Itchy Feet: the Travel and Language Comic: #Thai

Showing posts with label #Thai. Show all posts

Showing posts with label #Thai. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Tonal Trickiness (REMASTER)

Émphasis is evérything

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Fixed Impressions (REMASTERED)

When you don't get the local price because...tourist

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Sunday, September 13, 2020

Practice Duel

Speaking a foreign language with locals who can speak English is often a duel to the linguistic death

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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Eastern Parlance

Untranslatable words in Asian languages like Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Chinese, Tagalog, Malay, Indonesian

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Happy new year!

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Amusing Moniker

Baby names that have funny meanings in different languages

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Na na na na na na na na Patreoooooon

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Speech Figures

Untranslateable Idioms from Around the World - Swedish Kazakh Portuguese Polish Russian Japanese Latvian Thai figures of speech

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Let's all slide shrimpwise together.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Unreal Words

In English we use words that aren't words, like mmm-hmm and a'ight. But they also do in other languages

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A'ight yo, coo'.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Tonal Trickiness

Thailand is crazy. Inflatable crocodiles scare monkeys away from parking lots

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Speaking Terms, Part 2

If you speak Thai language to Thai people, they think it's adorable and polite. If you speak Korean to Koreans, they think Korean is useless and you should learn a more useful language. If you speak a little Chinese Mandarin to Chinese people, they think you're completely fluent.

If you want the European perspective, check out Part 1 of this comic!

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Fixed Impressions

Tourists pay tourist prices. It's how you look, not what you speak

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Tone Deaf

Asian languages aren't the only ones that are tonal. Even English can be tonal