loy’
  39. Isaan Thai values: ‘Torn dtoh’
  40. Isaan Thai values: ‘Su-pahp’
  41. Isaan Thai values: ‘Muan’
  42. Isaan Thai values: ‘Sam-bai’
  43. Isaan Thai values: Summary
  44. Develop and check your learning

THE END IS STILL JUST THE BEGINNING

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TRANSLITERATION GUIDE

  1. Phonetic transliteration: Low class consonants
  2. Phonetic transliteration: Mid class consonants
  3. Phonetic transliteration: High class consonants
  4. Phonetic transliteration: Short vowels
  5. Phonetic transliteration: Long vowels

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