PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Birth Report
The district office in Khlong San, a numbered counter and the birth report to make within fifteen days: the hospital's letter, please; born on the fifteenth; the father's name and nationality; Jack Reed, American; mother Thai, the child's name; Mali Reed, the father's surname; the birth certificate, the person reporting signs here; and two copies, please: a form's words, the formal twins of the family's.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
The district office in Khlong San on a weekday morning in July, Mali asleep in the sling, the number called: the clerk and Jack are formal both ways with the polite word; Nam answers the clerk as a woman, formally.
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