การ์ตูน
“การ์ตูน” (каатун) — cartoon; animation in Thai. Noun, level A2. From English cartoon, written in the Thai alphabet. Cartoon and comic share one word, and it is loved here at any age. In a live sentence: “เด็ก ชอบ ดู การ์ตูน” — Children love watching cartoons. Written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ู, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | การ์ตูน |
| Read in Latin letters | каатун |
| Translation | cartoon; animation |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From English cartoon, written in the Thai alphabet. Cartoon and comic share one word, and it is loved here at any age
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.
- เด็ก ชอบ ดู การ์ตูนдек чоп дуу каатунChildren love watching cartoons
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 “cartoon; animation” in Thai?
«การ์ตูน», read “каатун”. In a live sentence: “เด็ก ชอบ ดู การ์ตูน” — Children love watching cartoons. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ู, น.
How is “การ์ตูน” written in Latin letters?
каатун. 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?
From English cartoon, written in the Thai alphabet. Cartoon and comic share one word, and it is loved here at any age. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.