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Vowel Trainer

Thai vowel length changes meaning, and English does not use it that way. Five drills on the distinction your ear was never trained to hear.

No signup. Choose a scope and a drill.

Today’s Plan schedules the short-versus-long work early, because it decides what a word means before you can hear it.

Five vowel drills and three scope choices, from a starter set to the full inventory
Pick the drill, then how much of the inventory you want.

What a round looks like

Length, position, and the spelling that follows

01

Five drills, three scopes

Short versus long, where the vowel is written, hearing the pattern, spelling it back, and minimal pairs that differ by length alone. Start with twelve basic vowels in six pairs, widen to the common set with diphthongs, or take the full inventory including the rare ones.

Five vowel drills and three scope choices: starter with twelve basic vowels, core with all common vowels and diphthongs, and full including rare vowels
Pick the drill, then how much of the inventory you want.
02

Thai writes vowels around the consonant, not after it

A vowel can sit before, above, below or after the consonant it follows in speech — and sometimes wraps around it. The Vowel Position drill trains that specifically, because reading order and speaking order are not the same thing in Thai.

This is the drill that makes เ and ไ stop looking like they come first. They are written first and said second.

5
drills, from hearing length to spelling it
3
scopes: starter, core, or the full inventory
6
short/long pairs in the starter set
Audio
on every vowel and syllable

The other half of a syllable

Consonant Trainer covers the letters the vowels are written around, and the classes that set tone.

Consonant Trainer

Vowels explained

Why Thai has short and long versions of nearly every vowel, and what changes when you get it wrong.

Thai vowels explained