Learn to ask for a ticket
Now Playing: Lesson Audio
Get a breakdown of the dialogue and translations instantly with the Premium line-by-line Audio. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Unlock Lesson Notes and Transcripts for every single lesson. Sign Up for a Free Lifetime Account and Get 7 Days of Premium Access.
| INTRODUCTION |
| Hello and welcome to Thai Survival Phrases brought to you by ThaiPod101.com. This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Thailand. You will be surprised at how far a little Thai will go. |
| Now, before we jump in, remember to stop by ThaiPod101.com, and there, you will find the accompanying PDF and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
Lesson focus |
|---|
| In Thailand, riding the rails is one of the best ways to get around, not only locally, but also, for long-distance destination. It is inexpensive and very reliable. Besides, you will get to see many places throughout the trip. But before we jump into the train, let's get a ticket first. |
| In Thailand, we can buy train tickets at the ticket gate window. We can accomplish this by asking "Ticket to destination, please," where the destination is your desired destination. |
| In today's lesson, we'll use grung-thêep, which means "Bangkok," as our destination. |
| Let's hear this one again: grung-thêep |
| grung-thêep |
| In Thai, "Ticket to Bangkok, please" is dtǔua bpai grung-thêep |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep |
| Let's break it down by syllable: dtǔua bpai grung-thêep |
| Don’t forget to be polite. Therefore, women say dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khâ |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khâ |
| And men say dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khráp |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khráp |
| The first word, dtǔua, means "ticket," followed by bpai, which means "go." The next word is grung-theep, which is Thai word for "Bangkok," the capital city of Thailand. Khâ and khráp is added to make the phrase more polite. Therefore, this phrase literally means "Ticket to Bangkok, please." |
| Now, if you want to buy more than one ticket at a time, for example, if you want to buy four tickets, you can accomplish this by saying dtǔua bpai grung-thêep sìi bai |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep sìi bai |
| Let's break it down by syllable: dtǔua bpai grung-thêep sìi bai |
| Again, khâ and khráp should be added to make it phrase more polite. |
| Therefore, women say dtǔua bpai grung-thêep sìi bai khâ |
| And men say dtǔua bpai grung-thêep sìi bai khráp |
| As you may notice, we add sìi bai in this phrase. |
| The word sìi means "four," followed by bai, which is a pronoun for "ticket." Therefore, sìi bai means "four tickets," and this phrase means "Four tickets to Bangkok, please." |
| Now, you may, "Hey, this phrase is very familiar." It is because you already learned how to buy a ticket in the previous lesson. Buying a ticket for bus or train is exactly the same. |
| However, just the destination may not be enough, as there are several types of seat on train in Thailand. They are categorized by type of train in which defined by the destination. Most long-haul routes, such as Bangkok, Chiang Mai, offer special express trains, which have air-conditioned first class day and night seat, where you can turn your seat into a bed at night. |
| The air-conditioned second class day and night seat are very similar to the first class, except they are a little less fancy, but of course, cheaper. |
| Once we have established the destination and type of seat you'd like, it is time to purchase. In Thai, "air-conditioned first class" is chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat |
| chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat |
| Let's break it down by syllable: chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat |
| Now, let's hear this once again: chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat |
| The first word, chán, means "class," followed by nùeng, which means "first" or "one." So chán-nùeng means "first class." |
| The next set of words is bpràp aa-gàat |
| bpràp aa-gàat |
| which is translated into "air-conditioned." |
| Let's hear this one more time: bpràp aa-gàat |
| bpràp aa-gàat |
| Altogether, chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat means "air-conditioned first class." |
| Now, let's try for the second class ticket, shall we? |
| In Thai, "air-conditioned second class" is chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat |
| chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat |
| Let's break it down by syllable: chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat |
| Now, let's hear this once again: chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat |
| The first word, chán, means "class," followed by sǎawng, which means "second" or "two." So chán-sǎawng means "second class." The next set of words is bpràp aa-gàat |
| bpràp aa-gàat |
| which is translated into "air-conditioned." |
| So altogether, chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat means "air-conditioned second class." |
Outro |
| Okay. To close out today's lesson, we'd like for you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase, and you are responsible of saying it loud. You will have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so chôok-dii khâ, that's mean "good luck" in Thai. |
| Remember, khâ is for women, and khráp is for men. Okay. Here we go. |
| "Ticket to Bangkok, please." for women - dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khâ |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khâ |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khâ |
| "Ticket to Bangkok, please." for men - dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khráp |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khráp |
| dtǔua bpai grung-thêep khráp |
| "Air-conditioned first class" for women - chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| "Air-conditioned first class" for men - chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| chán-nùeng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| "Air-conditioned second class" for women - chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khâ |
| "Air-conditioned second class" for men - chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| chán-sǎawng bpràp aa-gàat khráp |
| All right. That’s going to do it for today. Remember to stop by ThaiPod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
Comments
Hide