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Thai children's songs to learn Thai

Every Thai grows up singing the same nursery songs at kindergarten, so a few lines of one will make Thai kids and adults smile. They are also the gentlest way into Thai: slow, repetitive and built from the first words you need, such as animals, body parts and colours.

Each song below comes with its key lines in Thai, romanization and English, the vocabulary with audio and the official video.

  1. Chang Chang Chang (ช้าง ช้าง ช้าง) by Khunying Chin Silapabanleng, official video thumbnail A1 Chang Chang Chang ช้าง ช้าง ช้าง Khunying Chin Silapabanleng Almost every Thai learns this song in kindergarten, so singing it is an instant icebreaker with Thai kids and adults alike. Its two key lines are slow and simple, full of A1 words: elephant, big, nose, long, trunk and 'is called'. Meaning and key lines

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