Usual conversations in Hotels?

[Coregunner]

Can anyone post a few sentences of conversations that will take place in a hotel.

from when you walk in, and telling them u wanna check in and stuff.

Eg. Checking in, asking check out times, requesting certain items from Housekeeping and etc. Perhaps there are something else that you guys might think of.

Thanks alot!!!

[Eric67]

Do you mean something like this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-I91UxqIQ

[issanboy]

Most large hotels in Bangkok and tourist areas, will have staff that speaks english.

[Tim]

Here are some examples from our sister site for Thai language learning.

http://www.learningthai.com/speak-th...uesthouse.html
http://www.learningthai.com/listening/at-the-hotel.html
http://www.learningthai.com/listenin...e-hotel-2.html
http://www.learningthai.com/listenin...e-hotel-3.html

[Tod-Daniels]

About the only down side to learning "phrozen-phrazes" in Thai is; once you've run thru the dialog that you know, you're dead in the water.

Plus, nearly every Thai in this country will reply to you in "million-mile-a-minute" Thai thinking (mistakenly) that you speak Thai. It can be a real "buzz-kill".

I concur, the service staff at most every hotel (especially ones which get foreigners) will know enough engrish (what passes for English here in Thailand) to know the phrases which go with their specific job at the hotel.

Usually if you speak SLOWLY and CLEARLY the Thais will understand.

Don't feel you hafta "dumb down" your English to that "baby-talk-engrish" foreigners who've been here a while use when speaking to Thais.

Still, if you want some of the common phrases you've been directed to some good links.

Good Luck

[guava]

nearly every Thai in this country will reply to you in "million-mile-a-minute" Thai thinking (mistakenly) that you speak Thai. It can be a real "buzz-kill".

Agree 100% with Tod. If your accent is anything like acceptable, most Thai people will assume that you are fluent and will bombard you with rapid fire Thai. I like Tod's phrase "buzz-kill" as at first thats how it feels. Practice, practice, practice is all the advice I can offer............. trust me, one day it will just "click" and you will be fine. Fine that is in Central Thai............

machine gun rapid Southern Thai? ... or Isaan Thai? That's a whole different ball game, but part of the fun, right?

[Tod-Daniels]

That "rapid fire machine gun" Thai which Thais always answered me with was what put me off from speaking Thai with Thais for quite a while. It seems many times that Thais don't have the ability to "slow their Thai down" to the level of the foreign speaker. They'll speak mile-a-minute Thai to any foreigner who can spit out the phrase "sweaty crap".

I found it extremely vexing, because if a Thai speaks English to me, I'll adjust my spoken English to match their level of understanding.

It got so bad, and I got so tired of saying ¾Ù´ªéÒ æ ˹èÍÂ, ¿Ñ§äÁè·Ñ¹ "Speak slowly, I can't keep up with what you're saying", that I finally memorized how to say, "Speak slower or I'm gonna speak English only, understand?" Given most Thais high aversion to speaking English, that phrase turned out to be worth its weight in gold as far as getting Thais to speak at a slower pace.

Over time I got better, and I'm pretty good now; rarely hafta ask for something to be repeated or for the speaker to slow down, but man early on it was a "ball-breaker" or as I said before a real "buzz-kill". . .

As I said, in most hotels, you're better off sticking with very clearly enunciated slowly spoken English and you'll be fine 90+% of the time.

Still good luck