'Ying' or 'Pooying'?

[manarak]

The rosetta stone taught me "pooying" and "poochai" for girl and boy.

My dictionary says just ying and chai?


So... Sorry I have to ask... where does the poo come from?

[PigDogg]

(manarak @ Jul. 06 2009,12:24) where does the poo come from?  

[Naang Faa]

Manarak- Poo means person (human) so Poo ying= female person
x

[manarak]

Two different yet correct answers from PigDogg and Naang Faa !

Thank you Naang Faa!



Thai is the first language I encountered that is almost easier to speak than to understand!

[si geena]

As Naang pointed out, Poo refers to person.

1. Poo Yai (Big Person) Meaning ranges from adults to literally the senior hierarchy people of the village.

2. Poo Jat Gaan (Person who arranges/sorts matters) Manager

3. Poo Cha Na (Winning Person) Victor of some match or game

4. Poo Tao (Old Person) Literally a person getting on in life.

For Ying and Chai, they refer to gender.

1. Dek Ying (Female Child) Girl

2. Dek Chai (Male Child) Boy

3. Jao Ying (Female Prince) Princess

4. Jao Chai (Male Prince) Prince

5. Rong Rian Ying (Female School) Girls School

Hope it helps

[rxpharm]

si geena you're becoming quite fluent in Thai - handy for talking with the in-laws?

[manarak]

(si geena @ Jul. 07 2009,09:26) As Naang pointed out, Poo refers to person.

1. Poo Yai (Big Person) Meaning ranges from adults to literally the senior hierarchy people of the village.

2. Poo Jat Gaan (Person who arranges/sorts matters) Manager

3. Poo Cha Na (Winning Person) Victor of some match or game

4. Poo Tao (Old Person) Literally a person getting on in life.

For Ying and Chai, they refer to gender.

1. Dek Ying (Female Child) Girl

2. Dek Chai (Male Child) Boy

3. Jao Ying (Female Prince) Princess

4. Jao Chai (Male Prince) Prince

5. Rong Rian Ying (Female School) Girls School

Hope it helps

Thanks!

That nicely fills some empty spots in my brain - LOL.

But are the Rosetta Stone's teachings correct?

I mean, they say "dek poochaaai" for young boy and "dek pooyinggg" for young girl - I suppose both ways are correct and the Rosetta Stone is just being more verbose?

[Naang Faa]

You can also use saao..

Pee saao - older sister
Nong Saao -younger sister
Luk saao - daughter

and everybodys favorite-

saao bpra pheht song - second type woman (Ladyboy)

x

[si geena]

Well, I've no actual experience with Rosetta Stone.

But I've used Pimsleur and Thai for Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced series. Suffice to say, the approach is to teach the most formal register. In this case, one doesn't end up offending people.

I'm sure for most of us, hell, 99% of us, probably interact with a lower register of Thai. So in such situations, one doesn't go around addressing the waitress and server boys as Khun, which may be the only "Other" pronoun taught under Pimsleur and other Thai-Learning aids.

I suggest if you do want to take your learning to the next level, do learn the Thai script. Once you do so, you'll find a whole new world opening up.

[si geena]

(rxpharm @ Jul. 07 2009,04:30) si geena you're becoming quite fluent in Thai - handy for talking with the in-laws?  

My Thai is improving, but her English has correspondingly deteriorated.

And she wants to try Mandarin, so that she can talk to my folks!