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🇹🇭 Thai · Intermediate Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Advice for Husbands

The pier at evening the week before the wedding, Uncle Chai, Tee and Jack over a net: Tee, listen to your wife, even when she's wrong, listen; and when she's right? then say so, fast, it's worth it; and the fireworks, worth it? forget it, the boats are enough; I think it's worth it, Uncle; Jack, is quarrelling worth it? no need to ask me, ask Aunt Oy: worth it, no need, forget it.

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The pier at Bang Rak at evening, a net across three laps, the week before the wedding: Uncle Chai speaks to his son and to Jack plainly, Tee says the polite word to his father, Jack keeps it with Uncle Chai and speaks to Tee as a friend.

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ตี๋, ฟัง เมีย นะ. ผิด ก็ ฟัง.tǐi, fang mia ná. phìt kâw fang.Tee, listen to your wife. Even when she's wrong, listen.
แล้ว ถ้า เมีย ถูก ล่ะ ครับ?láeo thâa mia thùuk lâ khráp?And when she's right?
ก็ บอก เร็ว เร็ว. คุ้ม นะ.kâw bàawk reo reo. khúm ná.Then say so, fast. It's worth it.
ดอกไม้ไฟ ล่ะ ครับ? คุ้ม ไหม?dàawk-máai-fai lâ khráp? khúm mǎi?And the fireworks? Worth it?
ช่าง มัน เถอะchâang man thòeforget it: let it be, it, the suggesting word
ช่าง มัน เถอะ. เรือ ก็ พอ แล้ว.châang man thòe. ruea kâw phaw láeo.Forget it. The boats are enough.
ผม ว่า คุ้ม ครับ, ลุง.phǒm wâa khúm khráp, lung.I think it's worth it, Uncle.
แจ็ค, ทะเลาะ กัน คุ้ม ไหม?jaek, thá-láw kan khúm mǎi?Jack, is quarrelling worth it?
ไม่ ต้อง ถาม ผม ครับ. ถาม ป้า.mâi tâwng thǎam phǒm khráp. thǎam pâa.No need to ask me. Ask Auntie.