How to Fall in Love Thai Style
When I Fall In Love …. So how do you say that in Thai?
How Many Ways Is It Possible to Fall?
How do you say ‘fall’ in Thai? For people who have a little Thai under their belt – and even most Thais that speak English, the first word that will come to mind for the English word ‘FALL’ is the word ‘ตก’ tok.
I often hear non Thais learning Thai mistakenly use the word ‘Tok’ as a direct all purposes substitute for the English word ‘Fall’. You cannot do this.
In this clip, you’ll learn a lot more than just how to ‘Fall In Love’ in Thai. I really did the clip to make the point that I made in a clip several weeks ago ‘There’s no such word as ‘Yes’ in Thai’ – http://youtu.be/uRvvZnKvXdM
Dictionaries are at best, just a rough guide to what some words might be translated as in another language given certain conditions. Dictionaries can’t be relied on as a ‘be all’ answer to word translations. The best way to get the REAL way language is used is to elicit it from a native speaker under real life conditions… don’t ask them – observe them! If you ask them, I find that they will give you ‘standard’ answers that aren’t necessary the ‘best’ answers.
In this clip we look at the words:
- ตก
- ตกลง
- หลง
- หลงรัก
- หลงทาง
- เห่อ
- บ้า
- ล้ม
- เป็นลม
- หล่น
- ล้น
- ร่วง
- หก
- นมหก
At the very least, by the end of this clip, you’ll know what to say when someone’s showing a bit too much cleavage!
Addendum
– BTW – in the clip, I mentioned the Thai word ‘heaven’ สวรรค์ and grabbing at words, I mentioned that the airport ‘Suwarnabhumi’ uses this word ‘heaven’. That is not correct – the word used for Suwarnabhumi is สุวรรณภูมิ – Suwannaphum – from Sanskrit – Su (good) Warna (colour) = Gold and then Bhumi – Earth. So it literally means Golden place on Earth or Golden Earth.
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Stuart Jay Raj เจ 王懷樂
