my wife and l have 1 year old baby. they live with me in wa australia for six months now. when at home she is always yelling loud but not angry but loud when they talking . same they do in her village in sisaket.

in village they all are loud but here at home l notice it more. my neighbours must think we are fighting. l not worried about neighbours or anyone else what they think. the small town we live in the people are getting to know her now.l know they like the cooking smell comes out of home. does anyone think issan are loud talkers.

cheers

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by davetrout

where did you meet her then?

Perhaps an English language school?

where did you meet her then?

met her on internet have stayed her village many times over last 6 years

I never noticed Issan woman shouting or Khamin which she most probably is, the only place I have heard rude, badly mannered types talking loud was in bars who give decent Issan woman a bad image.

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by jacky54

Loud when they talk on the phone I notice.

I had an Isaan G/F for a few months... and I knew her sister ... when they got on the phone they reverted to Isaan dialect - about half and half and got very loud ... it was all in fun and love for each other... I liked it ... as it seem to show strong family connections... She did the same with some of her sister like girlfriends. Cute actually.

To my experience, they are talkative but not loud.

In my Thai family circle even if they have an argument they don't raise their voices and try to solve it quietly.

We are the loud ones, trying to put our point across.

That, may be, is because of frustration as sometimes we can't be understood or being stubborn we expect everybody else to follow our way of thinking and understanding things.

I guess saying "use your indoor voice" like you do with kids does not work when you grew up on an Issan farm ,

hopefully she laughs loud too so it balances out

My lot, mostly the ladies, are extremely loud and very theatrical when they all get together. That strange feature of Isaan talk emerges, where one random word in most sentences is elevated in tone and volume .

Must be because when they all get together - big group of extended family and neighbours they have to compete to get attention (which many of them want!). The practice seems to continue into animated one-on-one conversations too. Alcohol raises the volume exponentially but that's a multi-racially ubiquitous effect.

My brother has a Isaan partner and i agree with the OP, she is loud, it seems she thinks I am across the road when talking to her. I am in QLD.

My Esaan missus has become louder over the 9 years I have known her, especially with her family producing more and more sprogs. Its more necessary to shout to be heard over the mayhem, and to maintain order. She has also kind of replaced her mother who has dementia as the 'Matriarch' of the family and tries to dominate with volume. Luckily she doesnt use that approach with me............. rather more subtle manipulation! I come and go back to the UK and friends have told me that I am louder than I used to be...........also becoming a bit mutt and Geoff which doesnt help. Mind you there's a lot I dont want to hear in Thailand!

Anyone noticed that newer concrete Thai homes are much noisier than our homes in the West simply because of the lack of soft furnishings. Everything echoes off of the tiles and concrete. The softer accoustics are one advantage of traditional wooden Thai houses.

I think they're loud. Got one SIL I need ear protection for.

YES.

Very loud when talking to family or people from their Issan village.

Very soft spoken when speaking English.

My wife is also from a small Issan village.

She and my six year old daughter are constantly yelling at each other in passa Thai.

If you did not know better you would think they hate each other.

I make sure my daughter understands that farangs only yell when they are mad or the is some sort of danger.

The yelling does get on my nerves at times, but I know it is harmless and just ask them to turn down the volume.

They do not even realize they are being loud until I point it out.

As for the neighbors.......who cares!

Surely none could be louder than an Australian 'woman' could they?

I think they all are and my Missus and her lot its because they all talk at once . Doesn't annoy me at all in fact it makes me have a little chuckle to myself when they are all shouting and gesticulating and all they are talking about is the weather

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Surely none could be louder than an Australian 'woman' could they?

What that Nasal drone ?

Just make her angry and you won't hear anything for days :-)

Married to a Issan wife for 40 years. Noticed a long time ago, when in a group of other ladies, the loudest one wins.

Loud when they talk on the phone I notice.

Yes! and now we have the curse of the iphone,which means they open the iphone microphone and can have a conversation,as good as bad as if they are both in the room!

I used to think it couldn't get as bad as two people having a conversation in the village,from two ends of the Soi! now I know different!

My brother has a Isaan partner and i agree with the OP, she is loud, it seems she thinks I am across the road when talking to her. I am in QLD.

Cripes. She must be loud if you can hear her from there!

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by Songhua

OP So your saying she a screamer

A bit like my Neighbours wife at night, About 11pm, you would think she was after winning the lotto, I do laugh to myself when i meet her in the morning.

Yes - that's my experience. Put several together and the volume increases as they all try to out shout each other. My wife and daughter are always shouting from a few feet away when they talk. My son and his grandma shout at one another all the time. They all yell down the phone for some reason. Yet when speaking English, the volume goes down and talk nicely.

Couple of things I noticed. Thai is a member of the same language group as some of the southern Indian ones. When I lived in Tamil Nadu they all shouted at one another, but spoke lovely English. Secondly, they are out in the fields and open a lot more so get used to talking over distance which increases the natural tones.

Hey up me duck, ya wanna go down the Saff estate or Braunstone if ya wonna hear people shouting! Blue armeee!

Edited September 14, 201411 yr by jacky54

YES.

Very loud when talking to family or people from their Issan village.

Very soft spoken when speaking English.

My wife is also from a small Issan village.

She and my six year old daughter are constantly yelling at each other in passa Thai.

If you did not know better you would think they hate each other.

I make sure my daughter understands that farangs only yell when they are mad or the is some sort of danger.

The yelling does get on my nerves at times, but I know it is harmless and just ask them to turn down the volume.

They do not even realize they are being loud until I point it out.

As for the neighbors.......who cares!

thankyou l hope my boy does not start yelling what a crack up you gotta laugh at isann way of life

when l play that gambling game they play in isann that can get pretty vocal

Classic one this Morning, I was getting myself ready in the bedroom with BBC world on the Box. The missus , somwhere upstairs was having a "Conversation" with her sister downstairs , I couldnt hear the TV

I always know when they start to talk about somebody else,who is not there,because they always lower the tone to almost a wisper,and that happens even when there is no chans for the person they talk about to hear them.Rather funny!

Usually a Thai doesn't talk loud. If some one does the person is impolite and people around think there is gonna be a fight soon.

MIL is loud...loves to be heard, even talks to herself while watching TV. Though the loudness could be because of deafness brought on by a loud TV and overly loud music.