การ ตก ปลา
“การ ตก ปลา” (кан ток пла) — fishing in Thai. Noun, level A1. Tok plaa, "catch fish", you have met; kan turns the deed into a thing, as in "upbringing". Fishing is the same in substance. In a live sentence: “พ่อ ชอบ การ ตก ปลา” — Dad loves fishing. Written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ก, ป, ล, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | การ ตก ปลา |
| Read in Latin letters | кан ток пла |
| Translation | fishing |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Tok plaa, "catch fish", you have met; kan turns the deed into a thing, as in "upbringing". Fishing is the same in substance
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.
- พ่อ ชอบ การ ตก ปลาпхё чоп кан ток плаDad loves fishing
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 “fishing” in Thai?
«การ ตก ปลา», read “кан ток пла”. In a live sentence: “พ่อ ชอบ การ ตก ปลา” — Dad loves fishing. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ก, ป, ล, า.
How is “การ ตก ปลา” written in Latin letters?
кан ток пла. 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?
Tok plaa, "catch fish", you have met; kan turns the deed into a thing, as in "upbringing". Fishing is the same in substance. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.