PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
A Fast Caller
A caller from Nonthaburi whose long-tail engine coughs, talking at full speed: my engine, right, it starts then dies; slowly please, dies how; coughs like an old man, you know; how old is the engine; ages, it was Dad's, see; it's not the engine, the fuel hose is old; so change it or not, the wife says so; change it, the wife is always right: hearing a fast Bangkok speaker, the clipped forms heard and answered in full.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
On air at a Bangkok radio station, the phone-in of the river slot: the caller, a man from Nonthaburi, keeps the polite word but speaks fast, with the clipped forms of the street; Fah speaks as a woman with the woman's polite word; Jack keeps the polite word with everyone and answers in full words.
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