Pronunciation........

[pharvey]

OK, off the beaten track a bit here, but I've heard several different pronunciations for Hua Hin with each individual insisting on it's correctness...

So, for the record - what is the correct pronunciation (not necessarily listed below): -


"Who Hin"
"Whah Hin"
"Who-ah Hin"

[nevets]

If you listen to the way the Thai say it then it is who - a

[Super Joe]

You can have a listen here: http://www.thai-language.com/id/206142

SJ

[pharvey]

You can have a listen here: http://www.thai-language.com/id/206142

SJ

Thanks for the link SJ..... shall be religiously practising my Thai ready for the next visit!

[Khundon1975]

SJ


I tried the link but could not get the sounds.
There is a speaker symbol on the right hand side with a red line through it.

How do I turn on the sounds? I'm running FF and have no trouble on other sites!

Cheers.

[chopsticks]

Same in IE but sounds do work if you click on the 2 other speaker symbols lower down the page.

[Big Boy]

Same in IE but sounds do work if you click on the 2 other speaker symbols lower down the page.

I'm using Firefox, and none of the symbols work for me either - and yes, my sound is switched on.

[Khundon1975]

I even went to the FAQ page just to check and run the test. The test said I was configured correctly (my wife would disagree on that one) but could not get anything else to work!

The Sawadee sounds came out of my speakers then, but when I went back to the original link, nothing, zilch, nada.


Edit Just tried again and now I get the sounds OK??? and if you type Hua Hin into the dictionary you get a completely different translation to the link page?

Forget the bit about holidays etc, the Hua Hin bit is very clearly not what the link pronunciation says.

[Big Boy]

I can get the Sawasdee, but nothing else - you must have done something else. Give me a clue please.

[Khundon1975]

BB

Try this, go to the FAQ page (link half way down on the left) on that site and try the WMA test first. If you can hear sounds on the test then go to the next here link and test the "external" audio sounds.

Select (check) the Embedded box and the WMA box and save the options.

That should give you another FIREFOX option in your sounds (right click on the little speaker symbol in bottom right of your screen and open volume mixer you will see a new FF addition.

That's what I did but not in a geeky type of way, more of an idiot stumbling around in a dark room, bumping into the furniture type of way.

But it worked.

EDIT to add the next Paras

If that does not work go to the bottom of the page where you did the EMBEDDED bit and check that your computer/FF Supports AJAX.
At the very bottom of the page you will see if it does. Highlited in the next para.

"AJAX and Browser Identification Thai-language.com uses Asynchronous Java with XML (AJAX) for sideband communication between your web browser and our server. As this site evolves, more of the web page rendering will run on your client browser. This will speed up your user experience, because repetitive formatting information will only need to be transmitted to you once, when you first visit the site.

AJAX is currently used in the search form, now online feature, in some quizzes in the lessons section, in the reverse transcription results, and elsewhere.

These features require AJAX support in your browser. We have detected that your browser has the following AJAX support:"

built-in AJAX support (XMLHttpRequest)

Your computer has AJAX support. AJAX features on this website should function correctly. Your web browser identifies itself as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTBDFff GTB7.0

Our analysis: { Firefox Firefox3 Firefox35 Gecko WinVista }

[Big Boy]

I give in - stupid program

[Khundon1975]

I give in - stupid program

If all of the above fails, try downloading from Windows the latest Windows Media Player

[Big Boy]

Got it

[richard]

Well i am wading through it but I am baffled

[Khundon1975]

BB

Go to this site and download the latest WMP firefox Plugin. Then try again.


http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/Wi ... lugin.html