![]() ![]() It’s very difficult to learn the correct pronunciation using any type of English transliteration. One of the most important parts of learning Thai is mastering the Thai script and sounds. Less Common Thai Goodbye Phrases See you again How to Say I’m going to Bed/Sleep in Thai I’m going to bed. Goodbye Thai Phrases from English: Bye-byeĪdditional Ways to Say Goodbye in Thai: I’m heading off Goodbye in Thai Phrases on the Phone: Talk to you (later) ![]() ![]() There are also a couple of expressions from English which you will hear used fairly often. ไว้คุยกัน (wái kui gan) – goodbye (talk again soon).**When you are saying goodbye on the phone, you’ll replace เจอ (jur) “to meet” with คุย (kui) “to talk/chat” You can soften those up a little bit by throwing a นะ in before the polite particle, but it doesn’t change the feeling of the sentence drastically. If you want to play it safe rather than trust me entirely, use these natural, but still polite version. This is very excessive and does not sound natural. When you start learning Thai, you may encounter people who try to steer you towards adding in those particles every other breath. You can make any of the phrases from the previous section more polite by adding the appropriate polite particle khrap/ka which I’m not going to get into here. However, even in formal situations, everybody for the most part just uses เจอ so please don’t use พบ either.ġ0 Try 4 Lessons Free Polite Ways to Say Goodbye in Thai In any of the above sentences, you could potentially replace เจอ (jur) with พบ (póp) and some books/courses/humans may recommend you do just that. There are a few options for different levels of politeness, but here are the best sentences to use in terms of being sufficiently polite, friendly and natural at the same time. Goodbyes in Thai, like greetings are very dependent on context. You’ll see it on Thai dramas, in movies and you will hear it in songs, but not in normal everyday conversation. You’ll even see people on Quora telling you to say ลาก่อน (laa gɔ̀ɔn), but I promise you that you will never hear a Thai person say this to you in real life and you will sound silly saying it. That phrasebook told me to say what Google will probably tell you, but it’s not correct. When I first arrived in Thailand in early 2003, I used a Lonely Planet phrasebook as my main guide for how to speak Thai. There are plenty of other variations of goodbye/farewell in Thai many of which are covered in this post. Now on the new Thai transliteration keyboard, it requires just 5 taps (nadet or naded).There are a few options for how to say bye in Thai, but the best way to say goodbye is “jur gan” เจอกัน. For example, typing the popular celebrity ณเดชน์ (pronounced “Nadet”), would have required 8 taps on a Thai keyboard. Not only will your typing appear in Thai, but it will also require fewer taps. ![]() Available in Chrome as well as Gmail and Google Drive in other browsers, the new keyboard gives you a way to type phonetically, converting your keyboard inputs into Thai words and Thai letters. You can now type in Thai more easily with the launch of the new Thai transliteration keyboard. Karaoke Thai is a great workaround for music videos, but it’s not necessarily the best solution for typing an email, or writing a blog. This style of typing even has a name, “Karaoke Thai” which is a reference to the Latin-based subtitles of Thai singalong songs. For a start, how do you manage to remember where all the different keys are?!įor this reason, lots of people in Thailand use a QWERTY keyboard and type phonetically using Latin characters. With more than twice as many characters as English, which has just 21 consonants and 5 vowels, it’s no wonder that typos are more common on a Thai keyboard than on an English QWERTY keyboard. However things get a little more complicated for languages like Thai which has 44 consonants, 19 vowels, a silencer and 4 tone marks which are all part of the alphabet. Typing on a keyboard in English and other Latin script-based languages is pretty straightforward. ![]()
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