เล่า ขาน กัน มา
“เล่า ขาน กัน มา” (лао кхаан кан ма) — as the story goes in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "tell-hand-down coming": so it is told from generation to generation. About legends and omens this is their frame. In a live sentence: “เล่า ขาน กัน มา ว่า ข้าง ป่า มี ป้อม เก่า” — As the story goes, an old fortress stands by the forest. Written with the characters เ, ล, ่, า, ข, า, น, ก, น, ม, า.
In short
| Written in Thai | เล่า ขาน กัน มา |
| Read in Latin letters | лао кхаан кан ма |
| Translation | as the story goes |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "tell-hand-down coming": so it is told from generation to generation. About legends and omens this is their frame
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.
- เล่า ขาน กัน มา ว่า ข้าง ป่า มี ป้อม เก่าлао кхаан кан ма ваа кхаанг паа ми пом гаоAs the story goes, an old fortress stands by the forest
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 “as the story goes” in Thai?
«เล่า ขาน กัน มา», read “лао кхаан кан ма”. In a live sentence: “เล่า ขาน กัน มา ว่า ข้าง ป่า มี ป้อม เก่า” — As the story goes, an old fortress stands by the forest. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters เ, ล, ่, า, ข, า, น, ก, น, ม, า.
How is “เล่า ขาน กัน มา” written in Latin letters?
лао кхаан кан ма. 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 "tell-hand-down coming": so it is told from generation to generation. About legends and omens this is their frame. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.