โปรด
“โปรด” (проот) — favorite in Thai. Adjective, level A2. It came from the English and lives after the word: a favorite song. On the menu "of choice" is said with the same word. In a live sentence: “เพลง โปรด ของ ผม เปลี่ยน ทุก ปี” — My favorite song changes every year. Written with the characters โ, ป, ร, ด. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | โปรด |
| Read in Latin letters | проот |
| Translation | favorite |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
It came from the English and lives after the word: a favorite song. On the menu "of choice" is said with the same word
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.
- เพลง โปรด ของ ผม เปลี่ยน ทุก ปีпхлэнг проот кхонг пхом плиан тхук пийMy favorite song changes every year
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 “favorite” in Thai?
«โปรด», read “проот”. In a live sentence: “เพลง โปรด ของ ผม เปลี่ยน ทุก ปี” — My favorite song changes every year. Adjective, level A2; written with the characters โ, ป, ร, ด.
How is “โปรด” written in Latin letters?
проот. 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?
It came from the English and lives after the word: a favorite song. On the menu "of choice" is said with the same word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.