My first words...

As much as I'd love to have lots of time to commit to language learning, I have to admit that this hasn't been the case.  Between internship, fundraising, parenting, sharing at Care Groups, socializing and everything else that life includes these days, language learning has been at the bottom of the list of priorities (unfortunately).

Thankfully, we're not actually required to do any language study prior to mobilizing, but we decided that we'd like to try to get a bit under our belts before we leave.  So... for now, although the lessons are few and far between, we press on with Rosetta Stone Thai whenever we get the chance (ie: during Callie's naps on our days off :))

Here are just a few of the random words I've learned so far (showing the English word, the Thai word spoken phonetically, and then the thai script.) :

Hello (female speaker)/ Sa-wat-dii-ka / สวัสดี
Thank-you (female speaker)/ Kup-kun-ka / ขอบคุณ
Girl / dek-puu-ying / เด็กผู้หญิง
Boy / dek-puu-chaai / เด็กผู้ชาย
Woman / puu-ying / ผู้หญิง
Man / puu-chaai / ผู้ชาย
Horse / maa / ม้า
Cat / maew / แมว
Dog / su-nakh / สุนัข
Elephant / chaang / ช้าง
Airplane / kruuang-bin / เครื่องบิน
Car / rot / รถ
In / nai / ใน
On / bon / บน
Under / dtaai / ใต้
Red / deeng / สีแดง
Yellow / luuang / สีเหลือง
Blue (sky blue)/ sii-faa / สีฟ้า
White / kaao / ขาว

There are actually quite a few others I could add to the list but I'll leave that for another day... :)