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🇹🇭 Thai · Beginner Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 28 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Nam Paints the Name

In the boat shed, Nam repaints the old boat's name: what colour? red and gold, like before; the boat's name, Mae Nuan, Uncle Chai's mother's name; beautiful letters: colours, with the word for colour in front of each one.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

The boat shed at the pier in Bang Rak, an afternoon: Nam with her brushes at the old boat's bow, Jack beside her. Nam says the woman's polite word and her own name for I, and calls Jack with the word for an older sibling; Jack says the polite word for you with her name.

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สี อะไร คะ?sǐi à-rai kháwhat colour: colour, then what
พี่ แจ็ค, สี อะไร คะ?phîi jaek, sǐi à-rai khá?Jack, what colour?
สี แดง ครับ?sǐi daeng khráp?Red?
เหมือน เดิมmǔean doemlike before: the same as the original
สี แดง กับ สี ทอง ค่ะ. เหมือน เดิม.sǐi daeng kàp sǐi thawng khâ. mǔean doem.Red and gold, like before.
สี ขาว กับ สี น้ำเงิน ครับ.sǐi khǎao kàp sǐi náam-ngoen khráp.White and blue.
สี เขียว ไหม ครับ?sǐi khǐao mǎi khráp?Green?
เรือ ชื่อ อะไร ครับ?ruea chûue à-rai khráp?What's the boat's name?
แม่ นวล ค่ะ.mâe nuan khâ.Mae Nuan.
แม่ นวล ครับ?mâe nuan khráp?Mae Nuan?

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