PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Customer
The yard the next morning, Aunt Somjai, sixty, who sells coconut sweets from her boat at Amphawa, with a box of them and a tape measure: I want you to make it light; light, and I want it to last too; I want you to measure the old one; the stove, the coconuts, the ice, and me; then wider than the old one; I want it named Little Sweet; I want Nam to come and paint the name; I want the deposit before the wood is cut: I want you to.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
Master Wichai's yard on Khlong Bang Luang the next morning, Aunt Somjai from Amphawa floating market with a box of coconut sweets and a tape measure: Aunt Somjai speaks as a woman with the polite word and calls Jack the builder, Jack keeps the polite word with her, and Master Wichai speaks plainly.
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