Tone Ear Trainer

Before you can tell two tones apart you have to know what one sounds like on its own. This plays a single tone, eight clear times, with nothing to answer.

No signup. No quiz, no score.

Today’s Plan reaches for this when tone answers start slipping — recalibration before more testing.

A list of Thai tones to hear, each with a one-line description of its shape — Pick a tone. Listen. Nothing to answer.

What a round looks like

Calibration, not assessment

Eight examples of one tone, and nothing to get wrong

Every other tone surface asks you something. This one does not. You pick a tone, you hear it eight times in different words, and your ear settles. Being tested while you are still forming the category is what makes tones feel impossible.

A list of tones to hear — mid, low, falling, high, rising — each with a one-line description of its shape, plus two contrast pairs — Pick one. Listen. There is nothing to answer.

And the two pairs that actually confuse people

High against rising, and mid against low. Those are the confusions that survive months of practice, so they get their own side-by-side listening rather than waiting to show up as errors.

No score is kept here on purpose. A calibration exercise with a percentage attached becomes a test, and a test is the thing you were avoiding.

5: tones, eight examples each
2: contrast pairs: high/rising, mid/low
No score: nothing is graded here
~3 min: a full pass

When your ear is settled

Tone Pairs asks whether two words share a tone — the judgement conversation needs.

Tone Pairs

Why the tone is what it is

Tone Ladder teaches the rules that predict a tone from its spelling.

Tone Ladder