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🇹🇭 Thai · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Tee and the Camera

A Sunday at the pier, Tee with a camera and a plan: I'm making a film about the old boats; a film? with that camera; they say fewer than a hundred are left; fewer than fifty, I'd say; I want people to see them before they're gone; who do you want in it; I want Dad to talk at the pier; I want the boat on the water first: wanting someone to do something.

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THE STORY

The family's pier at Bang Rak on a Sunday morning in the rains, the three long-tails tied up and Mae Nuan under her shed, Tee with a camera on his shoulder and Uncle Chai on the planks: Jack and Tee speak as friends, no particle; Jack says the polite word to Uncle Chai, who calls him Jack and says uncle for I; Tee calls his father Dad.

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กำลัง ทำ หนัง เรื่อง เรือ เก่า นะ.kam-lang tham nǎng rûeang ruea kào ná.I'm making a film about the old boats.
หนัง เหรอ? กล้อง ตัว นั้น เนี่ย?nǎng rǒe? klâwng tua nán nîa?A film? With that camera?
เขา ว่า เหลือ ไม่ ถึง ร้อย ลำ.kháo wâa lǔuea mâi thǔeng ráwy lam.They say fewer than a hundred are left.
ไม่ ถึง ห้า สิบ มั้ง.mâi thǔeng hâa sìp máng.Fewer than fifty, I'd say.
อยาก ให้ คน เห็น ก่อน หาย.yàak hâi khon hěn kàawn hǎai.I want people to see them before they're gone.
อยาก ให้ ใคร อยู่ ใน หนัง?yàak hâi khrai yùu nai nǎng?Who do you want in it?
อยาก ให้ พ่อ พูด ที่ ท่า เรือ.yàak hâi phâw phûut thîi thâa ruea.I want Dad to talk at the pier.
ลุง อยาก ให้ เรือ ลง น้ำ ก่อน.lung yàak hâi ruea long náam kàawn.I want the boat on the water first.