Thai for Beginners

I love this app. Even with out the companion book it is great! But now with ios17 the app will not open. Please fix this problem so I can use it again. Also, one suggestion is to allow the app to work in the background and not be effected by home screen lock. Many language apps I use allow the lessons to be played while either forcing the screen to not lock while open or to continue to play if screen locked. Thank you!

I can’t get the app to open with it crashing. I tried deleting and redownloading but that didn’t work either. Please update the app to fix this 😭

Buggy and does not follow book

I wish that the conversations were included in the oral section. I feel it is most helpful to hear the words in context. I was surprised that only the vocabulary list is vocalized.

This app is wonderful. Designed to create a broad, strong foundation in Thai language. Female and male speakers help to sharpen listening skills. The tests provide an effective way to measure progress and identify weak spots. One of the best learning tools I have on my devices. This company clearly cares about quality.

If you’re learning Thai from Benjawan Poonsan Becker’s Thai for Beginners, this is a helpful aid for practicing vocabulary, studying sentence structure, and improving pronunciation. It used the same English transliteration as the book. I am using the book and CD for a class I’m enrolled in but got this app to focus in on the pronunciation of specific words (which is harder to do when rewinding the audio from the CD). If you are serious about learning Thai this is a valuable beginner resource.

This app is a great companion to the book! I love it. However the conversation audio from the book is missing. Everything else is there and it's super helpful. This would be a five star review of the conversation audio was there. The UX of the app is also not great but that's not really the point. Would happily give five stars even with the UX if the conversation was in here.

I have been studying the book Thai for Beginners for awhile now, then discovered this app. I like the quizzes and customization options. However, I can read Thai really well. I need more work on listening. I would love for there to be a Listen-only option for the quizzes, so I can drill myself more. Thanks for making and updating this app! :)

This is by no means a replacement for the excellent Thai for Beginners book by the same author but as an additional app it reinforces the lessons. In fact there are additional sections of hundreds of very useful phrases and sentences not found in the book. Paiboon continues to update and enhance the app as it does all of its apps. Not just bug fixes but new functionality with every release. The ability to read the vocabulary then test yourself on both reading and listening is a terrific reinforcement. Having said that, I would like to see the addition of the conversations from each chapter as well as a focus on tone rules within consonant classes in the writing system chapter. One other (and very strong) request for enhancement would be the ability to choose different fonts, especially for the Thai writing system. I have learned classical font fairly well but now that I am in Thailand I can't read a bloody thing because all the signs are in modern font which is so different it could be a different language. Paiboon has given that ability in their five star plus dictionary program. That is not a criticism, it is my wish list to help other students learn right from the start. To anyone that is seriously interested in learning Thai I cannot recommend their dictionary too much! For an app it is expensive but worth every baht! There is nothing else on the market that even comes close.

Great companion to book. Helps with pronunciation immensely. Where is the audio to accompany the complex vowels in Chapter 3? It would be a welcome addition.