水中月 Moon in Water (Dai dance)

[hanoibunny]

My oldest sister is half Tai Lue half Tai Yuan from Nan, North Thailand. She looks very Tai or East Asian to me. She is studying in Isaan now but unlike people there her pale skin never gets dark. I am Tai Yuan from Jiang Hai though.

[xiengmai111997]

So beautiful and fantastic

[loojceeb75]

sound just like Vietnamese.

[siameeyang]

No you can tell it is Laos- because they reffer to boys as, "ai-" just as korean girls reffers to boys as "Oppa". It's just like saying "Brother-". In Hmong, it's traditionally "ai-" too, sometimes girls don't use the saying at all.

[pankham]

I'm Tai/Kalom. I was able to understand the music but I cannot understand what she was saying. Is she speaking in Tai?

[azngirlchibi]

LOL, it sounded a bit like Cantonese for a sec, and I thought she was raving about chicken eggs ^_^;;

[ballerinaj]

The dancer's name is Hong Hong. I met her at the Yunnan Dance Institute twelve years ago.

[hsiao23]

I can't understand what she said, too much echoing or just her accent. btw Tai Lue is not obsolite in Laos. There are a couple thousand speakers in Laos not as much as Thailand's 6 million speakers in Northern Thailand.

[kayness1]

I can make out what she says after reading the translation. the thing is that I didn't understand it at first is that because she speaks it in a very bizarre accent(I'm Thai)

[machtigeaaron]

ahahahahahahahah whats this playboy?

[bingotheraccoon]

The song is very pretty. So is she. *Wolf whistle*

[oukham]

Kphas is the real translator for this . Thanks a lot.

[resiri]

Thanks for the Translation. Now I know for a fact that Dai language is really close to Laotian and Thai. We say Dao and Deuan for star and moon too. :)

[champthong]

Yes, the language of Lao, Thai, Shan Burmese originated from Tai or Dai Sipsongbanna. That's why Lao, Thai always say they are "pee-nong gun". The language is very very close to Northern Lao (i.e Bokeo,Luang Namtha,Oudomxai provinces, etc [above Viengchang]) Northern Thai (i.e Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, etc) and similar to Central Thai as well.

[ittyxbittyxkitty]

I'm Tai/Shan-Burmese. W/ a diverse background (parents born in Cambodia, grandma from Thailand, grandpa from Burma, hearing Cambodian, Thai, French along with Tai or Shan) and being the first generation born in the U.S., I experienced an identity crisis at an early age. I tell people that I'm Thai or Cambodian or both for the sake of ease.. I don't know any other Shan people outside my circle of family. It's nice to be finally acknowledged. Thank you!

[oukham]

Is any body speak dai? If I'm not mistaken, she is dancing with a dai traditional chair called "tang-ee"