Changelog

Public Beta

Recent updates and improvements to Fluent Thai. We ship as work lands — cadence varies by month.

Late August 2026

Syllables now underpin the whole site — every Thai word breaks into its syllables, each carrying its own tone, and the sounds Thai leaves out of the spelling — implied vowels you say but never see — filled in faded, so what is written and what is said line up. It is in Memory Builder, Pronunciation Loops, Blur Breaker, Sound + Picture Sandbox, Tone Explorer and Sentence Explorer.
Tones are shown only where we have verified them — where we are not sure, we say nothing rather than guess
Memory Builder now teaches, not just tests — a reading ladder that builds a word up one idea at a time, short lesson cards before a new word, and a syllable view on every sentence
One designed first week for every new learner — your first sessions follow a single authored sequence instead of being assembled block by block
Progress reflects evidence, not attendance — skill ratings and Your Thai Map now show what you actually practised and scored, and the plan page explains itself in plain terms instead of internal block names
Tone practice eases off instead of spiralling — a run of wrong answers no longer buries you in more of the same drill
The full 57-lesson curriculum is complete, and the lessons are linked from the drills where they are relevant
Sound + Picture Sandbox reworked for phones — cards first, a quiz that covers the whole vocabulary, and a results screen that fits
More corrections to word meanings, consonant names, tones, and audio across the corpus

Early August 2026

Sentences carry forward between sessions — a sentence you are building now comes back in later sessions until you can say it, and Memory Builder tells you when you can
Tone Pairs reworked — the tone chart is taught inline, the contour animates in time with the audio, and it teaches at the moment you get one wrong rather than at the end
Tone Ladder now teaches the rules, not just the ear — live and dead syllables, and what a consonant class actually does, with its rule cards syncing across your devices
Blur Breaker names the word you split wrongly rather than quoting a rule, and reports every boundary you missed instead of only the first
Vowel Trainer drills where the vowel sits, not only how it sounds; Consonant Trainer targets the letters you keep missing
Tone Pairs and Listen & Read now pull from your recent mistakes
Faster dashboard — about a megabyte of unused code removed from Today’s Plan

July 2026

Sentence Explorer released — paste any Thai sentence and see it split into words with reviewed meanings. Where we are not sure, it says so rather than guessing.
Word-level audio and tone help in Sentence Explorer — tap a word to hear it and see its tone
The two-minute taster now hands you straight into a daily plan
Input Ladder fixes — the answer’s position no longer gives it away, and fill-in-the-blank mistakes are answerable when they come back for review
Mobile fixes across the site — less sideways overflow, and more consistent Thai text handling
Sync, dashboard refresh, and pair-code privacy hardening

June 2026

Save and restore your progress — after your second session we offer to save your progress to an email, the welcome screen carries a “Used Fluent Thai before?” restore link, and signing in confirms which account you landed on. Phone browsers can clear site data after about a week away, which used to strand people on the welcome screen with no way back.
A quiet month otherwise — one focused piece of work

Late May 2026

A quieter fortnight on the surface — most of the work went into how we check content before it reaches you
Every sentence in the practice decks now goes through a review queue that checks its meaning, its tone breakdown, and whether its audio actually exists — the groundwork for the sentence-based practice that arrived over the summer
Groundwork for Sentence Explorer, which launched in July

Early May 2026

“You can say this now” payoff in Memory Builder — when a word graduates, you see exactly which sentences you can now read or say, with the pieces you already know highlighted
New beginner-friendly start to Memory Builder — first-time learners now ramp in with a curated starter pack and clearer instructions before the full deck opens up
Tone Pairs Listen redesigned — Part A plays words sharing the same tone shape, Part B contrasts them, with a built-in tone-shapes chart you can reveal whenever you want
New modes for Vowel Length and Consonant Class — meet the sounds and letters first, then practice them
More accurate tone analysis across the site — many corrections to compound words, loanwords, and silent letters
More user-submitted bugs fixed — thank you for the bug reports! Keep sending anything that looks wrong, even if you’re not sure.

Late April 2026

Account & Sync (beta) soft-launched — optionally sign in with email to sync progress, plan, and review errors across devices. No signup required to keep using Fluent Thai anonymously.
Coach notes are smarter — they no longer count errors from apps that aren’t practice-ready yet, so you won’t see misleading "errors building up" messages for places you can’t actually drill
Review Mistakes now shows the Thai sentence for graded-reader comprehension reviews (previously the prompt was English-only)
Fourteen user-submitted bugs fixed — thank you for the bug reports! Keep sending anything that looks wrong, even if you’re not sure.

Early April 2026

Nine user-submitted bugs fixed — thank you for the bug reports! Keep sending anything that looks wrong, even if you’re not sure.
Hear Every Word and Watch & Learn released (V1) — new ways to train your ear on real Thai from videos and podcasts
Faster start for new learners — placement flow is quicker and smoother
Dashboard and image loading improvements across the site

March 2026

Launched Fluent Thai — structured 10-minute Thai practice that targets weak points, brings mistakes back for review, and builds real Thai over time
Guided daily plans across listening, speaking, reading, and vocabulary — pick your focus and get a plan in seconds
Your Thai Map tracks what you know and what you can do as your Thai grows over time
Audio manifest auto-heals when corrupted — no more broken audio from stale cache
Troubleshooting page (Settings > Troubleshooting) for selective resets without losing progress
Free — no signup required, works on any device

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