Learn Burmese from Natural Talk
Hello! Greetings from the Burmese corner! I'm Kenneth Wong, a Burmese language instructor, author, and translator. This is a podcast series for intermediate and advanced Burmese language learners who want to learn Burmese by listening to natural conversation. Every two weeks or so, my cohost Mol Mol from Burmese Language Academy of Yangon (BLAY), some guest speakers, and I record and upload an episode on a specific topic. At the end of each episode, you'll find the keywords and phrases with their meanings. You can reach BLAY from its Facebook page: BurmeseLanguageAcademyofYangon. For more on the podcast series, visit the Learn Burmese from Natural Talk blog: http://burmeselessons.blogspot.com/
Learn Burmese from Natural Talk
On Airport-Related Words and Phrases
To talk about modern-day travel means to talk about air travel primarily. In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol from BLAY (Burmese Language Academy of Yangon) and I teach you all the terms and phrases associated with airport, from custom officers and immigration officers to flight attendants and x-ray machines. We can’t help you avoid excess luggage fees or make your inflight meal taste better, but we’ll give you the words you need to talk about them. Buckle up for a short 30-min flight with us. (Music clips from Uppbeat.io)
Vocabulary
လေဆိပ် airport
ရန်ကုန်အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလေဆိပ် Yangon International Airport
... ကို အစွဲပြုပြီးခေါ်တယ် … to be named after (something)
ပြည်တွင်း domestic
ပြည်ပ abroad
အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ international
လုံခြုံရေးအရာရှိ security personnel
အိတ်စစ်တယ် to examine the luggage
ဓာတ်မှန်ရိုက်တယ် to x-ray
လေကြောင်း airline
ဒဏ်ငွေရိုက်တယ် to be charged a penalty (for excess luggage, for example)
လေယာဉ် airplane
လေယာဉ်ထွက်တယ် the airplane departs / takes off
လေယာဉ်ဆိုက်တယ် the airplane arrives / lands
စကားလုံးပွားတယ် to spawn a new word
အကောက်ခွန်အရာရှိ custom officers
လူဝင်မှုကြီးကြပ်ရေး immigration
လဝက Burmese acronym for immigration
နိုင်ငံကူးလက်မှတ် passport
အငှားကား taxi
ငွေလဲကောင်တာ money exchange counter
လေယာဉ်မယ် female flight attendant
လေယာဉ်မောင် male flight attendant
လေယာဉ်မှူး pilot
ကပ်စေးနည်းတယ် to be penny pinching, to be stingy
ခရီးစဉ် flight, itinerary
တိုက်ရိုက်သွားတယ် to fly direct
လေယာဉ်ပြောင်းတယ် to transfer plane
ခရီးသည် passenger, traveler
… နဲ့ သိပ်မရင်းနှီးဘူး not that familiar with
ယောင်ပြီး (adverb) absent-mindedly, unconsciously
ခြေဟန်လက်ဟန်နဲ့ with body language, with hand gestures
လေယာဉ်ပြေးလမ်း runway
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