ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน
“ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน” (пракат рап самак нгаан) — job ad; job posting in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "announcement taking applications for the work": long, but that is exactly what is written on the sheet by the entrance. Short they say "work ad". In a live sentence: “อ่าน ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน” — I am reading the job ad. Written with the characters ป, ร, ะ, ก, า, ศ, ร, บ, ส, ม, ค, ร… A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน |
| Read in Latin letters | пракат рап самак нгаан |
| Translation | job ad; job posting |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "announcement taking applications for the work": long, but that is exactly what is written on the sheet by the entrance. Short they say "work ad"
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.
- อ่าน ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งานан пракат рап самак нгаанI am reading the job ad
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 “job ad; job posting” in Thai?
«ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน», read “пракат рап самак нгаан”. In a live sentence: “อ่าน ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน” — I am reading the job ad. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ป, ร, ะ, ก, า, ศ, ร, บ, ส, ม, ค, ร…
How is “ประกาศ รับ สมัคร งาน” written in Latin letters?
пракат рап самак нгаан. 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 "announcement taking applications for the work": long, but that is exactly what is written on the sheet by the entrance. Short they say "work ad". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.