Is Sawasdee good for expats living in Thailand?

Yes, for vocabulary and listening: everyday words and sentences, polite particles, classifiers, and audio to train your ear. For conversation practice, add lessons or a language partner.

How many Thai words does the app have?

The Thai word list covers levels A1 to C1 with several thousand words. The first 300 are free.

Does the app help with speaking?

You can repeat every word and compare your recording with the original. There is no automatic pronunciation score, because no technology judges Thai tones reliably enough.

Learn Thai with an app: vocabulary, tones and script

Thai is a tonal language with its own script. Sawasdee trains exactly these three things: vocabulary that sticks, hearing the tones, and reading the script.

The first 300 Thai words with every trainer are free, plus the complete alphabet and tone trainers.

Thai vocabulary app with audio

Audio for every word, with slow playback. Record yourself and compare with the original.
Thai script, transcription and meaning together, plus everyday example sentences.
A Thai word list of its own, CEFR levels A1 to C1, with particles like ครับ/ค่ะ, classifiers and politeness levels.
FSRS spaced repetition: the app asks the words you are just starting to forget.
Words you keep mixing up are detected and practised side by side.

Learn to hear the five tones

In Thai, the tone changes the meaning. The tone trainer plays words and you pick the tone. It practises more where you often slip. It is completely free.

Read and write the Thai script

The alphabet trainer takes you through consonants, vowels and tone marks. In the stroke trainer you trace each letter with the right order, start point and direction. The alphabet trainer is completely free as well.

Offline, no ads

The app works offline and your progress stays on your device. Audio above level A1 is downloaded once. No ads, no tracking, no cloud AI in the learning path.

What Sawasdee is not

Sawasdee is not a video course and not a language partner. If you want to speak freely, combine it with lessons or conversations with Thai people. Sawasdee makes sure you have the words and understand them.