Learn the Thai alphabet
The fun way to learn
the Thai alphabet.
Levels, typing, and interactive tone drills, with recorded audio on every letter and word. Real words in your first session, first tones the same day — about 15 minutes a day.
Start free — no credit card.
The game loop
Not flashcards. Rounds.
You don't tap multiple-choice cards — you build real words from real letters and hear every one of them. Wrong answers don't just tell you; they come back until you own them.
- 01
See a word
A round shows you a Thai word and its meaning — no transliteration crutch in the way.
- 02
Build it
Pick the letters from the variants shown, in the right order. The typing engine checks every pick as you go.
- 03
Hear it
Every pick plays recorded audio. Get the tone right and the word lights up; get it wrong and it comes back later.
Build the word · L1 — First words
Item 3 of 6The word: กา · a crow
กา
Tone drills
Which tone did you hear?
Thai has five tones, and a tone can change a word's meaning entirely: ข้าว is rice, ข่าว is news. Phayan plays you a word and asks you to pick the tone — every letter and word has recorded audio, so your ear does the learning, not your eyes.
Which tone did you hear?
Item 3 of 8ข้าว
riceThe sample above is static — the real drill plays audio and scores every answer.
Try the drill — freeSpaced repetition
Review at 1, 3, 7, and 21 days.
Spaced repetition isn't unique to Phayan — doing it right is the point. Three consecutive correct answers master an item; a single wrong answer restarts its ladder. One due queue covers letters and words, so review is one list, not a chore.
1days
the next day — before it fades
3days
three days later, if you got it right
7days
a week in — now it sticks
21days
three weeks out — long-term memory
The same schedule your round scores feed — answer ก correctly three times in a row and it graduates to the 21-day cycle; miss it once and it's back tomorrow. 1/3/7/21‑day intervals, no streaks to defend, no homework pile.
The path
From ก to reading, one level at a time.
24 levels across 42 letters in use. Five to eight weeks of about 15 minutes a day takes you from your first tone to reading real sentences. Start free — no credit card. Build real reading skills step by step.
Orientation: the five tones
First words
More vowels
Finals & syllable types
Mid class + tone marks
High class
Low class I: workhorses
Low class II: rare letters
Unwritten rules
Connected reading
Diphthongs: เ-า เ-ีย เ-ือ
The short vowels & the mid-only marks
The letters you'll actually meet
Function words I
Everyday speech
Everyday things
More everyday words
Food & family
Everyday objects & verbs
Animals, body & food
The market & the street
The function layer
Menus & signs
The everyday tail
Levels 5–31 unlock with Premium — coming soon. The five tones, first words, and more vowels are free to start — and the path keeps going free from there.
Start free — no credit card. Unlock the full path when you're ready.
No streaks to defend, no rush — Premium unlocks the rest of the path.
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- The first 5 levels: the five tones, first words, and more vowels
- Tone-hearing drill previews
- Audio for every free word
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Unlock levels 5–31
- Level 5: High class
- Level 6: Low class I: workhorses
- Level 7: Low class II: rare letters
- Level 8: Unwritten rules
- Level 9: Connected reading
- Level 10: Diphthongs: เ-า เ-ีย เ-ือ
- Level 11: The short vowels & the mid-only marks
- Level 12: The letters you'll actually meet
- Level 14: Function words I
- Level 15: Everyday speech
- Level 17: Everyday things
- Level 18: More everyday words
- Level 23: Food & family
- Level 24: Everyday objects & verbs
- Level 26: Animals, body & food
- Level 27: The market & the street
- Level 29: The function layer
- Level 30: Menus & signs
- Level 31: The everyday tail
Cancel anytime — your free progress carries over either way.
Open standards
Built on open standards
Phayan is built on well-known, openly documented building blocks — no proprietary lock-in, no opaque pipelines. Every core piece is something you can read about from its original source.
Unicode Thai script
Every letter, vowel form, and tone mark is the standard Unicode Thai block — the same codepoints your phone and browser already render.
Thai block in Unicode →License-clean audio
Letter and word audio comes from openly licensed recordings plus synthesized speech — every clip traceable to its license. No scraped voices.
Wikimedia Commons →Open word data
The vocabulary pipeline builds on open Thai lexical data and language tooling, enriched in build steps that are checked into the repository.
tltk language tools →Spaced repetition, the known way
The 1/3/7/21-day review ladder is a published memory technique — we implement it plainly instead of inventing a proprietary “smart” algorithm.
Spaced repetition on Wikipedia →GDPR compliant by design
Full data export and account deletion at any time, in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
GDPR overview →No AI training on your data
Your progress, answers, and account data are never used to train models or sold to anyone. Nothing you type becomes a dataset.
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Your first tones, the same day.
Real words in your first session, first tones the same day — about 15 minutes a day until you read Thai.
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