Hear Thai Flash phonetics
Every symbol illustrated with native Thai audio
Thai Flash uses AUA-style notation (see the AUA system, rooted in Mary Haas’s work) so you can read Thai in the Latin alphabet. This section goes further: every symbol — consonants, vowels, finals, tones — includes native Thai audio (thank you แมว ☺️), so you can match what you see with what you hear. Since there are several accents in Thailand: I specify that the speaker comes from Korat, in Isan.
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