Tone Ladder

Thai tone is not something you have to guess at. The class of the first consonant, whether the syllable is live or dead, and the tone mark together decide it — and that is learnable.

No signup. One rung at a time.

Today’s Plan works the rungs in order, because each assumes the one before it.

An introduction explaining what decides a Thai syllable’s tone — You can work the tone out.

What a round looks like

A rule you can run, not a table you memorise

The three inputs, one rung at a time

Consonant class first, then live versus dead syllables, then what a tone mark does on top. Each rung is one idea and assumes nothing about the ones after it, so a wrong answer tells you which input you are missing rather than that tones are hard.

An introduction explaining that consonant class, live or dead syllables, and the tone mark together decide a Thai syllable’s tone — The claim the drill has to earn: you can work it out.

It teaches the rule before testing it

Rungs open with the idea and a worked example, then ask. Its rule cards sync across your devices, so the ladder you climbed on a phone is the one you continue on a laptop.

Tone Explorer is the reference version of the same logic: paste any word and watch the chain run. The ladder is where you learn to run it yourself.

3: inputs: class, syllable type, tone mark
Teach: first — every rung explains before it asks
Synced: rule cards follow you across devices
~4 min: a session

Check any word

Tone Explorer runs the same chain on anything you paste, and shows its working.

Tone Explorer

The first input

Consonant class decides most tones, and has a drill of its own.

Consonant Trainer