{"id":2521,"date":"2015-12-23T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T08:40:06","slug":"wish-merry-christmas-thai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2521-wish-merry-christmas-thai","title":{"rendered":"How to wish a &#8220;merry Christmas&#8221; in Thai ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day after tomorrow is December 25 and I will learn nothing by saying that it is&#8230;\u00a0Christmas. And even if it is not so much celebrated in Thailand, although due to major\u00a0shopping malls, Christmas spirit is more and more present\u00a0in the country,\u00a0you&#8217;re probably wondering: <strong><em>&#8220;How do we wish Merry Christmas in Thai ? &#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2522\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/merry-christmas-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Thai language\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/merry-christmas-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/merry-christmas-624x417.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/merry-christmas.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merry Christmas !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m create a little\u00a0suspense before answering (even if\u00a0the answer is on the picture above)\u00a0because\u00a0I can not resist ti put first\u00a0a little Christmas song in Thai, illustrated with pictures of Christmas preparations in Chanthaburi. And the answer might be hidden in the videeo \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMYdGEC8Si4?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s easy to say Christmas in Thai. ! Since Christmas did not exist in Thai culture, as often, the English word is used\u00a0to call\u00a0the event. You just have to\u00a0add the word &#8220;day&#8221; which is\u00a0<em>wan<\/em> in Thai in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>Remains to add the phrase that is used\u00a0before all holidays to wish them to be good:\u00a0\u00a0<em>&#8220;suk san&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And so <strong>to say <em>&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;<\/em> in Thai<\/strong>, you can say\u00a0<em><strong>suk san wan Christmas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Thai language, it is written:\u00a0\u0e2a\u0e38\u0e02\u0e2a\u0e31\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e04\u0e23\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e15\u0e4c\u0e21\u0e32\u0e2a<\/p>\n<p>So <em><strong>&#8220;suk san wan Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> to you and your families !\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas and thank you for your supporting\u00a0this blog !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after tomorrow is December 25 and I will learn nothing by saying that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-to-speak-thai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}