เริ่ม ใหม่
“เริ่ม ใหม่” (рём май) — to start over; to start anew in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "begin new": from a clean slate. After a failure and after a move the Thai says the same thing. In a live sentence: “หลัง ล้ม เหลว เขา เริ่ม ใหม่ อย่าง ใจ เย็น” — After the failure he started over calmly. Written with the characters เ, ร, ิ, ่, ม, ใ, ห, ม, ่. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เริ่ม ใหม่ |
| Read in Latin letters | рём май |
| Translation | to start over; to start anew |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "begin new": from a clean slate. After a failure and after a move the Thai says the same thing
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.
- หลัง ล้ม เหลว เขา เริ่ม ใหม่ อย่าง ใจ เย็นланг лом лао кхао рём май янг чай йенAfter the failure he started over calmly
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 “to start over; to start anew” in Thai?
«เริ่ม ใหม่», read “рём май”. In a live sentence: “หลัง ล้ม เหลว เขา เริ่ม ใหม่ อย่าง ใจ เย็น” — After the failure he started over calmly. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters เ, ร, ิ, ่, ม, ใ, ห, ม, ่.
How is “เริ่ม ใหม่” written in Latin letters?
рём май. 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 "begin new": from a clean slate. After a failure and after a move the Thai says the same thing. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.