PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
Every Word Bows
The flat in Khlong San at night, three pages on the table: three pages? one story is enough; which one; your first day at Grandma's table, you couldn't speak; I said thank you six times; that's the story, and your I becomes the humble one; and the words for eat and know; the polite word for eat, the formal word for know; the big thank you six times, and every word wais: the humble and formal words a speech is made of.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
Jack and Nam's flat on the fourth floor of an old house in Khlong San, late at night in the cool season, three pages of speech on the table: Nam and Jack speak without the particle; the words they talk about are the formal ones.
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