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🇹🇭 Thai · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Tray

Ploy's dessert stall beside Uncle Boon's, a tray of coconut desserts on the floor and nothing broken: aaah, the tray fell; whoa, the whole tray; wow, not one cup broke; can I say it like Ploy; that cry is for women, men say whoa, with friends; and the one for dead already; that's for when it really breaks, here it's just oh; oh, like that, now help me pick up the coconut: the clean exclamations of the soi, and who says which.

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THE STORY

Ploy's Thai-dessert stall beside Uncle Boon's at the night market at the mouth of the soi, a tray of coconut desserts on the floor: Ploy, Golf and Jack speak as friends, no particle.

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ว้าย! ถาด ตก!wáai! thàat tòk!Aaah! The tray fell!
เฮ้ย! ทั้ง ถาด เลย!hóei! tháng thàat loei!Whoa! The whole tray!
โอ้โห, ไม่ แตก สัก ใบ.ôo-hǒo, mâi tàaek sàk bai.Wow, not one cup broke.
ผม พูด แบบ พลอย ได้ ไหม?phǒm phûut bàaep phlaawy dâai mǎi?Can I say it like Ploy?
ว้าย ของ ผู้หญิง. ผู้ชาย พูด เฮ้ย, กับ เพื่อน.wáai khǎawng phûu-yǐng. phûu-chaai phûut hóei, kàp phûean.That cry is for women. Men say whoa, with friends.
แล้ว ตาย แล้ว ล่ะ?láeo taai láeo lâ?And the one for dead already?
นั่น ตอน แตก จริง จริง. ที่นี่ แค่ อ้าว.nân taawn tàaek jing jing. thîi-nîi khâe âao.That's for when it really breaks. Here it's just oh.