The Little Prince, Chapter 1 [Vocabulary]

Thank goodness for Google translate, I used it to quickly check up the 汉语拼音 Hànyǔ Pīnyīn, otherwise the entire process would be very slow. If I weren't already familiar with the story, proper nouns would be more of a problem because, unlike in English where proper nouns are capitalized, there is nothing in Chinese which indicates it is a name.

My three favorite phrases:

1. 不加 咀嚼 地 囫囵吞下

bùjiā jǔjiáo dì húlún tūn xià

without chewing swallowed whole

不加 without

咀嚼 chewing

囫囵 whole

吞下 swallow

2. 泄了气

xiè le qì

deflated

泄 leaking

气 air

3. 腻味

nìwèi

fed up with

腻 greasy

味 taste

So some basic things I have learned about Thai: 1) it is phonetic, 2) it reads from left to right, and, most surprisingly, 3) there are no punctuation marks!

小王子 http://www.xiaowangzi.org/index.html

Le Petit Prince http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300771h.html