Learning Thai the Easy Way!

One of the easy things about learning the months of the year in Thai is that the endings are very logical:

• Months ending with "yon" have 30 days.
• Months ending with "kom" have 31 days.

January		ma ga-ra kom (*)
February		goom pa pun
March		mee na kom
April		may sa yon
May		preut sa pa kom
June		mi too na yon
July		ga-ra-ga dar kom (*)
August		sing ha kom
September		gun yar yon
October		dtoo lar kom
November		preu sa ji gar yon
December		tun wa kom

NOTES:

Both January and July have two ways of being pronounced:

January: ma-ga-ra-kom and mok-ga-ra-kom
July: ga-ra-ga-da-kom and ga-ruk-ga-da-kom

In every-day speech, the word duean for month is often prefixed and the last syllable is left out. For example:

January = duean ma-ga-ra