sounds of Thailand
audio recordings that evoke the country, the people and their languages and the diversity of the music of the ethnic cultures
Thai language |
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Thai announcements | |||
announcements over the public address system | 924k | ||
railway station | details of trains leaving Chiang Mai for Bangkok | 163k | |
a van gives details of forthcoming local elections | 341k | ||
election announcement 2 | broadcast over the sound system of the village temple | 1.5MB | |
school prize day |
2.3MB |
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supermarket promotion | young coconuts are the special of the day | 90k | |
automatic phone messages | what you hear when you call a mobile off, bank, hospital etc | 1.6MB | |
Bangkok's Skytrain | take a quick journey on the overhead trains | 1.4MB | |
Bangkok's metro | take a quick journey on the underground | 1.4MB | |
Thai radio | |||
news item | a baby seal has been born in Chiang Mai zoo | 2.58MB | |
promotions 1 | 'Buy Thai' campaign | 723k | |
promotions 2 | drugs campaigns | 731k | |
promotions 3 | environmental protection | 438k | |
promotions 4 | no smoking day | 379k | |
weather forecast | 1.62MB | ||
news headlines | 416k | ||
advert | an elephant camp | 317k | |
other Thai language | |||
army radio | the Burmese border is bristling with military- this is what your hear on their two way radio | 395k | |
restaurant talk | Waen on the petrol price increases | 1.35MB | |
train passengers | it's difficult not to overhear the phone conversations of other passengers |
1.6MB |
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fortune teller | an elderly lady lists my problems and hints at the future |
3.4MB |
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Northern Thai | |||
two farmers discuss their problems | 1.4 MB | ||
learning northern Thai | common words and phrases | 815k | |
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radio advert | promoting the use of 'kham meuang' | 557k | |
Thailand's natural world, birds and other wildlife Thai music sounds of everyday Thai life
music of Thailand's ethnic cultures
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all sound files in compressed mp3 form click on track title to hear the recording
sound files are extracts from longer files in wav format