czech Senior Member United States Joined 7200 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English*
| Message 1 of 4 03 October 2005 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
How many variations of the Thai R are there?
I've heard the rolled one, the English, and the Chinese one also. Which one is standard and applies to Bangkok?
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czech Senior Member United States Joined 7200 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English*
| Message 2 of 4 03 October 2005 at 8:31pm | IP Logged |
Hey, maybe we should start a list of r's in every language.
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Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7194 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin
| Message 3 of 4 03 October 2005 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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wombat Tetraglot Groupie Australia Joined 7123 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Thai Studies: Mandarin
| Message 4 of 4 03 October 2005 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
Standard Thai 'r' (as prounounced by Bangkok news readers) is a trilled or rolled 'r'.
In ordinary speech (at least to my ear) most people use an 'l' sound or a sound half way between English 'l' and 'r'.
You might be able to hear some good standard Thai spoken here:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/ram/en/live.ram
When it starts up, click on 'Thai' (you can hear the news in 22 different languages at this site).
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