My friend Nate and his family came by the restaurant one day and gave me the idea to teach color words.  Unfortunately we are not doing that today and I promise you I will do that on the next episode instead.

On the last episode I taught you how to reply to the question, "Ma-narn-reu-young?", which means, "Have you been here for a long time?"  You can reply, "Ma-narn-laeow", which means, "Yes, I have been here for a long time."  Or you can reply, "Ma-mai-narn", which means, "No, I haven't been here for a long time."  The other one I also taught you was, "Perng ma", which means, "Just got here."

On this episode, I teach you how to say, "Koon-cheu-a-rai", which means, "What is your name?"  The word koon rhymes with toon.  The word cheu uses the "eu" sound in tsu(nami).  The letter a use the a sound in car.  The word rai uses the i sound in pie.

The word "koon" means you.  The word "cheu" means name.  The word "a-rai" means what?.  When you put the meanings together, you will form a phrase, "you name what?"  Or another way of saying, "what is your name?"

You can use a different pronoun in place of "koon" to make the sentence more interesting.

"Ter" (rhymes with her), which means you, he, or she.
"Kow" (uses the o sound in house), which means he, she, it, or they.
"Row" (uses the o sound in house), which means we.

The phrases become:
"Ter-cheu-a-rai"
"Kow-cheu-a-rai"
"Row-cheu-a-rai"

Now to reply to the question, you would use a first person pronoun.  Male speaker would use "Pome" as a pronoun and female speaker would use "Chun" as a pronoun.  The word "pome" rhymes with Rome.  The word "chun" rhymes with bun.

The phrases would be as follow:
Pome-cheu....(name).
Chun-cheu.....(name).

Male speaker:
"Pom-cheu-George."
"Pom-cheu-Peter."

Female speaker:
"Chun-cheu-Linda."
"Chun-cheu-Mary."

You can use the same rule from the question phrase and use different pronouns.  The phrases become:

"Ter-cheu...(name)."
"Kow-cheu...(name or names)."
"Row-cheu...(name or names)."

If you get stuck on phrases, replay my previous episodes to hear the phrases again.  You could also send me emails with questions and comments. I would love to help you.  I hope you have been adding the words "Ka" and "Krub" to the end of your phrases!  They make the phrases sound better!