โหมด ลำโพง
“โหมด ลำโพง” (мот лампхонг) — speakerphone in Thai. Noun, level A1. Literally "speaker mode": lamphong, the loudspeaker, you know, and homot is a mode; the leading h is not read. "Turn on the speakerphone" is "open the speaker mode". In a live sentence: “ตอน ขับ รถ ผม ใช้ โหมด ลำโพง” — Behind the wheel I use the speakerphone. Written with the characters โ, ห, ม, ด, ล, ำ, โ, พ, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | โหมด ลำโพง |
| Read in Latin letters | мот лампхонг |
| Translation | speakerphone |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "speaker mode": lamphong, the loudspeaker, you know, and homot is a mode; the leading h is not read. "Turn on the speakerphone" is "open the speaker mode"
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.
- ตอน ขับ รถ ผม ใช้ โหมด ลำโพงтон кхап рот пхом чай мот лампхонгBehind the wheel I use the speakerphone
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 “speakerphone” in Thai?
«โหมด ลำโพง», read “мот лампхонг”. In a live sentence: “ตอน ขับ รถ ผม ใช้ โหมด ลำโพง” — Behind the wheel I use the speakerphone. Noun, level A1; written with the characters โ, ห, ม, ด, ล, ำ, โ, พ, ง.
How is “โหมด ลำโพง” written in Latin letters?
мот лампхонг. 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 "speaker mode": lamphong, the loudspeaker, you know, and homot is a mode; the leading h is not read. "Turn on the speakerphone" is "open the speaker mode". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.