Learn Thai
Thai asks for two things at once — a new script and five tones — and most courses make you carry both from the first minute. iLexiBox separates them: the on-ramp begins with the consonants and the vowels, with the tone spoken on every card by a recorded voice, so a tone is met as part of a real word rather than as a table to be memorised before any word is allowed.
Start at the alphabet
The Thai on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 210 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Thai voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.
- 44letters
- 10digits
- 16pronunciation rules
- 100core words
- 20everyday phrases
- 20sentences
Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:
- ไ- — this vowel is WRITTEN BEFORE the consonant but SAID after itไป — to go
- เ- — a long “ay” as in “play” — also written before its consonantเพลง — song
- แ- — a wide flat “a” as in “cat” — also written before its consonantแม่ — mother
Then material that does not run out
Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Thai at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.
Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.
2,373 photographs, 2,337 of them captioned in Thai
The album is a photograph for every word, shelved by category, each caption written in Thai and spoken in a real recorded voice rather than synthesised on the fly. It doubles as a game: see the picture, spell the word. Free to replay.
What Thai actually costs a beginner
The script's own trick is the vowels written before the consonant they are said after — ไ, เ and แ all sit to the left of a letter that comes first in the mouth. On top of that, Thai puts no spaces between words, so reading is partly the skill of finding where one word ends and the next begins. And the tone of a syllable is not a symbol you look up: it falls out of the consonant's class, the length of the vowel and any tone mark, together. All of that is on the audio, because a tone is copied and not read.
54 languages in the app, CEFR A1–C2.