Learn how to write 4 letters: ร, ล, แอะ and แอ
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| สวัสดีค่ะ, ดิฉันปรารถนาค่ะ! Welcome to Thaipod101.com’s ตัวอักษรไทย Made Easy! |
| The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Thai alphabet: ตัวอักษรไทย! |
| In the last lesson you learned the letters ท and ฮ, and the vowels สระ เอะ and สระ เอ. Do you remember how to write them all? |
| In this lesson, you’re going to learn about 2 low class consonants and a pair of vowels. |
| The first new letter is ร (raaw ruuea). The word เรือ means "boat". The sound of ร as an initial consonant is "r" like the double R in "burrito" when spoken by a native Spanish speaker. In other words, this is an R sound with a trill. Not everyone can make this sound easily, but you can get better with practice. When ร is the final consonant in a syllable it makes the sound "n" just like น. You might remember that this is one of the live ending sounds. |
| Let's practice writing ร together. Start with the head at the bottom, curve up to the left and hook back to the right. ร |
| The next letter is also another low class consonant. It's called ล (laaw ling). Do you know which animal ลิง (ling) is? It's a monkey! |
| The sound of ล as an initial consonant is "l" like the L in "little". When it's the final consonant in a syllable, ล also makes an "n" sound just like ร did. What’s great about this consonant is it actually looks like a monkey! So, when you write ล, think of a little monkey with a curved tail sticking up. |
| Let's write ล together. |
| Start with the head, a small curve to the right, and a larger curve to the left. ล |
| Take a look at this word written using ล. |
| This is actually a word from English. Can you recognize it? |
| It's the word "bill", but we read it in Thai as บิล (bin). Thai doesn't naturally have the sound of letter L at the end of a syllable. So it changes to sound like the letter N. |
| บ, สระ อิ, ล... บิล |
| Now let's quickly review the vowel pair that we learned in the last lesson. They were สระ เอะ and สระ เอ. We can see that they are the same except for the สระ อะ written at the end to indicate a short vowel. Most of the remaining vowel pairs that we'll be learning follow the same pattern. The long and short versions will look the same except for สระ อะ added to the end of the short vowel. |
| The two new vowels in this lesson are สระ แอะ (sà-rà àe) and สระ แอ (sà-rà aae). |
| They are written with a double สระ เอ before the consonant. Then for the short vowel, สระ อะ is added after the consonant. |
| The sound of สระ แอะ and สระ แอ is like the A in "cat". |
| Let's write these: |
| สระ แอะ (sà-rà àe) |
| สระ แอ (sà-rà aae) |
| One very common word that is written using สระ แอะ is และ (láe), which means "and". และ is a high tone because it has an initial low class consonant, with a short vowel, and a dead stop. |
| A word using the long vowel, สระ แอ, is แรง (raaeng), which means "power". แรง has a low class consonant and a live ending, so it is pronounced mid tone. |
| Let's write both of these words: |
| สระ แอ, ล, สระ อะ... และ |
| and |
| สระ แอ, ร, and ง. ...แรง |
| One last word for this lesson. Can you read it? The first thing written on the left is สระ แอ, but we need to look to the right of that to find the initial consonant. In this word, the initial consonant is ม. The vowel sound แอ (aae) gets attached to it, so then we have แม (maae). Finally, the letter ว comes at the end. It makes a W or O sound that blends with the vowel to give us the word แมว (maaeo). If you think แมว sounds like the noise a cat makes, that's because แมว (maaeo) means "cat" in Thai. |
| Let's write "cat" -- สระ แอ, ม, ว... แมว |
| Now it's time for Pradthana's Points. |
| Many modern Thai fonts used in print media alter the shapes of some letters, often to mimic the shape of an English letter. If you are trying to read something in Thai, and you see what looks like the letter S, it is actually the letter ร. |
| ร might also look a little like the letter S in people's handwriting because it's faster to write it that way |
| Do you know the Thai word for "year"? In the next ตัวอักษรไทย Made Easy Lesson you'll learn how to say it, and most of all, how to write it! See you there! สวัสดีค่ะ! |
Comments
HideWhat Thai words can you write using ร (Raaw ruuea), ล (Laaw ling), แอะ (Short ae), or แอ (Long ae)?
Hello Nave,
Thank you. "แอะ" (ae) is indeed pronounced with a glottal stop, which can create a dead stop or pause in speech. This occurs because of the nature of the vowel and its pronunciation rules in Thai. และ (láe) is a high tone because it has an initial low-class consonant, with a short vowel, and a dead stop. When we mentioned a 'dead stop,' I think she meant that the sound in the word 'และ' (láe) suddenly stops at the end. Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
สวัสดีค่ะ sa-wat-dii kha
ปริษา Parisa
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why แอะ has a dead stop?
Hello jo and Esther,
Thank you. Jo, yes ร is a live ending "n" when it is at the end of a syllable. Esther, yes there is one missing ฌ เฌอ chaaw-chooe is low class consonant, It make the sound "ch'' sound as an initial consonant and make "t stop" final sound. Here are some examples words, ฌอน Sean; Shaun; Shawn [an English given name], ฌาน "chaan" means "Dhyana; meditation; thought; concentration of mind; one-pointed meditation". Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help. We hope you will make good progress with Thai.
สวัสดีค่ะ sà-wàt-dii-khâ
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hello. I go through all the classes' notes and realised that there are one character missing from this alphabet classes, which is chase chooe. Would like to see if there is any notes for it? Thanks
Hi,im not sure but if ร has a ending sound of "n" does that make it a live ending?
Hi Q,
Thank you. Yes, she said "It makes a W or O sound that blends with the vowels.". Thai language doesn't have a standard romanization so, different website or Thai language book for foreigner may one or another. Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
สวัสดีค่ะ sà-wàt-dii-khâ
ปริษา Parisa
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Hi,
What sound does ว make at the end? I hear her say 'W' or 'O'?
Hi Har,
Thank you. We're very sorry to hear. What browser do you use? I always use google edge and google chrome, seem to be no problem. You could refresh page, logout and login again to see if that help. I will also suggest our team and see what they can do to help. Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
สวัสดีค่ะ sà-wàt-dii-khâ
ปริษา Parisa
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Why the video keeps on buffering when I have a very stable connection?
Hello สวัสดีค่ะ คุณ Manuel,
ขอบคุณค่ะ "เสร็จ" as "set" low tone, ส and ร are combine consonant cluster initial "s" plus vowel เ-ะ "e" changed form to เ ็ "e" in the middle position of a syllable and final consonant จ t stop. For more information about consonant clusters, please check this out: http://www.thai-language.com/ref/double-consonants Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
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Hi! I don't quite understand why to pronounce "เสร็จ" as "set". I would pronounce this as something like "sert". Does the "ร" have another function in this word?
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Hello,
I do the writing exercices but it says I'm wrong but I can't see the differences with the answers.
I dont know how to send you my capture...
สวัสดีค่ะ เดวิด
ขอบคุณค่ะ ครูดีใจที่คุณเข้าใจด้วยตัวเอง ใช่ค่ะ คุณเข้าใจถูกแล้ว I'm glad you figure it out by yourself. yes, that is correct. 👍
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Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
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I realized my error regarding tonal rules for เปล่า: there is a consonant cluster with ป + ล, and because ป (a middle class consonant) appears first, the consonant cluster's tonal rules are determined by that first character.
MCIC + _่ = low tone.
Since ล is a low class consonant, I do not understand why เปล่า (like in the final syllable of น้ำแข็งเปล่า / plain ice water) has a low tone.
Because there is a low tone marker (_่) and it appears over a low class consonant (ล), why does เปล่า get a low tone instead of a falling tone?
Hi Tim Nyap Ming,
Thank you. You're right. When สระ แอะ (sà-rà àe) is followed by a final consonant, it be written like this - เเอ็ examples แข็งแรง/น้ำแข็ง / แฮ็ก / แจ็ก
(ว) pronounce long สาว(sǎao) ลาว(Laao) ว้าว(wáao) ข้าว(khâao)กลัว(gluua) ตัว(dtuua)
(เอา) Sara-ao(long vowel) but pronounce short เอา(ao) เขา(kháo) เข้า(khâo) เบา(bao) เรา(rao)
Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
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Hi everyone.
I have a quick question about the vowel sounds of สระ แอะ (sà-rà àe) and สระ แอ (sà-rà aae).
When สระ แอะ (sà-rà àe) is followed by a final consonant, how should it be written? Should it be written like this - เเอ็
Also for me, it is very unnatural for me to differentiate the waaw-wen (ว) consonant sound and the vowel Sara-aoo (สระ เอา). Is this normal?
สวัสดี Eris,
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เลเว็นเต้ (Levente)
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Hello Eris and Julia,
Thank you. Eris, I would suggested. You could also send our team and email. Julia, เอะ e เอ ee and แอะ ae แอ aae
เอะ e เอ ee speak with soft smile face, teeth close to each other while แอะ ae แอ aae open your mouth more with smile and tougue out a bit cover under teeth. Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
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