Sabai Pronunciation Practice
Play your first phrase
Speak Thai aloud and get instant feedback on your pronunciation.
Every line, in the order the app teaches it
20 across 4 lessonsGreetings - Say It Aloud
5 linesGreetings - Continued
5 linesPoliteness and Names
5 linesEveryday Phrases
6 linesWork down the page and you are following the same path as the course, lesson by lesson. Press play on any line to hear it.
Worth knowing
Tone marks are not the whole story
Thai has four tone marks but five tones, and the mark alone doesn't decide the tone - the consonant class and the vowel length decide it with them. This is the hardest mechanical part of Thai reading, and it does eventually click into a small set of patterns rather than a table you memorise.
Vowel length changes the word
เขา (long) and ขาว (long) are not the same as their short cousins. Holding a vowel a beat longer is as meaningful as changing a letter - English speakers routinely under-hold long vowels and wonder why they aren't understood.
Final consonants get swallowed
A final k, t or p in Thai is stopped, not released - the mouth closes and the sound simply ends. Saying it the English way, with a small puff, is one of the loudest markers of a foreign accent.
What a phrasebook will not tell you about pronunciation practice
The part that is not vocabulary: who speaks first, what is rude, and what a smile changes.
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Chapters run in the order you will need them, not in grammatical order. See all 34.
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