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The glossary

Every word explains itself.

Tap any Thai word, anywhere — lessons, stories, even your wrong answers — and it opens up: meaning, pronunciation, and the literal word-by-word logic underneath. ตกลง (dtòk-long) means “deal” — literally “fall into place.” Thai sticks when you can see why. One more tap sends the word to your review deck, and the app brings it back right before you’d forget it.

The audio

Hear it like a local.

Thai speaks in two voices. Sentences ending in ครับ (khráp) are how men speak; ค่ะ (khâ) is how women speak — and most apps play you one voice either way. PaiThai’s audio matches the particle, every time: his lines in a male voice, hers in a female voice, across every sentence in the course. Three speeds, from full conversational pace down to a turtle that stretches each tone wide enough to actually hear it.

Real clips from the course — 35,000+ of them.

The speech check

Say it back.

The mic is the scary part. We made it the kind part.

Speaking exercises actually listen — real speech recognition, graded for a beginner’s mouth, not a newsreader’s. You pass when a Thai listener would understand you; when they wouldn’t, it shows you which sound to fix and hands you the clip again, slower. No dead ends: retry, or skip and come back brave tomorrow. Premium adds per-sound pronunciation scores.

10 free checks a day · unlimited with Premium

The script track

Read the menu.

Most apps never teach the alphabet. It’s the best part. PaiThai’s reading track is a complete path to literacy in thirteen units — all 44 consonants, the vowels that orbit them, the full tone-rule system, and handwriting you trace stroke by stroke, the looped way Thais learn it. Street signs stop being wallpaper.