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🇹🇭 Thai · Advanced Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Viewing

Four flights up an old wooden house in Khlong San at four in the afternoon, Khun Nit opening the shutters: the stairs are rather steep; the floor is quite lovely, old wood; the kitchen is rather small; good enough, we eat at the pier; the bedroom's not very bright; open the shutters, the sun is on the river side; the water is not too strong, not too weak; we'll take it: the little words that measure an adjective.

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THE STORY

The fourth floor of an old wooden house in Khlong San, Thonburi, at four on a hot-season afternoon, the river in the window: Khun Nit says the woman's polite word and the woman's I; Jack speaks politely; Nam says the woman's polite word to the landlady.

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บันได ค่อนข้าง ชัน นะ คะ.ban-dai khâwn-khâang chan ná khá.The stairs are rather steep.
พื้น สวย ที เดียว ค่ะ. ไม้ เก่า.phúuen sǔay thii diao khâ. mái kào.The floor is quite lovely. Old wood.
ครัว ค่อนข้าง เล็ก ค่ะ.khrua khâwn-khâang lék khâ.The kitchen is rather small.
พอ ใช้ ได้ ครับ. กิน ที่ ท่า เรือ.phaw chái dâai khráp. kin thîi thâa ruea.Good enough. We eat at the pier.
ห้องนอน ไม่ ค่อย สว่าง ค่ะ.hâawng-naawn mâi khâwy sà-wàang khâ.The bedroom's not very bright.
เปิด หน้าต่าง สิ คะ. แดด ด้าน แม่น้ำ.pòet nâa-tàang sì khá. dàaet dâan mâe-náam.Open the shutters. The sun is on the river side.
ไม่ แรง เกิน ไปmâi raeng koen painot too strong: not, strong, beyond, go
ไม่ แรง เกิน ไป, ไม่ เบา เกิน ไป ค่ะ.mâi raeng koen pai, mâi bao koen pai khâ.Not too strong, not too weak.
เรา เอา ครับ.rao ao khráp.We'll take it.