Start slow enough to be accurate, then increase speed. Train native-like patterns, not fast mistakes.

Do I need to understand every word?

No—shadowing also trains rhythm and tone contour before full comprehension.

How do I fix tones while shadowing?

If you miss a contour repeatedly, do a short tone drill and return.

Public Beta

Speaking drill · about 4 minutes

Pronunciation Loops

Three useful lines, twice each. You hear a reviewed recording, say it back into the microphone, and compare — with the syllables and tones of the line in front of you while you do it.

No signup. Your recordings stay on your device.

Today’s Plan uses this as the daily speaking anchor, so it turns up on most days without you choosing it.

A Thai phrase with a Listen control and a note explaining which polite particle the line uses and what the alternative is — One line, a reviewed recording, and which form fits you.

What a round looks like

A line you would actually say, with everything you need to say it

It tells you which form fits you

Thai changes with the speaker. A line built around ครับ or ผม is a line a man says, and the drill names the swap rather than letting you learn the wrong one by repetition — which is exactly what a shadowing app does if it stays quiet.

A Thai phrase with a Listen control and a note explaining that this line uses the polite particle men use, and which word women say instead — Say whichever fits you — the drill will not correct you into someone else.

The whole line, syllable by syllable

Under every phrase is the same breakdown you meet in Memory Builder and Blur Breaker: each syllable with its tone, switchable to whole words. When a line will not come out right, the syllable that is fighting you is usually visible.

A Thai sentence broken into seven syllable cards, each labelled with its tone, with a control to switch to whole words — Rising, falling, high, low — per syllable, not per word.

3 × 2: phrases per session, two passes each
1,176: phrases with reviewed audio across 7 sets
Record: and compare against the model
All levels: starter phrases through expansion sets

What shadowing is for

Repeating a line you understand trains rhythm and tone contour together, which drilling either one alone does not.

Thai speaking practice

Where the lines come from

Memory Builder is where the words in these phrases are learned and brought back, with the same syllable breakdown underneath.

Memory Builder