PART 1 · LESSON 2 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES Free
No Fuss
The house behind the pier in the daytime, Grandma refusing a party: is the workshop closed, child; about the party on the twelfth; I don't want one, at ninety you need your nap; forty cousins are coming; no need, and who pounds the som tam; you asked me to speak yourself; you can speak, child, and the som tam I pound myself; then it's a deal, Grandma: an elder's own particles, and Grandma and child for I and you.
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The family's wooden house behind the pier in Bang Rak, a weekday afternoon in the cool season: Jack says the polite word to Grandma and calls her Grandma; Grandma speaks plainly with her own soft particles, Grandma for I and child for Jack.
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