Thai language/wai

สวัสดี(sawatdee)
(means hi)

OK this entire post is not going to be in Thai simply because that is the only Thai i know....  Well its a start right and I still have 7 months and I just asked a family friend who lived in Thailand if she wouldn't mind teaching me some so I'm not completely lost when I get over there.    OK so my family friends also happens to be my pastor's wife more specifically which just makes it like 10X better duh.


The Thai language is a tonal language.  If you don't know what i mean here is an example.  There could be multiple words that look like this mi, mi, mi, mi, mi.... Now depending on the tone in your voice as you say them they mean something different...  Thai has five different tones.  I don't know all of them but I do know there are 5.

 SO there goes the never fail sound it out.   Nope doesn't work in their language....

Now when I'm over there I'm going to be taking a Thai language course from which I hear teaches you to speak the language more than writing and reading.  Now come on maybe I want to write in a language that ya know NO ONE can read besides me.  That would be awesome.... here is HELLO written in Thai just like I showed you in the beginning of the post.  There are some other phrases that are not to hard to learn but I'm not here to teach you guys Thai from what I have learned from a computer... When I get there and start taking my language course THAN I will teach you some new words....



SKIPPING DOWN




THE WAI...
the Wai is a traditional Thai greeting.  Both hands are placed in front of you palms together just like the picture above under the HI!!! but ill put it again cause i know you are to lazy to scroll up....

the younger/lower status person Wai's first.  Just by doing that and know sawatdee will create a huge impact from what I hear when I go over there... All they care about is that you TRY and ofa course be respectful!!!  for the most part  people will be very pleased and less likely to treat you like a foreigner if you TRY!!! and come on how cool would it be to be treated like a Thai person... Like someone who lives there and knows the culture....  That would be AWESOME!!!



Until Tomorrow
Danielle : )