Speak Isaan Thai Volume 2 Grammar

Thai - Hello

Isaan Thai - I drink beer

 Thai - What is your name?

 Isaan Thai - We like you

 Thai - I want a beer Chang

 Isaan Thai - I miss you

 Thai - Can we meet again?

 Isaan Thai - I'll phone you tomorrow

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Speak Isaan Thai Vol. 2 Grammar

Speak Isaan Thai Volume 2 covers more fundamental grammar, language and word understanding you need to know to speak Isaan Thai successfully. Aspects of grammar are introduced in either distinct segments at the beginning of a chapter or are explained as and when they crop up in words and phrases. Whilst the list below may look daunting, rest assured, these aspects of grammar and word use are covered in a simple, interesting and easy to understand way.

NUMBERS, THE CALENDAR AND TIME 

1. Numbers, the calendar and time
2. Tone practice
3. Numbers: Use of Roman and Thai script numbers in Thai society
4. Numbers: The use of ‘et’ rather than ‘neung’ to indicate 1
5. Numbers: The word for ‘two’ when speaking on the telephone
6. Numbers: The number nine, word for progress and auspicious numbers explained
7. Numbers: Colloquial pronunciation of ‘yip’ numbers 20-29
8. Numbers: Colloquial way of expressing 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.
9. Numbers: How to express ordinal number
10. Classifiers: Using classifiers with numbers
11. Classifiers: The 20 classifiers you should know
12. Classifiers: When noun and classifier are the same
13. Classifiers: Using the general classifier ‘an’
14. Time: Telling the time
15. Time: Explaining the two different ways of expressing am times
16. Time: Colloquial way of saying 1 pm
17. Time: How the origins of Thai time keeping contribute to Thai time names
18. Time: Use of ‘dtorn nee’
19. Time: Use / non use of ‘nah-tee’
20. Time:Words used to indicate degrees of time
21. Calendar: Use of ‘wan nee’ when asking the time
22. Calendar: How number of days in a month can help you remember how each month name ends
23. Calendar: How end of month words omitted in everyday speech
24. Calendar: How to express dates in Isaan Thai
25. Time periods: Use of ‘dtorn’ to indicate a period of time
26. Time periods: Combining time periods with day parts
27. Time periods: Early and late words
28. Time periods: Way of saying today, tomorrow, yesterday, everyday
29. Time periods: This, next, last words
30. Time periods: Indicating something happened a specific time ago
31. Time periods: Indicating something will happen at a specific time in the future
32. Time periods: Using ‘ny eek’

AROUND TOWN

1. Around town
2. Shopping: Use of ‘bahng’ in question words
3. Shopping: Use of ‘an-nee’ and ‘nee’ to indicate this
4. Shopping: Use of ‘wah’ after verbs ‘keut’, ‘wow’, and ‘bork’
5. Shopping: Use of ‘dork’ when contradicting what has been said
6. Shopping: Meaning and use of ‘berng seu, seu’
7. Shopping: Isaan Thai words meaning change – money related and general
8. Shopping: Positive word intensifiers – ‘lai’, ‘ee-lee’, ‘tae tae’, ‘leui’
9. Shopping: Negative word intensifiers
10. Clothes: Use of want words ‘yahk’ and ‘yahk dy’
11. Clothes: Expressing something is just right
12. Clothes: Words for short object and short person
13. Clothes: ‘To try’ words and phrases
14. Clothes: Use of ‘gua’ with adjectives to indicate an increased degree of a characteristic
15. Clothes: Use of ‘noy gua’ with adjectives to indicate a decreased degree of a characteristic
16. Colours: Use of Isaan Thai word for colour ‘see’ as a noun and verb
17. Colours: Explanation of composition of Isaan Thai colour names
18. Colours: Words used to indicate light or dark color
19. Fruit: Words used to indicate quantities
20. Fruit: Use of ‘gi-loh’ and ‘loh’ to indicate kilogram
21. Fruit: Use of classifiers when buying fruit
22. Getting your haircut: Three different Isaan Thai words for ‘wash’
23. The post office: Use of classifiers when asking for stamps
24. Hotels: Explanation of words ‘horng deeo’ and ‘horng koo’ when asking for room
25. Hotels: Use of ‘wan la’ and ‘keun la’
26. Hotels: Use of ‘deeo’ or ‘neung’
27. Hospital: Use of pre-fix ‘mor’ when addressing doctors
28. Hospital: Explanation of non use of ‘I’ and ‘have’ when describing symptoms
29. Hospital: Use of ‘leu seuk’ (feel) to describe emotions and feelings
30. Hospital: Words used to describe various emotional states
31. Hospital: Use of formal an informal words to describe vomiting
32. Hospital: Colloquial way of saying hospital
33. Hospital: Frequency words
34. Hospital: ‘Keui’ (used to) and ‘bor keui’ (have never) ) word meaning and usage

GETTING ABOUT

1. Travel: Explanation of formal and informal words for traffic light
2. Travel: Use and meaning of ‘loo’ and ‘loo jak’
3. Travel: Use and meaning of ticket names ‘bat’ and ‘dtua’
4. Travel: Ways of expressing arriving
5. Travel: ‘nang’ and ‘tee nang’
6. Travel: Use of ‘rot’ and classifier word for vehicle ‘kan’ when talking about buses
7. Travel: Use of ‘kon’ and classifier word ‘kon’
8. Travel: Using the word ‘gap’ to say ‘with’ and ‘and’
9. Travel: Explanation and use of word ‘tang meut’
10. Giving directions: Importance of distinguishing pronunciation of ‘lang’ (behind) from ‘lahng’ below
11. Giving directions: Use of reduplication to distinguish between word ‘gy’ (far) and ‘gy’ (near)
12. Giving directions: Explanation and use of stop words ‘yut’ and ‘jort’
13. Giving directions: Use of ‘mee’ to mean have and there is
14. Giving directions: Explanation of Isaan Thai words for East and West
15. Giving directions: Explanation of word ‘siang’ in direction words NW, SW

EATING OUT, TELEPHONE CONVERSATION AND ISAAN THAIGLISH 

1. Going out for a meal: Use of phrase ‘por si loo-jak’ when asking for information from a person
2. Going out for a meal: Using ‘ga dy’ to show how easy going you are
3. Going out for a meal: Examples of phrase ‘ga dy’ in use
4. Going out for a meal: Explanation of idiomatic expression ‘ee-nyang dee’ when being asked what you would like to order
5. Going out for a meal: Use of words ‘sang’, ‘lap’ and ‘ow’ when being asked what you would like to order
6. Going out for a meal: Ordering and the use of classifiers
7. Going out for a meal: Key classifier words
8. Going out for a meal: Non use of word ‘noy’ (little) with request word ‘kor’ when ordering a specific quantity
9. Going out for a meal: Explanation of word ‘luam’ / ‘luam mit’ and use
10. Menu decoding: Use of ‘nah’ and ‘man’ in one plate rice dish names
11. Paying the bill: Words you can use to get the attention of serving staff
12. Paying the bill: Use of word ‘noo’ as name (rat) and as affectionate term when addressing young child
13. Paying the bill: Explanation of word origin and meaning of ‘chek bin’
14. Paying the bill: Explanation of word origin and meaning of ‘gep dtang’
15. Toilets: Use of the word ‘bpuat’ when describing the need to go to the toilet
16. Telephoning: Explanation of word ‘toh-la-sap’ as being both noun and verb
17. Telephoning: Explanation of ‘toh-la-sap’ becoming ‘toh’ in everyday speech
18. Telephoning: ‘Tah jak kaow’ and ‘dee-o’ use
19. Miscellaneous grammar: Gor
20. Miscellaneous grammar: Conjunctions - and, and / with, and then, because, but
21. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating the frequency of an activity – always, usually, never
22. Miscellaneous grammar: Indicating intended action – must / need, should, probably, might, perhaps
23. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same / not the same
24. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – similar / not similar
25. Miscellaneous grammar: Comparatives – same as / different
26. Isaan Thaiglish: Explanation of 14 key characteristics with examples

 LIFE IN RURAL ISAAN  

1. Animals: Explanation that word for buffalo is also a derogatory term
2. Waking up in a Isaan Thai village: Use of ‘ahb-nam’ and ‘ahb’
3. Waking up in a Isaan Thai village: Explanation of word ‘pian bahn’
4. Food gathering activities: Explanation of word ‘gep’ an usage
5. Weather: Difference in meaning and use of words for cold ‘yen’ and ‘naow’
6. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘nahm jy’
7. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘kuam ga-dtan yoo’
8. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘sam neuk bun kun’
9. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘nap teu’
10. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘jy yen’
11. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘gehng jy’
12. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘liap loy’
13. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘torn dtoh’
14. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘su-pahp’
15. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘muan’
16. Isaan Thai values: Explanation of ‘sam-bai’

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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