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Greetings in Thai

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Thai people don't normally speak to people who they haven't been introduced to. ÊÇÑÊ´Õ sawasdee is only one way of saying hello. Quite often this is abbreviated to ËÇÑ´´Õ 'waddee.


[»Ù] ÊÇÑÊ´Õ¤èÐ
[ÍéÍÁ] ËÇÑ´´Õ¤èÐ

[Poo] sawasdee ka
[Aom] 'waddee ka

[Poo] Hello
[Aom] Hi!

Obviously, this is more informal. An alternative informal greeting is

à»ç¹ÍÂèÒ§äúéÒ§
bhen yang rai bang

but pronounced
* Did you think we would transliterate the mahanagat in yang as a u ? Many books transliterate to a short u, which we think is much more confusing than a short a.
à»ç¹Âѧ䧺éÒ§
bhen yang ngai bang *

or sometimes abbreviated to
à»ç¹ä§ºéÒ§
bhen ngai bang

or even as short as
à»ç¹ä§
bhen ngai

An even more informal version is

à»ç¹ä§ÁÑè§
bhen ngai mang


They all mean How is it going ?

Vocabulary
ËÇÑ´´ÕHello
à»ç¹ä§ºéÒ§How's it going ?

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