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🇹🇭 Thai · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Landlady's Second Floor

A lane behind Wongwian Yai, the second floor of Nui's cousin's building: here's the flat, two rooms, a kitchen, a balcony; can it be eight thousand five hundred? all right, but the deposit today; otherwise it goes to the nurse downstairs; Bee, do we take this one? yes, otherwise we eat at Mum's stall forever; otherwise Nui has to look again; we'll take it, here's the deposit: or else and otherwise.

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THE STORY

A dead-end lane behind Wongwian Yai on a Sunday in March, the second floor over a mango tree: the landlady and everyone keep the polite word, Bee and Jack keep it too, Tee and Bee speak plainly to each other, Tee and Jack as friends.

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นี่ ห้อง ค่ะ. สอง ห้อง, ครัว, ระเบียง.nîi hâawng khâ. sǎawng hâawng, khrua, rá-biang.Here's the flat. Two rooms, a kitchen, a balcony.
แปด พัน ห้า ได้ ไหม คะ?pàet phan hâa dâai mǎi khá?Can it be eight thousand five hundred?
ได้ ค่ะ. แต่ มัดจำ วันนี้ นะ คะ.dâai khâ. tàe mát-jam wan-níi ná khá.All right. But the deposit today.
ไม่ งั้นmâi ngánotherwise: not, then
ไม่ งั้น ให้ พยาบาล ข้างล่าง ค่ะ.mâi ngán hâi phá-yaa-baan khâang-lâang khâ.Otherwise it goes to the nurse downstairs.
บี, เอา ห้อง นี้ ไหม?bii, ao hâawng níi mǎi?Bee, do we take this one?
เอา. ไม่ งั้น กิน ร้าน แม่ ตลอด.ao. mâi ngán kin ráan mâe tà-làwt.Yes. Otherwise we eat at Mum's stall forever.
ไม่ งั้น พี่ นุ้ย ต้อง หา ใหม่.mâi ngán phîi núi tâwng hǎa mài.Otherwise Nui has to look again.
เอา ครับ. นี่ มัดจำ ครับ.ao khráp. nîi mát-jam khráp.We'll take it. Here's the deposit.