ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน
“ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน” (тхам нган ти бан) — I work from home in Thai. Phrase, level A2. Literally "work at the house": Thai created no everyday word for "remotely" — it says "from home". The base course already met this phrase in an example. In a live sentence: “ผม ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน ทุก วัน” — I work from home every day. Written with the characters ท, ำ, ง, า, น, ท, ี, ่, บ, ้, า, น.
In short
| Written in Thai | ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน |
| Read in Latin letters | тхам нган ти бан |
| Translation | I work from home |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "work at the house": Thai created no everyday word for "remotely" — it says "from home". The base course already met this phrase in an example
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.
- ผม ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน ทุก วันпхом тхам нган ти бан тхук ванI work from home every day
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 “I work from home” in Thai?
«ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน», read “тхам нган ти бан”. In a live sentence: “ผม ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน ทุก วัน” — I work from home every day. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ท, ำ, ง, า, น, ท, ี, ่, บ, ้, า, น.
How is “ทำ งาน ที่ บ้าน” written in Latin letters?
тхам нган ти бан. 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 "work at the house": Thai created no everyday word for "remotely" — it says "from home". The base course already met this phrase in an example. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.