Learn Thai - In The Bar

**dirtydog** · 02-06-2011, 11:26 PM

I want beer.
phom khaw bia
I (male speakers) “request for” beer

Yes.
ใช,
chai

No.
ไม, / ไม,ใช,
mai / mai-chai

Can I get the menu please?
khaw me-nuu nawy

I get one of your famous burgers.
phom ao ber-ker thii khuen-chue khawng thii-nii nueng thii

chicken with cashew nuts.
phom ao kai phat met-ma-muang

I want more beer.
phom khaw bia pherm

Do you want a drink?
khun yaak duem a-rai mai

Do you want to play pool?
khun yaak len phuun mai

Can I get the bill?
kep ngern duay

I go out to party tonight. Do you want to join me?
khuen-nii phom pai paa-tii pai duay-kan mai

I get drunk and wild tonight. Do you want to join me?
khuen-nii phom ja mao laew-kaw sut-wiang pai duay-kan mai

Are you drunk already?
khun mao laew raw

Let's go!
pai kan ther

**klong toey** · 02-06-2011, 11:36 PM

I actually learnt thai numbers in a bar,when ever i check binned i would hear kao roi ha sip or what ever the bill was.With in a month had a good idea of all the numerals and when ever someone told me how much something was i understood them.

**Thormaturge** · 02-06-2011, 11:59 PM

^
The numbers took me about fifteen minutes, watching the lottery programme on TV.

That gives you 0-10 and anything higher follows on from that.

**klong toey** · 03-06-2011, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
The numbers took me about fifteen minutes, watching the lottery programme on TV.

That gives you 0-10 and anything higher follows on from that.

The disadvantage of learning in the bar is,you leave pissed get home fall into a drunken coma.Wake up 12 hours later forgetting everything that happened yesterday.
Hence you need more lessons,seems a good way to learn to me.

**pescator** · 03-06-2011, 02:05 AM

But a long learning process.

God forbid you should ever take on learning the thai script, that would prolly be paramount to a liver transplant

**taxexile** · 03-06-2011, 03:24 AM

^
its a lot easier than you think, or should i say not as difficult as it seems, and well worth the effort.

**Seekingasylum** · 03-06-2011, 06:49 PM

What, a liver transplant?

I always thought it was bit of a bugger and sometimes involved a trip to Turkey or India.

You're one tough cookie, Tax.

**Blake7** · 03-06-2011, 06:58 PM

The farangs who learn thai in a bar always seem to speak Thai like a bar girl, no?

**Chairman Mao** · 03-06-2011, 07:37 PM

^ jing.

**Chairman Mao** · 03-06-2011, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by klong toey

The disadvantage of learning in the bar is,you leave pissed get home fall into a drunken coma.

Plus when they say 'roi yee sip' to each other, you'll think it correlates to the 250b they then write down on the bill.

**Mister Fixit** · 07-06-2011, 07:27 AM

And you learn the rough farm-girl/bar-girl Thai and look a right prat when you start speaking it to normal Thais. Who know in an instant where you learnt it...

**pescator** · 08-06-2011, 06:39 PM

I used to think the same.
But I have experienced how most thai females including farmgirls/bargirls take a pride in teaching correct and polite thai to foreigners.
On more than one occasion in bars, I have recieved comments on my language and was told: That is not a polite way of saying it.

"But, but you use that expression yourself"?
"That is different, I am thai"

Well, fair enough.

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