PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Bulletin
The traffic-and-river bulletin read formally, then the chat: at this time traffic is congested; and in street Thai; right now it's jammed, as always; the water level is high, passenger vessels are behind time; the river's up, the express boat's late; the weather is hot, heavy rain this afternoon; hot, take an umbrella; the news wears a tie, we don't: the formal words of a bulletin and their street twins.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
On air at a Bangkok radio station, the river slot after the bulletin: the Announcer reads formally; Fah speaks as a woman with the woman's polite word; Jack keeps the polite word with her and the listeners.
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