Pronunciation

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1. How is your N sound?

          If you have difficulty in pronouncing the words in the practice below, turn back to the Hints on Pronunciaton of Unit 4 and review Practice 4.  You should also reread the suggestions for learning how to pronounce N in initial position.

Practice I

 

ไง
Nay

how

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ใน
nay

in

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งั้น

Na2n

like that

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นั้น
na2n

that

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งาม
Naam

to be beautiful

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ง่าย

Na3ay

to be easy

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งอก
NO3Ok

to grow (of plants)

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เงียบ
Ni3ap

to be quiet

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เหงา
Na4w

to be lonesome

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การงาน
kaanNaan

work

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ง่วงนอน

Nu3aNnOOn

to be sleepy

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ทำงานง่าย
tham  Naan   Na3ay

to do easy work

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ข้าวงอกงาม ในนา

kha3aw   NO3ONaam  nay   naa

the rice is growing nicely in the field

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2. Can you keep these words apart?

          The practice below contains five groups of words.  Each group is made up of words which might sound alike to you unless you are able to do all of the following things:

a) Keep the short and long vowels apart.
b) Get the tones right.
c) Keep the aspirated and unaspirated consonants apart
d) Keep the voiced and voiceless unaspirated consonants apart.
e) Keep yy, ya, and ee apart.
f) Keep e and E apart.
g) Keep o and O apart.
h) Keep y and u apart.
i) Keep N and n apart.

 

Practice II

Group 1:

เก่า

ka1w

to be old (of things not alive)

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เก้า

ka3w

nine

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เข้า
kha3w

to enter

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ข้าว
kha3aw

rice

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เขา

kha4w

he, she, they

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ขาว
kha4aw

to be white

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Group 2:

ไป
pay

to go

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ใบ

bay

(clf. for containers, for fruit)

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บ่าย
ba1ay

afternoon

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Group 3:

คน
khon

person

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คง
khoN

sure to

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โกน
koon

to shave

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ก่อน
kO1On

before

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Group 4:

เลือก
lf3ak

to choose

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เลิก
lee3k

to quit

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ลึก
lf2k

to be deep

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ลุก
lu2k

to get up

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ลูก

lu3uk

child

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Group 5:

แกง
kEEN

curry

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เก่ง
ke1N

to be expert

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แข็ง
khE4N

to be hard, strong

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