Hugh Leong
Thai Language Thai Culture: It’s All Relative
It’s all relative (ญาติ /yâat/)… I just returned from visiting my son and daughter-in-law in the U.S. and meeting my grand children for the first time. It was a great experience, especially for my wife Pikun who could use her hard-won mothering skills to hold and feed and take care of some little ones once [...]
Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Abbreviations Can Help Us Learn Vocabulary, Spelling and Pronunciation
Thai Abbreviations Can Help Us Learn Vocabulary, Spelling and Pronunciation… One chief bugaboo that has plagued me in my endeavors to learn to read Thai is the numerous abbreviations scattered all about newspapers and magazines. I usually end up skipping them when I read, but as they are usually integral to the story line I [...]
