การ ต้อน รับ
“การ ต้อน รับ” (кан тон рап) — hospitality in Thai. Noun, level B1. The same welcoming as in the receptionist, "welcome-worker": receiving guests as a job. Hospitality the Thai does not feel — he performs it. In a live sentence: “การ ต้อน รับ ของ เขา ดี มาก” — His hospitality is very good. Written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ้, อ, น, ร, บ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | การ ต้อน รับ |
| Read in Latin letters | кан тон рап |
| Translation | hospitality |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The same welcoming as in the receptionist, "welcome-worker": receiving guests as a job. Hospitality the Thai does not feel — he performs it
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.
- การ ต้อน รับ ของ เขา ดี มากкан тон рап кхонг кхао ди макHis hospitality is very good
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 “hospitality” in Thai?
«การ ต้อน รับ», read “кан тон рап”. In a live sentence: “การ ต้อน รับ ของ เขา ดี มาก” — His hospitality is very good. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ก, า, ร, ต, ้, อ, น, ร, บ.
How is “การ ต้อน รับ” written in Latin letters?
кан тон рап. 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?
The same welcoming as in the receptionist, "welcome-worker": receiving guests as a job. Hospitality the Thai does not feel — he performs it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.