Lesson 4: To Eat

Myeik kat kyi kaik or Myeik Fried Noodles
Eating is a huge part of Myanmar culture. Read this page for more culture tips.
LISTEN
The best way to learn this course would be to listen and speak along.
READ
To Eat စား
စား
This word consists of 2 parts. The first part is a consonant စ with the sound /sa/; and the second part is a vowel ာ /à/ that we already learnt.
Practice the 3 basic tones:
- The "creaky tone", without the vowel, စ means to start.
- The "low tone", စာ is related to knowledge.
- The "high tone" စား is used in this recording to mean eat.
READ (OPTIONAL)
Transcript
English | Rough Phonics | Myeik |
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Host: Have you eaten? |
Sa bi bi la? | စားပြီးပြီလား |
You: Not eaten yet. | Mer sa thay ahh | မစားသေးအ |
Host: What would you like to eat? | bah sa meh? | ဘာစားမယ် |
You: I will eat Myeik fried noodles. | kai chi kai sa me | ကိုက်ကြီးကိုက်စားမယ် |
Host: Can you eat spicy (food)? | ah sat sah la? | အစပ်စားလာ |
You: OK, I can eat spicy (food). | hoke, sah eh. | ဟုတ်ကဲ့ ၊ စားအယ် |
Host: How about sour (food)? | ah ching OOOOrrr? | အချဉ်အော |
You: I do not eat sour (food). | ah ching, mer sa ah. | အချဉ်မစားအ |
EXPLORE (OPTIONAL)
What can I eat in Myeik?
Ok, so i've been introduced to a few food. What are the other food I can eat around in Myeik?
Picture | Description | Phonics | Myeik |
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Ah Pone | အာပုံ | |
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Shwe Yin Aye | ရွှေရင်အေး | |
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Kaunt nyin kin | ကောက်ညင်းကင် | |
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Mo qui ta | မုန့်ခွက်သား | |
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Mo pi se lek | မုန့်ပဉ္စလက် | |
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မုန့်တီလှော် | ||
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ပဲစေ့ကျို | ||
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မုန့်စာဥ | ||
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မုန့်ဦးနှောက် | ||
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ငှက်ပျောသီးပျားမအုန်း | ||
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ထန်းသီး |
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