![]() ![]() ![]() You will now have the Thai Dictionaries I found to be the most useful at your disposal.Importance of language converter for a English speaker. I hope this helps you in your journey learning Thai. These 3 websites all have their strengths. To summarize, I recommend using all these 3 sites, , and. ![]() This is why, now I always then check the word with to see the word used with context. Turns out ตาราง actually means table as in an Excel Table. I remember when I first started learning Thai I thought “table” (as in dining table) was ตาราง dtaa-raang because that was google translate’s first result. This helps prevent me from finding definitions I didn’t intend. Then I search for the word using to see the example sentences and make sure the context of the sentence is the context I wanted when I was looking up the word. Then I check google’s suggestions using and I try to find the most commonly used one. I first search for the word in google translate. Normally, when I am looking for how to say something in Thai, this is what I do. You can also click on the audio icon to hear the word being pronounced. ![]() This is extremely useful if you hear a new Thai word but don’t know how to spell it. Make sure to select “Thai” as the language. In case you don’t know how to spell the word in Thai, you can actually type the Thai word using English Transliteration. However, there is a feature that not everyone might know about. I am sure everyone reading has heard of google translate. If you go to the “Open Subtitles” section, it will show you quotes from movies containing the word you searched for. So you can learn the words in the context of a sentence.Īside from having example sentences, dict.longdo also has a section with the words being used in different movies. My favorite part about this website is that is always has example sentences for the words. Lastly, most words also have a couple example sentences at the bottom.ĭict.longdo is another one of my favorite Thai Dictionaries. For example, if you search the particle เนอะ ( núh), which we wrote about here, thai2english will let you know this is a particle and there isn’t a direct English Equivalent. So you can search a few words that all have similar meanings and use the rating to figure out which ones are the more commonly used versions.Īlso, if the word you are searching for is a classifier, or a particle, or has a hard to define meaning – thai2english will let you know. I have found this feature to be very accurate. For example, if you search for ใจ jai meaning heart, thai2english will show you a bunch more words that contain ใจ in it like เข้าใจ, สนใจ, etc.Īnother awesome feature is that thai2english rates words based on if it’s commonly used or not. It really helps for all those tricky looking Thai words that you are just not quite sure how to pronounce.Īn awesome thing about this website is if the word is a “compound” word or is part of other words, it has a list showing you all these words. has the best English Transliteration I have seen. Each have their strengths which I discuss below. Out of all the ones I’ve encountered, the following list are my 3 favorites in no particular order. I have been learning Thai for close to 3 years now and in the process have found the Thai Dictionaries I think are the best and most useful. ![]()
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