About the Thai language 

Hi Julie, I'm Thai and I'd like to say your video is amazing! It can explain almost everything about Thai. Also the graphics and information about Thailand. Thank you for sharing our language and culture to the world.

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As a passionate linguist, I always like to discover new channels on youtube focusing on linguistics :). I've watched a few videos on your channel and I appreciate a lot your clear and well-structured presentation of the information, it makes it easier to follow. And I'm so impressed by your mastery of the pronunciation of such difficult languages like Thai or Georgian! I'm subscribing, to encourage you :).

I studied Thai language and culture at university, so none of this is new to me, however, I still found this video very interesting and it was presented beautifully.

As a foreigner who lives in Thailand and speaks, reads, and writes Thai, I loved this presentation. Thorough and in depth. I had to pause the video at 2:54 to laugh hysterically at that map meme showing the Thai variations! 5555 Poor Khmer-Isaan (the purple strip on the Cambodian border). Though I have to admit I have trouble understanding people in The South.

I like it. Love towards different languages is something in common between me and you. Appreciate your hard work !!!

I watched a few different videos on the Thai language, and yours was easily the best. I love your approach to summarizing such a huge amount of linguistic information. Your passion for languages is inspiring!

One of the best summaries I’ve seen for the challenges and fun of learning the Thai language. Having spent many years learning it and living in Thailand, I think your description is spot on. But don’t worry, the alphabet and complex tone rules actually become intuitive after enough practice. I can look at a word now and mostly get the tone correct without much analysing.

Thank you for the whole language series you are creating! Your approach is very interesting and illustrative.

Thankyou Julie ☺️ I appreciate the sincere and honouring commitment you have to the different languages you present. I have lived and studied in Thailand and love the culture and its people. And so l valued the way you shared Thailand and its language with us.

I'm so passionate about languages, and this is so interesting! Love how you choose lesser known or less spoken-of languages. I'm excited to learn more with each video!

Hey I just wanted to say I love your videos, I love how in-depth you go into the different topics and the fact that you talk about languages that not a lot of people care about! :) Can't wait for your next one!

Hi Julie. I love your videos. This one I can comment on as an expert, and all your info is accurate. I loved how you gathered all the "mood particles" into one place. All I could add is that I have used tables to condense all of the Thai writing rules into two pages, plus another page of irregulars.

Thank you Ju! This was a great presentation and it clarified many things for me.

I don't know what amazes me more, your detailed exposition of this language's phonology or your prefect pronunciation of Thai tones. Keep up your great work.

I love that you always talk not just about the language features but also about the culture of the people who speak it, really cool, keep up the good work :D

Thanks Julie. Another wonderful language video for a language I've never thought much about. Excellent graphics. Everything looks good. One finesse point. The fence behind you is in focus more than you. Use a broom or some object to focus upon where you will be standing. Although the soft focus on your face isn't distracting. More languages please!

This was very informative, I love how this particular language sounds and I appreciated learning about it. I hope to go to Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia soon. Thank you!

Thank you very much. I nearly want to skip this one but can’t help checking it out. You are extraordinarily to grasp the essence of Thai language.

Great Thai information video and explained very well. I enjoyed the humor and the history as well . Thank you.

This is a very informative video; thanks a lot for sharing it. I have been looking for a starting point to learn Thai and I have just found one!

I've learned SO much in the last 12 hours. You are the best!

Hey Julie, I’m Thai and I actually learned things I’m not aware of. You’re pronunciation is actually quite good. I really enjoy your content. Great work!

Awesome! What a great video! Thank you

you're amazing, thank you for these videos!

I have been following your channel since the first clip, and feel very glad that you explored my mothertongue. :) Wow, you pronounce Thai very well. How did you manage to get the tones right? This is impressive indeed! I have many Russian friends who have spent years learning Thai but still can't get the tones right. You made some slight errors though. "No" is ไม่ not ไหม. And, ขนมจีน doesn't mean Chinese noodles. ขนมจีน is the name of a kind of sticky rice noodles originated by the Mons. The word จีน in this context doesn't mean Chinese as it usually means in other contexts, but it is a Mon word meaning "to rice", i.e. pressing through a ricer. ขนม originally means "dough" in the Mon language, though it means "snack" in Thai. Therefore, ขนมจีน literally means "riced dough". Not many Thais know this etymology either.

Thank you for your video on Thai. So fascinating - and so different!

The way you said "sawatdee kha!" was so sweet! I´m looking forward to a video about Portuguese (specially the brazilian one) :))

Another fascinating and well-done video, and I hope you'l excuse me for saying that wherever you are, the place suits you perfectly. You've never been more lovely!

JuLingo, I loved your video!! I also liked a lot your recent video about Khmer language!! :D I like the structure and the interesting facts you mention in the video. I'm gonna watch more of your videos! Hope you keep doing these videos!

Julie, as always,, an excellent video!

Excelente idea de esta chica, de recorrer el mundo y mostrar los idiomas !!! muy bonito tema. Sigue asi Julie !!!

You are really clever. Thanks a lot for your teaching :) I really love it, as a Thai man.

Fun facts: 4:12 - In 1942, Thai government used to reduce the consonant letters from 44 letters to 31 and stop using 5 complementary symbols but when the next cabinet ministers were appointed by the representatives after the previous prime minister's resignation in 1944. they cancelled the three cultural mandates and brought back all removed letters and complementary symbols. 10:43 - "ขนมจีน" (English: Khanom chin, pronounced [Khà-nŏm-jeen]) actually means "Thai rice noodle" or "Hanom Cin", a food of Mon, an ethnic group who speak an Austroasiatic language and inhabit Myanmar's Mon State, some districts in the Bangkok metropolitan region, etc. the word Khanom chin is derived from the Mon words: "Hanom" means "to make something into a cluster" and "Cin" means "cooked". but in Thai, "ขนม"(Khanom) means "snack", "sweets", or "dessert" and derived from "ข้าวนม"[Khào-nom] or "ข้าวหนม"[Khào-nŏm] means "food made of flour". "Khào" means "rice" and "Nom/Nŏm" came from the Khmer word "នំ" [Nom] means the same as "ข้าวนม" and "จีน"(Chin) means "China". so "ขนมจีน" also means "Chinese snack, sweets, or dessert" because Thai-speaking people often avoid to use the preposition "ของ" [khŏng] or "of" in many noun phrases and "ขนมของจีน"[Khà-nŏm-khŏng-jeen] is the full form of the phrase.

nice and informative! keep up the good work!

You explain it so well, good job !

WoW nice to see. It brings me back some nice memories when I use to live in Surin and speak Thai, Khmer,Lao

Great research Julie. Thank you.

Hi Julie, I really like your channel and the way you organize different sections. I am from Mexico, live in USA and love to travel and work in different countries. I want to learn Russian but I find it so difficult from a native Spanish speaker :( excellent work! Keep it up!

Interesting! In English too you would use different words for "eat", won't you? I'm eating with my friend, I'm dining with the queen, birds consume seeds. though it's not exactly the same... I love thai food, every Songkran (Thai new year) the Thai community where I live sells food and it's the best! fascinating language a video, love your channel!

Hi Julie, I just want to say you made a great video of Thai language through history, geography and cultural life. I'm travelling to Thailand this summer. (My plan is May if the Coronavirus isn't an issue like right now.) Hopefully, I can speak some Thai when I'm there because I really love languages and want to understand more abt the culture and people so please make friends Thai friends if you read this comment.

I love your video! Your clip gives me another point of view about thai language as a native thai like me never noticed Great work 😃😃

Wow thank you for this video! Didn’t know the Thai language is so colourful and complex.

You should also explore some of the Tai-Kradai languages in China, cause I feel that they are often being ignored. The highest diversity of the Tai-Kradai family is in Southern China, with several sub-families living in close proximity to one another, such as the Ong-Be, the Hlai, the Northern Tai, the Central Tai, and the Kra. Tai-Kradai definitely shared a close origin with the Austronesians, cause even today there are some Tai-Kradai languages that preserve words similar to Austronesian, in particular the Hlai and the Buyang.

Cool videos so far, Subscribed. Upload more soon!

Very thorough! Good job!

Thak you for sharing about the Thai language. It's so nice for me.

Greetings from Bangkok 🙏😊

thank you so much for a very informative video. Even I am Thai, I don't know these details as I speak the language commonly in my daily life.

Every location video is shot in a different place, and it makes me wonder if you shoot every video on location :p I just found your channel and watched all the videos. I’m a language nerd, and it’s always fun to listen to this stuff.

Learned a plenty. Good stuff.

Very well and nice teaching. Thank you very much my sister.

Great channel! I'm looking forward to next videos. Maybe some less known European language now? ;) My fascination about Iceland prompted me to learn Icelandic and I found all Nordic languages very interesting and beautiful. Greetings from Poland.

The best video about Thai that I have seen on RU-vid. Just one thing. They are using classifiers, so this one can be a bit tricky. Grammar is not super hard, but it is to easy to make a mistake with classifiers because (I am Croatian) that is something that we do not have in Europe and it takes time to adapt to it. But the language itself is amazing. Tnx for making it short and smart ❤

Thank you very much for this videoooo

Thank you very clear and organized.

Just a big thanks for your work and your talent from France 😉

Amazing video! ❤

Excellent info about the Thai language. I think it convinces me that computers will never outsmart the human brain, doubt all these nuances can be converted to the os and 1s of computer language. There another one for you, Julie. That to us about computer language. Love your videos. Thanks.

I love this video ❤ You really know how to teach

ALL wonderfully interesting videos!!!

top notch material :)

I really enjoy your video. It's concise yet insightful. Keep going Julie! By the way, if you need help in Thai language, please feel free to ask me :)).

Great video...describes the language in a nut shell.

Interesting video as always, thanks ! You made me hungry with those delicious thai dishes *__*

Literally brain is being stretched when watching every one of your videos. It's enlightening.

I noticed that some words are similar to Chinese. Possession is placed after a noun unlike in other languages. Hair and me is pom. So pom pom means my hair. Khun Chris means respectable Chris. But maa khun means your dog. Many words such as singha (Lion) have silent letters at the end so singha is pronounced sing. As you said some of the consonants share the same sounds but are used to mean different words. Vowels can come at the start of a word even if they are pronounced at the end. Tone markers system is very complicated and difficult to remember, best thing is to learn the tone of each word rather than trying to work out the tone. But context can help to avoid misunderstandings. Glai glai means how far? It is silly that glai means near but also far. Letters are written from the circle first. Double words are only written once with a special letter afterwards to donate that the word is said twice. Secondary verbs are often placed at the end of a sentence, just like in German. Tonal languages didn’t start off tonal, they became tonal so that new words didn’t have to be created which is quite lazy. Therefore the number of spoken words is much fewer than in non-tonal languages, only about 20% the quantity of spoken words are necessary. Combining those to make more words reduces the number of spoken words necessary further. To the untrained ear tonal languages are very repetitive.

You made a great video 🎉

Would love to see a video about Greek. Love your profile!

Your pronunciation examples were all Bangkok educated dialect. Average Thai speakers routinely omit the /r/ or switch it to its allophone (in Thai) of /l/. Most vernacular Thai is derived from Chinese. There are many cognates that clearly resemble Cantonese especially the numbers. Tones are important here and many words are monosyllabic. The more formal vocab often derives from Pali and these words are actually easier to use because tone isn't as important in these words. Thai etymology is really fascinating.

Excellent video madam.. Learned a lot about Thai language. God bless you

You're videos are quite informative. i actually enjoy it a lot. my friend beside me while watching your video find your video sleepy. this is just a suggestion with due respect, to somewhat elevate your energy. :) butfor me, love love love your vidsss! God bless! ❤

Thanks for amazing vdo! Anyway, your vdo shows the up-side-down script at 4.53

This video is really good.

Thank a lot for explanation.

i love the take of this, now since you already did cambodia nd thailand, take the easiest one, laos. would love to hear your input, by the way, "sawatdee-ka," you said it perfectly...

You are insanely enchanting

Wow! I was thinking about retiring in Thailand. I would never make it. I will brush up my Spanish & start a new search.

really nice video

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5555555 great video and good summary

Thailand is a beautiful country with great food. Thank you for explaining the language.

Ah ty so much! 💖

You're videos are great. Very informative, and I enjoy your personality. Where are you from originally?

Thank you so much :)

Nice presentation

Regarding your commentary about nicknames, I’m reminded of the book “River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze” by Peter Hessler, a story about living and teaching English in China. In it, he writes about one of his students who chose the nickname “Mo Money.” 💰

As a language buff, I always thought Thai orthography was confusing. Thanks for clearing some things up.

Incredible videos...not bad, not bad at all.

Thank you good job.

You making incredibly interesting videos. Earlier i had wathed another little more popular streamer that makes videos about languages - langfocus chanel. But i prefer your work. You focuse more on unique fitchers and history, less focuse on evry grammar detal. And of course your appierence and voice are astonishing. Also topics you chose fits in what i am intrested in perfectly,

Hey Julie, you did an awesome job on the language and history! Also... เธอสวยมาก 🥰

Julie, you my favvy!!!

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Hi Julie, greetings. Thank you for making these videos. I find your own accent to be particularly interesting! What is your own mother language? Thanks and good luck! You definitely got a sub! :)

The greeting "have you eaten yet" is also used here in europe. Mostly by grandmothers addressing their grandchildrens

So nice

It is amazing that the Thai language - or any tonal language - could adapt the Pallava Grantham alphabet, originally designed for Sanskrit - and still be very effective. I suppose it is like how Greek adapted the phoenician alphabet and passed it on to most of Europe