PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
Silk for Mom
A silk shop on Charoen Krung, Nam choosing with Jack's mother: come and look, looking is free; I'm buying silk for my mother; hand-woven, from Isan; choose for her, Jack; Mom says that she likes the blue; exactly the boats' blue, I painted it; two thousand five hundred, a mother's price; the blue, please, and Grandma asked me to buy for her too: for someone, with the giving word after the verb.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
A silk shop on Charoen Krung on a Tuesday afternoon in November, bolts of Isan silk on the counter: the shopkeeper says the woman's polite word, Jack keeps the polite word with her, Nam and Jack speak as friends; Jack's parents are heard only through what Jack relays.
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