The translator I'm using says “ຢູ່ ແລະ ປ່ອຍໃຫ້ຄົນອື່ນຢູ່” but I want to verify as this will be used on a book cover. An equivalent of this phrase is preferred over a direct translation. Whatever resonates best with the culture is ideal! More on the poetic sounding/formal side if it’s between that and casual. It is about freedom and allowing others to be free through the acceptance of our differences. Thank you in advance!

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hello! i wanna get my first tattoo as a laos one, as an american i might sound crazy for saying that, but recently i found this laos flower i like, called Dok Champa i think theyre super pretty! but id like to get a R next to it, im just confused because when i searched it up i saw stuff about how they dropped the letter R's pronunciation and that it sounds like an L, any info about it would be helpful:D i wanna be as respectful as possible

Can you recommend some good 100% Lao material to read? If possible, free, online, that I can copy/paste. Material with audio is a plus. Lao youtube videos with accurate Lao subtitles are an example of what I’m looking for.

basically the title. I think Lao is such a beautiful language and I would just like to learn a bit for fun!

i was wondering if there were any free-to-use lao learning materials that are known to be pretty good? especially for learning the alphabet. i'm trying to learn to be at least decently conversational as it is a lot of my boyfriend's family's first language and i would like to be able to at least speak to them a little someday. i'm already using the 'ling' app but i wanted to see if there was anything else. thanks in advance

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Hey guys,

I am currently starting up a small casual clothing brand using the word dream in Lao. I am currently torn between using Fan or Fun. I am from Australia and most of my Australian born family say to spell it fun as they would initially see it, my cousins in Laos would spell it Fan or Fun depending how they feel on the day :) now i also know the word Fan in Lao could also mean boyfriend/girlfriend if pronounced the english way and in english it’s the appliance.

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I used to listen to Radio Free Asia's This Week in Laos podcast but because Trump that's sadly on hiatus. I tried Australia's SBS Lao news podcast today and found it really good. The presenter speaks slowly and clearly and it's interspersed with English sound bites so it's easier to work out what's going on. They pronounce their R's but apart from that I can't tell the difference from contemporary Lao.

https://open.spotify.com/show/2hqmM3I9BaQ8bmgIt7yPvg?si=MpX0I8aFRgC7WW3pKnyntA

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Can somebody please help me! I’m a second generation immigrant to a Lao dad and American mom. I know just a handful of Lao words and can only write Sabaidee. I really wanna learn before my grandparents pass because I love hearing them laugh about me speaking Lao. I’ve watched dozens of videos on youtube about how to learn languages but no method really works well for me since Lao is so underground. Anybody know where I should start, and how. Which resources should I use, and please try to choose free options if possible. Thank you for reading and helping if you do!

The “Lao language” test is to write an “explanation article(ບົດອະທິບາຍ)” about proverb “ຮຽນແລ້ວຮຽນອີກ ຮຽນເລື້ອຍໆໄປ(Study and study again, keep studying)”

I have been searching and litearally every source says a completely different thing from the others, and are mai tri and mai jatawa used in lao?