Expensive mothers

Language continues ... our homework the other day was to go to the local market and use what we had learnt in six conversations. So, off we went with 'how much? ... 'do you have it in red?' ... 'how much for three?' ... 'no, too expensive' and so on.

The folk in the stalls are really nice and appreciate our noble attempts at stringing an intelligible sentence together. A day later we discover that some of the somewhat puzzled looks maybe can be attributed to our exclamations of 'expensive mother' (tlai mai) instead of 'too expensive' (tlai na).

We've told Nimol that her homework was too expensive. It cost me two pillow cases, two pillows, a table runner and a deodorant (I asked if they had that one in black and the lady cracked up!)

Susie in the books - and cards that help us to keep the mai out of tlai

A man's second best friend (after Chagai Crrohom) - the pocket dictionary

Oh, which reminds me - red dog is still on our front porch.