ตะโกน เรียก
“ตะโกน เรียก” (такоон риак) — to call out; to hail in Thai. Verb, level A1. Literally "shout, calling": to hail across the street, to catch up with one's voice. Louder than a plain riak. In a live sentence: “ตะโกน เรียก เพื่อน อีก ครั้ง” — Call out to your friend once more. Written with the characters ต, ะ, โ, ก, น, เ, ร, ี, ย, ก. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ตะโกน เรียก |
| Read in Latin letters | такоон риак |
| Translation | to call out; to hail |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "shout, calling": to hail across the street, to catch up with one's voice. Louder than a plain riak
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.
- ตะโกน เรียก เพื่อน อีก ครั้งтакоон риак пхиуан ик кхрангCall out to your friend once more
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 call out; to hail” in Thai?
«ตะโกน เรียก», read “такоон риак”. In a live sentence: “ตะโกน เรียก เพื่อน อีก ครั้ง” — Call out to your friend once more. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ต, ะ, โ, ก, น, เ, ร, ี, ย, ก.
How is “ตะโกน เรียก” written in Latin letters?
такоон риак. 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 "shout, calling": to hail across the street, to catch up with one's voice. Louder than a plain riak. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.