samak Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 for the ai hiia äÃéà ËÕé people have been beaten to death in Thailand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Strange ... I hear my neighbours across the fence yelling it at each other every day. I finally concluded that their names must be Hia and Kuay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pescator Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 for the ai hiia ä©?é? people have been beaten to death in Thailand! I have no doubts about that. And in certain places in farangland one can get beaten to death without even saying anything just by looking at someone the wrong way. Ai Hia is a common phrase, often used jokingly between friends. Just as you wouldn`t call a stranger dickhead in farangland, neither would you call a stranger on the street Ai Hia in LOS. cheers hn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preahko Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Cha Cha That's exactly what I use, too. However, pronunciation is closer to, Sha-Sha. There are no "sh" sounds in central thai...or in any tai language that I know of. in lao, there are no "ch" sounds, and most lao words which have a "ch" analog in thai use an "s" sound in lao...so in lao, 'slowly' is "saa saa"... preahko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ_Blackowitz Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 My Thai Techer tells me pronounced tsjaa tsjaa mixture of dsch and ch more in the front of the mouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thai techer's technique to teach pronounciation techniques seems technically limited! i remember i saw once some good examples of english words, from which you can conclude how to pronounce the thai consonant. like for example: the ch in cha cha (slow) should be pronounced like the ch in the english word chapter. have this examples for chinese on hand but not for thai anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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