Popular Post jabis Posted December 31, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2014 Was in Koh Phangan over Christmas , i was surprised to see how many farangs were working there , i did not like the place it was dirty in Haad Rin where i stayed. Had Rin is always dirty, ..... you should have tried west or north west beach areas, they are usually much nicer! As for getting back to the topic, I have asked several Thai's lately to say the word .... it nearly always comes out sounding like Koh Phan-Yang! .... so not just some of us "farangs" or is that "farlangs"? I have been trying to catch myself lately and say "Pan-gang" rather than Pan-yang !... Even before this topic came up!... it is not easy! A training exercise: Keep saying gangbanggangbang ( ) repeatedly - you'll catch the ng-sound naturally as a starting syllable while rotating the words. Next step is to try and phase the first syllable out of gang (resulting in ngbanggbangnggbang), then the dominating B out of the Bang (ngangangang), and last suppress out the remaining G to end up with ngan -> Koh Gangbangan -> Koh Phangan -> Koh Pha Ngan Hope this helps 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delgarcon Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Was in Koh Phangan over Christmas , i was surprised to see how many farangs were working there , i did not like the place it was dirty in Haad Rin where i stayed. Had Rin is always dirty, ..... you should have tried west or north west beach areas, they are usually much nicer! As for getting back to the topic, I have asked several Thai's lately to say the word .... it nearly always comes out sounding like Koh Phan-Yang! .... so not just some of us "farangs" or is that "farlangs"? I have been trying to catch myself lately and say "Pan-gang" rather than Pan-yang !... Even before this topic came up!... it is not easy! A training exercise: Keep saying gangbanggangbang ( ) repeatedly - you'll catch the ng-sound naturally as a starting syllable while rotating the words. Next step is to try and phase the first syllable out of gang (resulting in ngbanggbangnggbang), then the dominating B out of the Bang (ngangangang), and last suppress out the remaining G to end up with ngan -> Koh Gangbangan -> Koh Phangan -> Koh Pha Ngan Hope this helps Couldn't get my head round that,I think I'll move to Koh Samui! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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