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I'll just move this here to keep on topic. Has anyone got any simple recipes for Thai cooking suitable for someone who knows almost nothing about cooking? Particularly anything that uses ingredients that can be sourced in either a European supermarket or "Asian" corner shop. I pretty much...

Interestingly enough, bpaawn (ปอนด์) is not only the loanword pound, but also the numerical classifier for cakes (and loaves of bread). So "khanom cake 4 bpaawn" might mean a 4 pound cake, but also 4 cakes. So don't be surprised if you get 4 cakes

At first, when I got the urge to learn at least a little bit of Thai, I thought I'd not even bother with reading and writing as it seemed almost impossible with the 44 consonants and 32 vowel combinations that go all over the place. But when I read somewhere that you will never learn to speak proper...

One resource that I don't see mentioned is: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/maanii1/fsmaanii1.htm It's a beginner reading course that uses old Thai elementary school books. It also has exercises after each lesson. I thought it was pretty nice way to start, even though the page is very old and quite ...

Nereus wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:05 pm"You speak Thai" from the BIB. The usual first question! Even if you teach Thai at University, NEVER admit it!

May I ask why you should never admit to the police if you can speak Thai?

I am just a beginner in Thai language, but I have come across this kind of phenomenon, called "consonant reduplication" or "double functioning consonant", where consonant is written once, but is actually pronounced twice, first as the final consonant of a syllable, and then again...