Here are a bunch of useful phrases written in English as best as I can. This website is really good. They have the English translation as well as voice overs of how to say each phrase. I’m just putting the most used ones on this page for you
If you are a girl replace kaap with kaa in the following phrases
Krap doesn’t sound like crap. You need to roll the r. If you say crop or even cop you are pretty close.
- Hello(all times of day, there is no good night/morning/afternoon) – Sawat dee krap
- Thank you – Kabpoon krap
- Food – ahaan
- Chicken – Gkai ( it’s like a combination of g and k )
- Pork – Moo
- Fried Rice – Cow
- Pad Thai <chicken/pork> – Pad Thai <moo/gkai>
- Fried Rice w/ <chicken/pork> – Cow Pad <moo/gkai>
- Where is … – … you tee nie(rhymes with tie)
- Where is the bathroom – hongnaam you tee nie krap
- Where is the restaurant - hongahaan you tee nie krap
- Directions
- Left – sigh
- Right – qwaa
- Straight – dtong buy
- Go to … – buy
- Turn – leo
- Turn left – leo sigh
- Turn right – leo qwa
- Numbers
- 1 – Newng
- 2 – Song
- 3 – Sam
- 4 – Sii
- 5 – Haaa
- 6 – Hogk
- 7 – Jed
- 8 – Baad
- 9 – Gaow
- 10 – Sib
- 11 – Sib et
- 12 – Sib soong …. 19 – Sib gaow
- 20 – yee sib
- 21 – yee sib et
- 22 – yee sib soong … 29 – yee sib gaow
- …
- 100 – newng rroy ( when you say it you need raise the tone )
- 101 – rroy et ….