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🇹🇭 Thai · Beginner Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The First Rain Cloud

The pier, an evening at the end of May, the first cloud over Thonburi, Nam and Jack: the rains are coming; promise you'll stay the whole year; I promise, the whole year; in the cool season, Chiang Mai, promise? I promise; and call your mother, promise? I promise, and you paint my boat one day; your boat? One day I'll have a boat of my own; one day, I promise: promising, and one day.

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THE STORY

The pier in Bang Rak, an evening at the end of May, the first rain cloud of the year over Thonburi: Nam and Jack, friends, no polite word between them.

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ฝน จะ มา แล้ว, แจ็ค.fǒn jà maa láeo, jaek.The rains are coming, Jack.
สัญญา ว่า จะ อยู่ ทั้ง ปี นะ.sǎn-yaa wâa jà yùu tháng pii ná.Promise you'll stay the whole year.
หน้าหนาว ไป เชียงใหม่. สัญญา ไหม?nâa-nǎao pai chiang-mài. sǎn-yaa mǎi?In the cool season, Chiang Mai. Promise?
สัญญา. น้ำ วาด เรือ ผม สัก วัน.sǎn-yaa. náam wâat ruea phǒm sàk wan.I promise. And you paint my boat one day.
สัก วัน ผม จะ มี เรือ เอง.sàk wan phǒm jà mii ruea eeng.One day I'll have a boat of my own.
สัก วัน. ฉัน สัญญา.sàk wan. chǎn sǎn-yaa.One day. I promise.