อ่าน ออก เสียง
“อ่าน ออก เสียง” (ан оок сианг) — to read aloud in Thai. Phrase, level A1. Literally "read with the sound going out": aan, "read", you know, ok is "go out", and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". To oneself — simply aan. In a live sentence: “อ่าน ออก เสียง ข้อความ นี้” — Read this message aloud. Written with the characters อ, ่, า, น, อ, อ, ก, เ, ส, ี, ย, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | อ่าน ออก เสียง |
| Read in Latin letters | ан оок сианг |
| Translation | to read aloud |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "read with the sound going out": aan, "read", you know, ok is "go out", and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". To oneself — simply aan
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- อ่าน ออก เสียง ข้อความ นี้ан оок сианг кхоекхуам нийRead this message aloud
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to read aloud” in Thai?
«อ่าน ออก เสียง», read “ан оок сианг”. In a live sentence: “อ่าน ออก เสียง ข้อความ นี้” — Read this message aloud. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters อ, ่, า, น, อ, อ, ก, เ, ส, ี, ย, ง.
How is “อ่าน ออก เสียง” written in Latin letters?
ан оок сианг. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "read with the sound going out": aan, "read", you know, ok is "go out", and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". To oneself — simply aan. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.