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50 English words you already know in Thai
Thai is studded with English loanwords — bus, computer, internet, coffee — pronounced through Thai phonology. Here are 50 you already know, why they sound the way they do, and how to use them without being weird.
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The top 20 Thai verbs that do 80% of the work
Twenty Thai verbs cover the vast majority of everyday speech — go, come, eat, want, can, have. Here's the list, why each one matters, and the patterns that combine them.
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The first 100 Thai words to learn (and why)
The first 100 Thai words you learn cover roughly 50% of everyday conversation. Here are the right 100 — pronouns, verbs, particles, food — and why this set beats any phrasebook's top-100.
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How many Thai words do you need to be "fluent"?
Corpus linguistics gives a concrete answer — but the more useful question is what level of conversation you want to handle. Here are the numbers, and what they actually mean.
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Thai builds words from words
Half of Thai vocabulary is transparently compositional — น้ำแข็ง is "hard water" (ice), ห้องน้ำ is "water room" (bathroom), อาหารเช้า is "morning food" (breakfast). Once you see the pattern, the lexicon stops being a memorisation pile and starts being a Lego set.
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