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🇹🇭 Thai · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Story Hour

Saturday at ten in the children's corner of the public library in Khlong San, Fon in the front row: the children's corner, ten minutes; hello, today the tiger and the crocodile; uncle, why does the tiger want to eat the man; because he sang loudly; and the crocodile; he ran into the river and met a crocodile; why didn't he climb a tree; he didn't ask you first: how a grown-up speaks to a child, and the child's word for uncle.

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THE STORY

The children's corner of the public library in Khlong San on a Saturday morning, a dozen children on the mat and Fon, eight, in the front row: Khun Wan says the woman's particle to Jack; Jack speaks to the children as a grown-up to a child, no particle, the soft word at the end; Fon calls him Uncle Jack with a child's particle.

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มุม เด็ก, สิบ นาที นะ คะ.mum dèk, sìp naa-thii ná khá.The children's corner, ten minutes.
สวัสดี จ้ะ. วันนี้ เสือ กับ จระเข้.sà-wàt-dii jâ. wan-níi sǔuea kàp jaw-rá-khêe.Hello. Today, the tiger and the crocodile.
ลุง คะ, ทำไม เสือ อยาก กิน คน?lung khá, tham-mai sǔuea yàak kin khon?Uncle, why does the tiger want to eat the man?
เพราะ เขา ร้อง เพลง ดัง จ้ะ.phráw kháo ráawng phleeng dang jâ.Because he sang loudly.
แล้ว จระเข้ ล่ะ คะ?láeo jaw-rá-khêe lâ khá?And the crocodile?
เขา วิ่ง ลง น้ำ, เจอ จระเข้ จ้ะ.kháo wîng long náam, joe jaw-rá-khêe jâ.He ran into the river and met a crocodile.
ทำไม ไม่ ปีน ต้นไม้ ล่ะ คะ?tham-mai mâi piin tôn-máai lâ khá?Why didn't he climb a tree?
เขา ไม่ ได้ ถาม หนู ก่อน จ้ะ.kháo mâi dâai thǎam nǔu kàawn jâ.He didn't ask you first.