{"id":2608,"date":"2016-04-13T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T05:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2016-04-13T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T05:28:24","slug":"thai-sentences-celebrate-songkran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2608-thai-sentences-celebrate-songkran","title":{"rendered":"Thai sentences to celebrate Songkran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, today is April 13, the official start of\u00a0<strong>Songkran celebrations in Thailand<\/strong>, the Buddhist New Year. And who says New Year, says\u00a0wishes for the new year. Here is a small selection of Thai phrases that might be useful today\u00a0and in the coming days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8437\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-bangkok-09-600x40111.jpg\" alt=\"songkran thailande\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rituel de Songkran au Wat Phra Kaew de bangkok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before you go out and enjoy\u00a0water fights, take a few minutes to watch this video lesson made by Mod who\u00a0teaches Thai with nice video courses on Youtube and <a href=\"http:\/\/learnthaiwithmod.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">her blog<\/a>. She also gives private lessons via Skype. You will learn a few sentences\u00a0used during <a href=\"\/en\/events-thailand\/songkran-thai-new-year-4\"><strong>Thai Songkran festival<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6a-ReM7q0r0?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Expressions in Thai to celebrate Songkran<\/h2>\n<p><em>Note that if you are a woman, you will \u00a0hae to finish your sentence with &#8220;kha&#8221; and if you are a man with &#8220;krap&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Sawasdee pee ma\u00ef tha\u00ef\u00a0 kha \/ krap<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em>Happy thai new year !<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Suk san wan pee ma\u00ef tha\u00ef\u00a0<\/strong><strong>kha \/ krap<br \/><\/strong>Happy New Year&#8217;s day !<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Suk san\u00a0wan Songkran\u00a0<\/strong><strong>kha \/ krap<br \/><\/strong>Happy\u00a0Songkran !<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Thiao ha\u00ef sanook na\u00a0kha \/ krap<br \/><\/em><\/strong><em>Enjoy your holidays<br \/>(Songkran is public holidays<\/em><em>)<\/em><strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Len Songkran ha\u00ef sanook na\u00a0kha \/ krap<br \/><\/em><\/strong><em>Enjoy playing Songkran !<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope this little glossary will help you speak a little Thai\u00a0for Songkran.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, to go further in learning the language, please have a look on\u00a0our <a href=\"\/en\/videos-thailand\/learn-thai-2\" target=\"_blank\">Thai course videos page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We wish a good\u00a0long weekend of festivities in Thailand to all expatriates and traveler who are\u00a0currently in the country !<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, today is April 13, the official start of\u00a0Songkran celebrations in Thailand, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","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=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}