The Korean guy had been waiting all his life for a test like this and he passed with flying colors! And he should be very proud to read and speak a language so different from his. All his hard work paid off. Very smart guy! It was great to see his reaction!
@@Johnne009 If Thai and Korean are similar Nowadays, I don't have to major in Korean anymore. And Koreans probably don't have to learn Thai. But if you talk about Laos, I still understand because the languages are very similar.
@@Johnne009 Hello everyone! We are new AMWF content creator. I'm from Bangkok and my gf's from Scotland. Jay(my gf) has been learning Thai. Have a nice day/evening everyone! 🇹🇭🇬🇧 Paul and Jay
@@Dan-xx5jq I dunno why they do it btw, sentences are still composed from individual words, so it's quite strange. But it's not as a big of a deal as Thai letters being so small on computer screens. Some of my friends have bad eye-sight and it really stops them from learning Thai, they just can't read it.
@@Dan-xx5jq we can do that because 1. vowels and consonants are always seperate: ("weareironman" "we are ironman" this confuse are found in english but "a" and "i" cannot on first letter in thai so it will easier to read like sentense "wegotojail") 2. thai word have no long compound end sound as consonants("enhancement" will be "enhanmen") and all letter in word much have voice ( "dept" will be "det") so after read it, you will feel easy to pronouce and each pronouce will be align to have meaning 3. one thai syllable useally short so it like normally sentense are "wegotojail" "panflytoleg" note1: if you study thai you will know some word also have silence voice because it is from other language but it also easy to seperate because it alway at last of word and have special charecter to warn you " ์ " note2: if you study thai you will thing we have compound sound it because some compound sound are already in vowels ( "foreign" sound "ei" can use one vowels " เ ")
That was brilliant. Loved how happy the Korean dude was. He loves Thailand and this made his day. Sometimes as a westerner in Thailand we tend to forget that just about every culture and peoples also love Thailand. Evidenced here with multiple nations having a go.
As a Thai person, it's nice to see foreigners or just other people try to learn our language. It's really hard and even I sometimes struggle to read some of the words. Also, I actually went to that store with my parents many times. I was thinking why the surroundings were looking so strange and familiar.
Hey Paddy. I thought this was a fun clip until the end when you said you'd been there 4 hours! That seems crazy pitiful about how many foreign people don't read - which likely means they don't speak well either. I feel sad for the farang community. Speaking (and reading) Thai helps so much to show respect for this great place we live. Thanks for making Thai language fun.
@@ShadyD365 I hear what you're saying David and definitely Asoke would be a low concentration of Thai readers. For me, speaking, reading and writing Thai is one way to show respect for this wonderful place and I feel that the foreign community could do a better job of honoring Thai culture. So I say, "good for you!" for wanting to learn Thai! Classroom learning is my favorite because you can meet new friends. I also have a tutor who I meet online that I would recommend.
I studied spoken Thai for 5 years painstakingly (by my self) before kicking it off with the script and here's my only tip for foreigners trying to learn Thai: START WITH THE SCRIPT! Trust me it makes a huge difference on how fast you learn the language.
I'm half Thai, moved away when I was young so I can speak broken Thai and understand more but not to a high level. How did you go about learning the script? I feel like it would make a huge difference if I could actually vocalise written Thai?
@@connorkapooh2002 Just multiple online using teaching videos. There's A LOT of memorizing regarding rules and stuff but once you just get a grasp of the basics you already have the building blocks for the rest. For me, as a Finnish person studying Thai in English i found the most difficult part to be trying to get a grasp of the transliteration in English. But when i started studying the script i understood how the sounds work (and also that we have the same vowels in Finnish, minus the tonality and throaty/nasal aspects) and that the consonants aren't just K, G, T like in English but that there are multiple different soundings to them that have different rules and meanings when paired with one another. ok i made this sound a lot more complicated than it is... The thing that takes the most time is memorizing which class a consonant is (thus which tone the word is said in when there is no tone marking above the letter). Just look out any tutorials. The one that cracked it for me is Thaipod101 on TH-cam. Good luck! You already know the language (even if it is broken) so you'll get a grasp of it in no time!
@@connorkapooh2002 Hello everyone! We are new AMWF content creator. I'm from Bangkok and my gf's from Scotland. Jay(my gf) has been learning Thai. Have a nice day/evening everyone! 🇹🇭🇬🇧 Paul and Jay
@@connorkapooh2002 use the old Manee and Friends textbooks and flash cards for vowels consonants and tone diacritic rules. I taught my half Thai son to read and write this way
What a great experiment. I wonder if there were any foreigners who walked past you and can read Thai, but didn't want to be seen with you because they thought you were a farang bumming money. 😅🤣 Great content Paddy. Well done.
The airport would be a perfect location! It would be full of foreigners and you could possibly find that one Western tourist that could read it. It was a lot of fun and it would great if you had more takers...the airport would be a great location.
Hey Paddy you encouraged me to start learning thai again. I've been married to a Thai woman for 6 years and this year in Thailand I could see how disappointed the mother was that I still don't understand her. I have taken many of your tips to heart and will practice a lot with your videos and my wife.
Paddy, you have so much good lesson material in your speech for those of us learning to speak Thai. How about an epilogue in your videos where you go over some key phrases and vocabulary to explain word usage, sentence structure. Or alternatively having it as a stand alone video. I know I like to learn Thai by watching casual conversation with subtitles and essentially 'copying' phraseology but in Thai we know it's not that easy because of various reasons. Consider it!
I'm Thai, I hired 3 private Japanese language teachers and one of them can speak Thai. and speaks very well She said it took 3 years of learning Thai She always said that Thai language is very difficult.
I can read and write the lao language, now you've motivated me even more to finally learn how to read and write Thai. It's similar but still different. Good video mate👍🏻
Lao has a lot fewer exceptions than Thai and fewer different letters that make the same sound, so it's like Thai but more logical and therefore easier.
Interesting experiment, although i think for most european/american/australian people, it will be just a little bit too hard. Just because of most people only learn to speak words and sentences in Thai language. Try the same experiment with some sentences on some farang and you will see different answers. Keep up the good work Paddy! Always looking forward to see your next video! Greetings from Belgium!
If only you had this challenge around end of december, i could have gotten the price too hahaha not to mention i was in siam almost everyday when we were there last dec. Thank you for the vid. Had lots of fun watching it ❤ the korean guy’s vibe is giving 😂
The biggest thing I miss about dating an asian girl is going to an asian markets being completely clueless. Helping out the best that I could, which wasn't much.
Good fun! But it just proves the point that very few Farangs can read or even speak Thai. Not expecting much from tourists though, but those who live in the country should at least give it a go 😉
Plenty of farangs can speak and read Thai to an advanced level, but have taken their western ways with them to Thailand and do not interact with anyone who is not in their close circle of friends or colleagues. Bangkok expats especially are an anti-social bunch who mostly wouldn't give each other the light of day. I'd say some Thai speaking farangs must have passed Paddy and totally ignored him, not taking the time to read the sign.
For anyone wondering, Thai is very hard to read. I'm presently trying for the second time, but I've actually been in Thailand twice in the last five months.
To be honest, it's not that hard. I lived in Thailand for 11 months already and i can speak and read, but write just a little (can do it on phone pretty fast). I was always wondering why Thais think my Thai skill is good, because i always feel like it's pretty bad and switching to english can be required in long dialogs, but - "คุณพูดภาษาไทเก่งมักครับ/คะ". Looking at these farangs who live here so long, but don't bother learning Thai now answers all my questions. When i first heard Paddy talk about learning Thai, he said it took 8 months to become fluent for him, and i agree. I actually was studying hard for first half of year, but after that it just snowballs by itself. When i discuss languages with Thais, we agree that Russian is harder to learn/master than Thai.
I love it !This is fun experiment. Please do more video Paddy. Next time you might add some English caption otherwise they will think that you are a homeless asking for money lol. 😁
If only foreigners know the secret of the Thai letter, studying Thai will be a breeze. Thai language is different from English in a way that you all would learn English by first listening ,and speaking , and later on, if any, reading and then writing. But if you are not born here in Thailand, the best way to learn the Thai language is imho to learn the alphabet first. They look terrifying at first but give a month try and then you will realize they so easy to grasp. Learning how to speak Thai without learning the alphabet will later on give you nothing to reinforce on and thus eventually forgetting most of the words.
Not quite. I'm a language enthusiast and know half a dozen alphabets and I've been to Thailand at least six or seven times and I still struggle to read Thai. Some of the letters have similar shapes and some letters are quite rare but look similar to common letters, some fonts have really different shapes and it's hard to figure out what letter it is, and the spelling is quite tricky, but of course more logical than English. And then trying to work out what tone to pronounce for each syllable is something I haven't even began to master. For comparison, learning to read Korean took maybe one hour and learning to read Georgian took two days, maybe three. But Thai is easier to read for me than Tibetan or Mongolian at least (-:
@@andrewdunbar828 you may be right cause I don't know Korean or other language I only know English, chinese and Thai (i'm native Thai). But give it a month try and you may be surprised. After you feel at ease with the Thai alphabets, the way they join to make word and form pronunciation is automatically intuitive. Cheers.
@@planb2504 Before covid I gave it two months, which was already not my first time trying and I've just given it 45 days. Hopefully I'll be back again later in the year to try another time (-:
@@andrewdunbar828 you may wanna start with this or similar cartoon clip. Don't underestimate it even they were meant to use for teaching kids. th-cam.com/video/5DuODWIHHUg/w-d-xo.html
@@planb2504 Actually I've tried children's materials for language learning before thinking it would be great because children by definition are learning and the vocabulary will be limited and sentences will be simple. But it turns out children's material tends to be too repetitive for adults, there tends to be vocabulary that's fun for kids but not something you'd use often, farm animals is one example. Overall most is not engaging enough to keep an adult interested. This is my general observation that I'm saying before I watch the video you link, which I will do now (-:
I feel so ashamed as I don't know one symbol in their language....it just looks so difficult as the script is different and there are so spaces. Just looks like something from a different planet. It is amazing that you mastered it. The Thai people love the fact that a foreigner learned their language.
Hey Dan. I totally get how daunting Thai script looks. And yet I'd still encourage you to take your first reading and writing class. Pausing Paddy's video and reading his sign is incredibly satisfying. You can get there. I mean if I can (and I'm crap with language) I think you can for sure! Message me if I can suggest places to start. Cheers.
I have been in Thailand for 4 months going on 5, and my ability to read Thai is non-existent. Apart from English (obviously), the fact that Thai uses an alphabetical writing system is actually one of the hard parts for me as I only know Chinese characters and the Roman alphabet. The whole idea of marking vowels and consonants on top or below other vowels and consonants is completely foreign to me, along with some words having weird rules about silent vowels / consonants where you still have to put something down. In a general sense, despite being a tonal language, Thai belongs to a completely different family than the Sino-Tibetan languages and is also less influenced by Chinese (more by Indian, Khmer and even English / European languages) than something like Vietnamese. I can guess the meanings of some Viet words because they’re so similar to Chinese, but can’t really do that for Thai as many Thai words have Khmer / Sanskrit / Western roots. Ironically, the fact that Thai contains so many loanwords is also one of the harder parts for me. They’re well, English but not really English. Chinese but not really Chinese. If I say them in their proper pronunciations I’ll more than likely not be understood. Thai in my opinion is also not a very “logical” / “straightforward” language compared to Chinese. It feels very roundabout when the same concept or the same message I’m trying to convey could be said in only a few words in Chinese. Chinese might be the exception in terms of its directness, so when I’m picking up Thai, it’s hard for me to mentally get into the mode that something needs to be expressed in a more “gentle” and indirect way. For example, “can you eat xxx food” in Thai would need to be answered as “gin dai” (can eat). In Chinese I could say “可以吃” (can eat), but a lot of times we simply say “吃” (eat) as the affirmative.
I actually find your statement intriguing. I've always thought that Chinese speakers shouldn't have hard time learning Thai, compared to the Europeans. Yes, many loanwords are from Khmer, Pali, and Sanskrit but most basic expressions derived from similar "sentiment" to Chinese, although not the same or similar words to Chinese. In fact, most Thais have fewer difficulties learning Chinese (apart from reading and writing), compared to when they learn other European languages. Not to mention the tones, Thais can easily master it. I'm Thai myself and used to learn mandarin. After just 6 months I already felt comfortable conversing in basic mandarin (more than tourist survival phrases).
Good video, my only suggestion would have been to have the large sign shown to the camera at the beginning of the video without you reading it to us. That way "we at home" could have had a chance to try our reading skills. (The "struggling, struggling" moment was close but blurry).
Was interesting to see something different. I would love to try this myself in Bangkok but as a hopeless introvert holding any sign in public would make me feel like Bruce Willis's character holding a sign in Die Hard 3.
The Korean guy had been waiting all his life for a test like this and he passed with flying colors! And he should be very proud to read and speak a language so different from his. All his hard work paid off. Very smart guy! It was great to see his reaction!
Korean and Thai are quite similar and belong to the Sino group of languages
@@Johnne009 I think you need to do better research before replying. Thai and Korean are not from the same language family.
@@Johnne009 If Thai and Korean are similar Nowadays, I don't have to major in Korean anymore. And Koreans probably don't have to learn Thai. But if you talk about Laos, I still understand because the languages are very similar.
@@Johnne009
Hello everyone!
We are new AMWF content creator.
I'm from Bangkok and my gf's from Scotland.
Jay(my gf) has been learning Thai.
Have a nice day/evening everyone!
🇹🇭🇬🇧
Paul and Jay
@@Johnne009 the one and only similar language to thai is laos. Korean language is whole different. It develop from chinese language.
ชาวต่างชาติอ่านภาษาไทยน่ารักมาก😂❤️❤️👍
แฟนบอกผมว่าผมมีสําเนียงน่ารักด้วยครับ =)
ไม่เข้าใจเธอจนกว่าผมจะได้ยินคนไทยพยายามพูดภาษารัสเซีย
I realize you do not put spaces in writing Thai.
@@Dan-xx5jq I dunno why they do it btw, sentences are still composed from individual words, so it's quite strange.
But it's not as a big of a deal as Thai letters being so small on computer screens. Some of my friends have bad eye-sight and it really stops them from learning Thai, they just can't read it.
@@Dan-xx5jq ภาษาไทย มีการเว้นวรรคที่แตกต่างจากภาษาอื่น เช่น ภาษาอังกฤษที่จะเว้นวรรคตามคำศัพท์ แต่ภาษาไทยมีการรวมและเว้นวรรคเป็น"ประโยค"คำพูด☺️
รวมคำศัพท์เป็น1ประโยค....เว้นวรรค....
@@Dan-xx5jq we can do that because
1. vowels and consonants are always seperate: ("weareironman" "we are ironman" this confuse are found in english but "a" and "i" cannot on first letter in thai so it will easier to read like sentense "wegotojail")
2. thai word have no long compound end sound as consonants("enhancement" will be "enhanmen") and all letter in word much have voice ( "dept" will be "det") so after read it, you will feel easy to pronouce and each pronouce will be align to have meaning
3. one thai syllable useally short so it like normally sentense are "wegotojail" "panflytoleg"
note1: if you study thai you will know some word also have silence voice because it is from other language but it also easy to seperate because it alway at last of word and have special charecter to warn you " ์ "
note2: if you study thai you will thing we have compound sound it because some compound sound are already in vowels ( "foreign" sound "ei" can use one vowels " เ ")
That was brilliant. Loved how happy the Korean dude was. He loves Thailand and this made his day.
Sometimes as a westerner in Thailand we tend to forget that just about every culture and peoples also love Thailand. Evidenced here with multiple nations having a go.
Well said champ!!
Nice of that Thai policeman to buy you the pineapple and coconut. I love living in Bangkok.
As a Thai person, it's nice to see foreigners or just other people try to learn our language. It's really hard and even I sometimes struggle to read some of the words. Also, I actually went to that store with my parents many times. I was thinking why the surroundings were looking so strange and familiar.
เราดูคลิปไปยิ้มไปตลอดคลิปเลย คุณน่ารักมาก ขอบคุณที่รักเมืองไทย ขอบคุณที่รักภาษาไทย😍💖🙏
ผมยิ้มกว่า
Hey Paddy. I thought this was a fun clip until the end when you said you'd been there 4 hours! That seems crazy pitiful about how many foreign people don't read - which likely means they don't speak well either. I feel sad for the farang community. Speaking (and reading) Thai helps so much to show respect for this great place we live. Thanks for making Thai language fun.
@@ShadyD365 I hear what you're saying David and definitely Asoke would be a low concentration of Thai readers. For me, speaking, reading and writing Thai is one way to show respect for this wonderful place and I feel that the foreign community could do a better job of honoring Thai culture. So I say, "good for you!" for wanting to learn Thai! Classroom learning is my favorite because you can meet new friends. I also have a tutor who I meet online that I would recommend.
ดีใจเห็นคนต่างชาติอ่านภาษาไทยได้
I studied spoken Thai for 5 years painstakingly (by my self) before kicking it off with the script and here's my only tip for foreigners trying to learn Thai: START WITH THE SCRIPT! Trust me it makes a huge difference on how fast you learn the language.
I'm half Thai, moved away when I was young so I can speak broken Thai and understand more but not to a high level. How did you go about learning the script? I feel like it would make a huge difference if I could actually vocalise written Thai?
@@connorkapooh2002 Just multiple online using teaching videos. There's A LOT of memorizing regarding rules and stuff but once you just get a grasp of the basics you already have the building blocks for the rest. For me, as a Finnish person studying Thai in English i found the most difficult part to be trying to get a grasp of the transliteration in English. But when i started studying the script i understood how the sounds work (and also that we have the same vowels in Finnish, minus the tonality and throaty/nasal aspects) and that the consonants aren't just K, G, T like in English but that there are multiple different soundings to them that have different rules and meanings when paired with one another. ok i made this sound a lot more complicated than it is... The thing that takes the most time is memorizing which class a consonant is (thus which tone the word is said in when there is no tone marking above the letter). Just look out any tutorials. The one that cracked it for me is Thaipod101 on TH-cam. Good luck! You already know the language (even if it is broken) so you'll get a grasp of it in no time!
@@connorkapooh2002
Hello everyone!
We are new AMWF content creator.
I'm from Bangkok and my gf's from Scotland.
Jay(my gf) has been learning Thai.
Have a nice day/evening everyone!
🇹🇭🇬🇧
Paul and Jay
@@connorkapooh2002 learn thai with Kruu Waree on youtube
@@connorkapooh2002 use the old Manee and Friends textbooks and flash cards for vowels consonants and tone diacritic rules. I taught my half Thai son to read and write this way
What a great experiment. I wonder if there were any foreigners who walked past you and can read Thai, but didn't want to be seen with you because they thought you were a farang bumming money. 😅🤣 Great content Paddy. Well done.
Most of the students in my Thai class in Bangkok were from East Asia, so it doesn't surprise me there were a Japanese and Korean who got the money.
This video encouraged me to learn to read and write Thai and today I can! Thanks mate! ❤🎉
Love it with that Korean guy said he would treat his "MIA" a meal.. lol you know that he has been here long enough. Love this content !
This is so incredibly wholesome, especially the Korean dude. I loved the whole energy of this. Keep up the good work paddy!
โอ๊ยยยน่ารักมากเลย ดีใจที่พวกคุณพูดไทยได้ น่ารัก
ชอบคนเกาหลี พูดไทยชัดเจนที่สุด
0:22 - Omg, "Hermionong" in the background. Made me think of FreenBecky 😍
The airport would be a perfect location! It would be full of foreigners and you could possibly find that one Western tourist that could read it. It was a lot of fun and it would great if you had more takers...the airport would be a great location.
The location he’s standing is also full of tourist and foreigner… as I’m Thai I think he picked the right location too 🤍
Hahaha the korean guy was so cute! He was so happy! I wish I was there. I would have gotten that 500 baht easily 😉😉😉💪💪💪🥰🥰🥰
Hey Paddy you encouraged me to start learning thai again. I've been married to a Thai woman for 6 years and this year in Thailand I could see how disappointed the mother was that I still don't understand her. I have taken many of your tips to heart and will practice a lot with your videos and my wife.
Do your best!
His is easily the best channel Thai channel 😂😂 This was so funny!! For your info, I could almost read it, but not quite
That was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks, Paddy
คอนเทนมีความสร้างสรรค์ดีมาก ❤❤❤
Paddy, this was really enjoyable, I’ve been intrigued by the Thai writing, wish I had a resource to learn it, with all the vowels and tone symbols!!
Paddy, you have so much good lesson material in your speech for those of us learning to speak Thai. How about an epilogue in your videos where you go over some key phrases and vocabulary to explain word usage, sentence structure. Or alternatively having it as a stand alone video. I know I like to learn Thai by watching casual conversation with subtitles and essentially 'copying' phraseology but in Thai we know it's not that easy because of various reasons. Consider it!
Something I have definitely considered! Just takes a bit of time. Thanks for watching!
@@ThaiTalkwithPaddy ดีมาก! Love from Australia. 😁🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏
I'm Thai, I hired 3 private Japanese language teachers and one of them can speak Thai. and speaks very well She said it took 3 years of learning Thai She always said that Thai language is very difficult.
Love this! Keep it up Paddy! I lived in Japan for 20 years and teach Japanese now, so I know how rewarding something like this can be for learners!
เป็นคอนเทรนที่สนุกมากครับ ดูเพลินๆ มาก คนที่ชนะได้รับเงินเข้าดูมีความสุขกับคอนเทรนนี้มาก :))
ชอบที่แพดดี้พูดภาษาไทยไพเพราะ และพูดชัดมาก / ต่างจากวัยรุ่นต่างชาติที่พูดไทยหลายคน พูดไม่เพราะเลย คำแสลงเยอะ และนั่นก็สะท้อนตัวบุคคลเอง
เห็นด้วยอย่างยิ่งค่ะ เท่าที่ติดตามมาและสังเกต คุณแพดดี้พูดจาสุภาพ แสดงว่าศึกษามาเป็นอย่างดี รู้ว่าอะไรสุภาพไม่สุภาพ ไม่มีกูมึง หรือคำต่างๆ ที่บางคนคิดว่าพูดแล้วโก้เก๋ โดยไม่รู้ว่านั่นน่ะมันทำให้คนพูดเองดูไม่ให้เกียรติคนฟัง หรือคนอื่นที่ได้ยิน บางคนชอบพูดคำแสลง คำสบถต่างๆ เหมือนจะเก่งภาษาไทย ซึ่งมันไม่ใช่ คนเก่งจริงคือคนที่นอกจากจะพูดจะฟังได้รู้เรื่องแล้ว น้ำเสียงและท่าทางยังต้องสุภาพ และรู้กาลเทศะด้วย นั่นแหละเก่งจริง
Love you paddy. You are awesome guy.
Awesome video. I'm trying to learn to read thai so it's cool to see these foreigners try their best.
Is heart warming to see Thai police friendliness... and they even take part in commenting.... yes... oy in Thailand
I do love this content please do more Paddy
Paddy this was so good. I can speak and understand but I can not read Thai
this was an entertaining and enjoyable video! thank you for making this vid
It was nice to see the happy faces of the people who won🙂
Paddy!!! This was such an exiting experiment!! I really enjoyed watching - would love a 2nd part !!! Keep doing ur thing man. Love ur content
Love the Korean guy. He’s so funny
I can read and write the lao language, now you've motivated me even more to finally learn how to read and write Thai. It's similar but still different. Good video mate👍🏻
Lao has a lot fewer exceptions than Thai and fewer different letters that make the same sound, so it's like Thai but more logical and therefore easier.
Loved this Paddy. Asian people are the sweetest! I think us farang would have liked to try but been too embarrassed. We are a strange kind 😅
your hand writing in Thai is much better than mine LOL
These videos always make me laugh hahaha thanks Paddy
Ha... Brilliant vlogging Paddy, I was in stitches 🤣 More please 🙏❤️🇹🇭
Haha awesome concept Paddy, kudos to the winners especially the Korean guy Song Chan! 😊
คุณพูดไทยเก่งมาก😍👍
Interesting experiment, although i think for most european/american/australian people, it will be just a little bit too hard. Just because of most people only learn to speak words and sentences in Thai language. Try the same experiment with some sentences on some farang and you will see different answers. Keep up the good work Paddy! Always looking forward to see your next video! Greetings from Belgium!
คนเกาหลีน่ารักมากกกกก ตอนได้เงินคือไหว้ขอบคุณเร็วมากเหมือนเป็นคนไทยเลย5555555555555
Your video's dope! so Funny & so much Enjoy.
ขอบคุณมากครับ วีดิโอสนุกมากๆ
Most interesting Paddy. I am learning to read Thai right now starting with the consonants. Leaving the vowels and tone marks to later....Yaak !
เป็นภาระะกิจที่น่ารักมากครับ
If only you had this challenge around end of december, i could have gotten the price too hahaha not to mention i was in siam almost everyday when we were there last dec. Thank you for the vid. Had lots of fun watching it ❤ the korean guy’s vibe is giving 😂
great video.. wish i'd been in bangkok! อ่านภาษาไทยได้!
ชอบรีแอคเกาหลี ดูสนุกดี😄
ขอบคุณที่มาเที่ยวที่ประเทศไทยครับ
Really like this content so much fun there. Love to see foreigner speaks their non-native language to each other 😝🥰
The biggest thing I miss about dating an asian girl is going to an asian markets being completely clueless. Helping out the best that I could, which wasn't much.
Awesome video Paddy, surprised only Asian born people could read it, I was hoping a Western born person would do it. Love you channel 🙏
Thanks for watching Robert! Means a lot
เก่ง อ่า ที่ พูด ภาษาไทยได้ สุดยอดเลย ติดตามแล้วนะจ้า 😊 ฝรั่ง ด้วยกัน คง งง อ่า
Another fun video to watch Paddy! Very wholesome! Keep up great content!
Good fun! But it just proves the point that very few Farangs can read or even speak Thai.
Not expecting much from tourists though, but those who live in the country should at least give it a go 😉
Plenty of farangs can speak and read Thai to an advanced level, but have taken their western ways with them to Thailand and do not interact with anyone who is not in their close circle of friends or colleagues. Bangkok expats especially are an anti-social bunch who mostly wouldn't give each other the light of day. I'd say some Thai speaking farangs must have passed Paddy and totally ignored him, not taking the time to read the sign.
I believe that the Thais who stop to actually read the sign find this act hilarious.
For anyone wondering, Thai is very hard to read. I'm presently trying for the second time, but I've actually been in Thailand twice in the last five months.
Thai is one of the easiest languages to learned. Same concept as English..just sounding the consonents out. The vowels are even simpler.
@@TinyHippoEnglish I've never seen the vowels come before the consonants when their sound comes after the consonants in English.
@@TinyHippoEnglish I don't think so. I'm Thai and Thai language is pretty hard for me too lol
Ya i think thai language is easy for speaking but reading and writing are most hard one.
To be honest, it's not that hard. I lived in Thailand for 11 months already and i can speak and read, but write just a little (can do it on phone pretty fast). I was always wondering why Thais think my Thai skill is good, because i always feel like it's pretty bad and switching to english can be required in long dialogs, but - "คุณพูดภาษาไทเก่งมักครับ/คะ".
Looking at these farangs who live here so long, but don't bother learning Thai now answers all my questions.
When i first heard Paddy talk about learning Thai, he said it took 8 months to become fluent for him, and i agree. I actually was studying hard for first half of year, but after that it just snowballs by itself.
When i discuss languages with Thais, we agree that Russian is harder to learn/master than Thai.
ทำคลิปสนุกดีค่ะ ดูไปยิ้มไปด้วยค่ะ
ธรรมดาที่เห็นชาวต่างชาติพูดภาษาของประเทศตนได้ก็จะรู้สึกดีมาก ดูไปก็ยิ้มไปอารมณ์นั้นแหละ
I love it !This is fun experiment. Please do more video Paddy. Next time you might add some English caption otherwise they will think that you are a homeless asking for money lol. 😁
If only foreigners know the secret of the Thai letter, studying Thai will be a breeze. Thai language is different from English in a way that you all would learn English by first listening ,and speaking , and later on, if any, reading and then writing. But if you are not born here in Thailand, the best way to learn the Thai language is imho to learn the alphabet first. They look terrifying at first but give a month try and then you will realize they so easy to grasp. Learning how to speak Thai without learning the alphabet will later on give you nothing to reinforce on and thus eventually forgetting most of the words.
Not quite. I'm a language enthusiast and know half a dozen alphabets and I've been to Thailand at least six or seven times and I still struggle to read Thai. Some of the letters have similar shapes and some letters are quite rare but look similar to common letters, some fonts have really different shapes and it's hard to figure out what letter it is, and the spelling is quite tricky, but of course more logical than English. And then trying to work out what tone to pronounce for each syllable is something I haven't even began to master. For comparison, learning to read Korean took maybe one hour and learning to read Georgian took two days, maybe three. But Thai is easier to read for me than Tibetan or Mongolian at least (-:
@@andrewdunbar828 you may be right cause I don't know Korean or other language I only know English, chinese and Thai (i'm native Thai). But give it a month try and you may be surprised. After you feel at ease with the Thai alphabets, the way they join to make word and form pronunciation is automatically intuitive. Cheers.
@@planb2504 Before covid I gave it two months, which was already not my first time trying and I've just given it 45 days. Hopefully I'll be back again later in the year to try another time (-:
@@andrewdunbar828 you may wanna start with this or similar cartoon clip. Don't underestimate it even they were meant to use for teaching kids. th-cam.com/video/5DuODWIHHUg/w-d-xo.html
@@planb2504 Actually I've tried children's materials for language learning before thinking it would be great because children by definition are learning and the vocabulary will be limited and sentences will be simple. But it turns out children's material tends to be too repetitive for adults, there tends to be vocabulary that's fun for kids but not something you'd use often, farm animals is one example. Overall most is not engaging enough to keep an adult interested.
This is my general observation that I'm saying before I watch the video you link, which I will do now (-:
Great, I like your video, Thank a lotfor you show my langluage to foreigners👍💖🌹
I feel so ashamed as I don't know one symbol in their language....it just looks so difficult as the script is different and there are so spaces. Just looks like something from a different planet. It is amazing that you mastered it. The Thai people love the fact that a foreigner learned their language.
Hey Dan. I totally get how daunting Thai script looks. And yet I'd still encourage you to take your first reading and writing class. Pausing Paddy's video and reading his sign is incredibly satisfying. You can get there. I mean if I can (and I'm crap with language) I think you can for sure! Message me if I can suggest places to start. Cheers.
คลิปน่ารัก แค่อ่านภาษาไทยออกก็ได้ตังค์ละ
ลายมือ เขียนตัวหนังสือไทยสวยมากคะ👍
สุดยอดมากครับ คอนเทนต์ดีมากๆ ติดตามให้แล้วนะครับ
แพดดี้ลายมือสวยนะครับ 👍
Your Thai handwriting is good 😃
That was great Paddy, cheers mate.
คุณเขียนภาษาไทยได้สวยงามมากค่ะ
I love this content it so fun mak mak krub waiting for EP 2 na
Very kool! Makes me want to learn more Thai!
น่ารักจังเลย เป็นกำลังใจให้ทำช่องดีๆแบบนี้ต่อไปนะคะ จาก คนไทยค่า🎉
Great idea Paddy! I'd have won the money if you were doing that here in CM 😋
Bro has better Thai handwriting than me and I'm a native 💀💀💀💀
I have been in Thailand for 4 months going on 5, and my ability to read Thai is non-existent. Apart from English (obviously), the fact that Thai uses an alphabetical writing system is actually one of the hard parts for me as I only know Chinese characters and the Roman alphabet. The whole idea of marking vowels and consonants on top or below other vowels and consonants is completely foreign to me, along with some words having weird rules about silent vowels / consonants where you still have to put something down.
In a general sense, despite being a tonal language, Thai belongs to a completely different family than the Sino-Tibetan languages and is also less influenced by Chinese (more by Indian, Khmer and even English / European languages) than something like Vietnamese. I can guess the meanings of some Viet words because they’re so similar to Chinese, but can’t really do that for Thai as many Thai words have Khmer / Sanskrit / Western roots.
Ironically, the fact that Thai contains so many loanwords is also one of the harder parts for me. They’re well, English but not really English. Chinese but not really Chinese. If I say them in their proper pronunciations I’ll more than likely not be understood.
Thai in my opinion is also not a very “logical” / “straightforward” language compared to Chinese. It feels very roundabout when the same concept or the same message I’m trying to convey could be said in only a few words in Chinese. Chinese might be the exception in terms of its directness, so when I’m picking up Thai, it’s hard for me to mentally get into the mode that something needs to be expressed in a more “gentle” and indirect way.
For example, “can you eat xxx food” in Thai would need to be answered as “gin dai” (can eat). In Chinese I could say “可以吃” (can eat), but a lot of times we simply say “吃” (eat) as the affirmative.
I actually find your statement intriguing. I've always thought that Chinese speakers shouldn't have hard time learning Thai, compared to the Europeans. Yes, many loanwords are from Khmer, Pali, and Sanskrit but most basic expressions derived from similar "sentiment" to Chinese, although not the same or similar words to Chinese.
In fact, most Thais have fewer difficulties learning Chinese (apart from reading and writing), compared to when they learn other European languages. Not to mention the tones, Thais can easily master it.
I'm Thai myself and used to learn mandarin. After just 6 months I already felt comfortable conversing in basic mandarin (more than tourist survival phrases).
คลิปสนุกไอเดียดี รอคลิปต่อไปค่ะ
Good video, my only suggestion would have been to have the large sign shown to the camera at the beginning of the video without you reading it to us. That way "we at home" could have had a chance to try our reading skills. (The "struggling, struggling" moment was close but blurry).
All of them are Asian! I wish I was there too, to get 500 baht. Love your channel from Japan ✌️🇯🇵
Ever since I watched Girl From Nowhere, I really love the language now.
Paddy นายหล่อมาก ขอบใจที่รักประเทศของเรา❤❤❤
ขอบคุณมากครับ 🙏
ดีมากแพดดี้ อยากให้ทำคอนเท้นส์แบบนี้อีก แต่ไม่ต้องจ่าย500บาทก็ได้ อาจจะเป็นรางวัลอะไรสักอย่าง สำหรับชาวต่างชาติที่ทำได้ เป็นการเทสสกิลชาวต่างชาติที่มาเมืองไทย อาจจะเป็นคำถามต่างๆเกี่ยวกับเมืองไทยก็ได้
Good idea. I love this clip.
Oh that was fun! I'd still fail it probably but I'm working on it D:
เป็นคลิปที่น่ารักมากกก เราเพิ่งเปิดมาเจอค่ะ
ชอบคอนเท้นท์...น่ารักมาก
Was interesting to see something different. I would love to try this myself in Bangkok but as a hopeless introvert holding any sign in public would make me feel like Bruce Willis's character holding a sign in Die Hard 3.
"I hate Thais". ;)
เอาอีกเอาอีก ชอบคลิปแบบนี้
ชอบกิจกรรมแบบนี้ครับพี่ ตำรวจน่ารักมากครับ ดูแลอบอุ่น
Love your content ❤
Nice vid. Keep it up bro
ลายมือสวยมาก (very beautiful handwriting)
คนญี่ปุ่นก็เก่งมากยิ่งมาก คนเกาหลีเขาดีใจและภูมิใจสุดๆไปเลย
Love this!
Haha love it! can you make a video speak Isan for a bit? That would be fun
Great idea! Hope that at least the expats that came across, unable to read it, will now sign up at the next language school 😄😉