October 29, 2026
Karan's Last Two Words
ภาพยนตร์ is the one I want you to see first, because it looks like two pieces on the page and sounds like three when you say it. The พ at the end of ภาพ does double duty, closing the first syllable and opening a short second one, so the whole word runs พาบ-พะ-ยน, with falling, high, and mid tones.
That second syllable is easy to miss. ภาพ gives you พาบ, low class with a long vowel and a stop final, which lands falling, and then that same พ starts พะ, a short syllable with no final, which lands high. In the last piece, ยนตร์, the mark over ร takes the ต before it silent as well, leaving ยน, live and mid. If a reading comes out as two syllables, I think the miss is at that seam, not at the karan itself.
คอมพิวเตอร์ gives you the opposite kind of surprise. The deletion itself is straightforward here, with the marked ร at the end of เตอร์ gone and the syllable left live on its long vowel. The tone is where the word breaks from the table, because mid-class ต in a live syllable should give mid, and this syllable is falling instead. Wiktionary actually respells it เต้อ to mark that falling tone, and I would learn it that way, carried with the word rather than worked out from the rules.
These are the last two unworked words from your Week 3 pack, so they close the karan set. You will meet the first one inside โรงภาพยนตร์ on cinema listings, though everyday speech usually just says หนัง, and the second one often shortens to คอม in casual use. For a morning try, count the spoken syllables out loud first, name which syllable carries the mark and what it silences, and only then read each word through.
When the Week 4 pack lands on Sunday, I will build on whatever it actually focuses on instead of drilling this mark again.