Script and tones · about 10 minutes
Consonant Trainer
Thai consonants come in three classes, and the class decides which tone a syllable gets. This is where that stops being a table you memorise and becomes something you can see.
No signup. Six drills, pick any.
Today’s Plan works through the classes gradually, using consonants from words you have already met.

What a round looks like
Six ways at the same problem
The class system, drilled from every direction
Identify a consonant’s class, match a sound to its letter, sort a set into classes, or work the two distinctions that trip English speakers hardest: aspiration (พ against ท) and unreleased final stops. Different drills because the same fact is hard in different directions.

All forty-four, not a convenient subset
Nine mid, eleven high, twenty-four low — the whole inventory, including the rare ones you will meet in a name or a loanword and nowhere else. Consonant Essentials teaches before it tests, so the classes arrive as a system rather than a list.
The class of a consonant plus the shape of a syllable is most of what decides its tone. That is why this drill sits under the tone work rather than beside it.
- 44
- consonants: 9 mid, 11 high, 24 low
- 6
- drills, including a teach-first mode
- Audio
- on every letter and example word
- Beginner
- no prior reading needed
What the classes are for
Tone Pairs trains the ear that has to hear the result the class system predicts.
Tone PairsThe letters themselves
Sound-to-Letter Match groups the forty-four by the sound they make, which is the easier way in.
Sound-to-Letter Match