Write It! Thai

It’s less than $10 and isn’t a subscription service. It teaches you how to write and has the corresponding sound play when you practice. It’s absolutely perfect for the purpose that it serves. I tried another app that I normally use for other languages and it was obvious that this one is infinitely better. Sometimes the best apps have the bare minimum for UI design. Don’t judge a book by its cover. If you want to learn how to sound out Thai sentences then this is the only app you need.

The audio combined with the ability to actually quiz yourself odd actually way more fun for me to learn especially the basics sounds and become familiar with them. The Thai letters somehow look like a picture of how they sound. It’s not too picky about thumb drawing being exactly correct but if it have the right directional movement they’ll give it to you🙃 if you’re totally off then it’ll eventually give you a hint to draw the answer and will count it against you. A little repetition goes a long way!

I love the basic functionality of writing practice, which also (especially with the audio) really helps with learning the huge alphabet. A few suggestions for improvement: — the vowels are incomplete as of July 2023. There seems to be a lot missing when one compares the content here to a standard Thai vowel chart. — as another reviewer said, I think it would be useful to have the vowels taught by the sound: sara ah, sara ee, etc. for most of them. This seems to be how they are taught in many books and videos. But I am not sure how to deal with the characters for which the character names are themselves important. And I appreciate that the app does teach some of that. It’s difficult to get it all in one app, I imagine. — I agree with the reviewer who suggested indicating the class of consonants so the tone implications can be learned at the same time — and maybe include the tone-changing marks and their names? (Somewhat advanced but would make this app even more impressive) — At a much more basic level, it would be very helpful to include in the text the Thai meanings of the consonant names so we can learn like Thai children do: ก ko kai k as in chicken, ศ so sala s as in pavilion, ษ so ruesi s as in hermit, etc. All that said, this is a quite helpful app.