Lesson 4: To Eat

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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.

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Transcript

English	Rough Phonics	Myeik
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