โรง งาน
“โรง งาน” (ронг нган) — factory; plant in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "house of work": the house is the same as in school and hospital. Factory and mill share one word — only what is made inside tells them apart. In a live sentence: “แม่ ทำ งาน ใน โรง งาน” — Mom works at a factory. Written with the characters โ, ร, ง, ง, า, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | โรง งาน |
| Read in Latin letters | ронг нган |
| Translation | factory; plant |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "house of work": the house is the same as in school and hospital. Factory and mill share one word — only what is made inside tells them apart
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.
- แม่ ทำ งาน ใน โรง งานмэ тхам нган наи ронг нганMom works at a factory
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 “factory; plant” in Thai?
«โรง งาน», read “ронг нган”. In a live sentence: “แม่ ทำ งาน ใน โรง งาน” — Mom works at a factory. Noun, level A2; written with the characters โ, ร, ง, ง, า, น.
How is “โรง งาน” written in Latin letters?
ронг нган. 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 "house of work": the house is the same as in school and hospital. Factory and mill share one word — only what is made inside tells them apart. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.