กล้อง ดู ดาว
“กล้อง ดู ดาว” (клонг дуу дао) — telescope in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "tube for looking at stars": the name is the manual. At night on rooftops and in parks the residents set them up themselves. In a live sentence: “เขา ดู ดาว ด้วย กล้อง ดู ดาว ทุก คืน” — He looks at the stars through a telescope every night. Written with the characters ก, ล, ้, อ, ง, ด, ู, ด, า, ว. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | กล้อง ดู ดาว |
| Read in Latin letters | клонг дуу дао |
| Translation | telescope |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "tube for looking at stars": the name is the manual. At night on rooftops and in parks the residents set them up themselves
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.
- เขา ดู ดาว ด้วย กล้อง ดู ดาว ทุก คืนкхао дуу дао дыай клонг дуу дао тхук кхуэнHe looks at the stars through a telescope every night
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 “telescope” in Thai?
«กล้อง ดู ดาว», read “клонг дуу дао”. In a live sentence: “เขา ดู ดาว ด้วย กล้อง ดู ดาว ทุก คืน” — He looks at the stars through a telescope every night. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ก, ล, ้, อ, ง, ด, ู, ด, า, ว.
How is “กล้อง ดู ดาว” written in Latin letters?
клонг дуу дао. 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 "tube for looking at stars": the name is the manual. At night on rooftops and in parks the residents set them up themselves. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.