A Thai Quest
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The Naga's Tongue
You wash ashore with your voice stolen. To reclaim it you climb a giant serpent by mastering real Thai — listening, reading the script, and speaking back.
How it works
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Greetings, food, the market, directions, numbers and feelings — the Thai you need in your first week.
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Consonants, vowels, tones and numerals, taught in the order that makes them stick rather than alphabetically.
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Part II opens the deep river: real conversation, idiom, particles and the irregular spellings nobody warns you about.
The details
Recorded audio for each line, so you hear the tones as well as read them. Thai is a tonal language; a phrasebook alone will not get you there.
Most beginners stall because they lean on romanisation forever. Here the script is the point, introduced gently from the first chapter.
No prior Thai and no account. Open it and start — progress saves on your device.
Vocabulary you are motivated to remember, because the next part of the climb depends on it.
Inside the app
Pricing
Part I — The Climb
Free
Free, and staying free.
Part II — The Deep River
In-app one-time purchase
Where it gets real.
US pricing shown.
Questions
No. Part I assumes nothing at all — it starts with greetings and the sounds of the language, and introduces the alphabet gradually.
Yes, and that is the point of Part I. You learn consonants, vowels, tone marks and Thai numerals rather than relying on romanisation forever.
Yes. Every phrase has recorded audio so you hear the tones, which matters more in Thai than in most languages.
Real conversation, idiom, particles and politeness registers, plus the deeper script — rare consonants, clusters and irregular spellings.
Part I is free to play in a browser. The iPhone and iPad app adds Part II and keeps your progress on your device.
No. There is no sign-up and no ads. Progress is stored on your device.
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.