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I use to work with a bunch of Lao people and I could not for the life of me understand when they were speaking Thai to meOriginally Posted by the north west
Originally Posted by MC OTAKU
damn I thought I was the only one! I see you playa..
Sabaidee tuk tuk khon....Khon Lao here checking in. Gu hen meung.
they had to keep repeating themselves 3 or 4 times
I take it you speak bangkokian dialect? Can you understand northern(CM/CR) or north eastern(isan) dialect too? When Lao folks try to speak Thai it usuallysounds like one of the northern Thai dialects and usually a lil off if they haven't learned it formally. I was surprised to find that some central Thaishave a hard time understanding Muang(CM dialect) or Isan or even southern(which sounds more Malay or Khmer than Thai.) pom pood pasaa Thai nit noi. My greatgrandpa migrated from isan north to Laos. We have families on each side of the Mekong.