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Glossika makes it easy for everybody to learn Thai without having to learn the writing system. If you want to read and write Thai, at the bottom of your session screen, turn on Full Practice mode. There is a Typing Guide below the typing box (it's not a pronunciation guide). If you want to practice speaking and listening, then turn on Listening Mode, and I strongly recommending turning on the "Recording" button as well! You'll get to see more detailed phonics in this mode for pronouncing Thai. Thai is romanized and taught here using the Royal Thai romanization. There are other romanizations that we're working on adding. Thai is not normally spaced, except between sentences, so we use the vertical bar to separate sentences in our transcriptions. Glossika offers transcriptions for all languages written in different scripts: ● Typing Guide (appears under the typing box): this adheres closely to actual spelling rules, and teaches you how to type in native scripts. For Thai, we teach you how to type using a the royal romanization + tone contour (F = falling, R = rising, H = high, M = mid, L = low). Long vowels are doubled. Feel free to turn on your Thai keyboard when you're confident enough, and start typing in Thai anytime you want. Make sure that you type tones after the stacked vowel and not before: the order counts! ● Pronunciation Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): the pronunciation guide is an easier to read version how to pronounce each word accurately. Tones are marked on top of the vowels using standard symbols: â = falling, ǎ = rising, á = high, a = mid, à = low. For you linguists out there, this pronunciation guide is "phonemic" and doesn't show allophones. ● Phonics Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): phonics is written in international phonetic alphabet (IPA), and for you linguists, this pronunciation guide is "phonetic" showing the allophones. What this means is some sounds change in special environments. This guide shows you the way a native speaker actually pronounces each word in detail. We help Thai learners by focusing on the pronunciation of the tone rather than the written number of the tone. This is because in written Thai, the tone category number is written rather than how the tone is pronounced, and this is quite confusing for anybody who is not Thai, or didn't grow up speaking Thai already. The first and last consonant of every syllable affects the way the tone is pronounced. We have a great blog article that introduces the Thai tonal system using an easy to read table and lots of color to help you learn it more easily. If you're interested in digging deeper, we compare Thai tones with all other tonal languages in Asia, showing you how everybody shares the same system. By understanding that Thais count their tone categories, and that other languages count the tone contours, will help you to compare and contrast what seem to be very different systems, but are actually very similar. Pronouns: we mostly use royal "we" (เรา/raw) throughout Glossika as a polite form of "I" (all sentences recorded by our male speaker) and without sentence ending gender. This is a really nice sounding "I" and immediately lets Thai people know that you're speaking to them from a position of respect and humility, which is always best practice. Our female speaker however has used female "I" and sentence-ending gender more frequently on her sentences. Some Thai words have alternate spellings (like we have in English "do not" and "don't"). We're working on standardizing Thai spelling in all sentences and adding the alternate spellings as well, so that your typed entries will work no matter how you type. Keep in mind that all foreign names are optional and are not required to be spelled accurately, or even typed at all. We post regular updates in notifications here on updates to Thai.

Glossika makes it easy for everybody to learn Korean without having to learn the writing system, although I must admit that if you've learned 한글 already, I know you're a probably a hard-core fan! If you want to read and write Korean, at the bottom of your session screen, turn on Full Practice mode. There is a Typing Guide below the typing box (it's not a pronunciation guide -- it's simply to show you the proper spelling of Korean words). If you want to practice speaking and listening, then turn on Listening Mode, and I strongly recommending turning on the "Recording" button as well! You'll get to see more detailed phonics in this mode for pronouncing Korean properly. Korean is romanized and taught here using one of the popular romanizations. Please keep in mind that Korean is written with spaces, unlike Chinese and Japanese. Glossika offers transcriptions for all languages written in different scripts: ● Typing Guide (appears under the typing box): this adheres closely to actual spelling rules, and teaches you how to type in native scripts. For Korean, we teach you how to type using one or two roman letters per Korean letter, as closely to the Korean spelling as possible. Korean has a lot of sound changes when spoken correctly, so do not rely on the typing guide as a pronunciation guide! Feel free to turn on your Korean keyboard when you're confident enough, and start typing in Korean anytime you want. Our romanized typing for Korean is a "fuzzy match" algorithm, which means that many letters have multiple romanized spellings that will be accepted. Don't be afraid to type in the "wrong" romanization different from what's shown on the screen, and don't be afraid to voice or devoice some consonants (b = p and r = l), because we know that the romanization is just a rough guide. ● Pronunciation Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): the pronunciation guide is an easier to read version how to pronounce each word accurately. For you linguists out there, this pronunciation guide is a "phonetic" romanization and DOES show allophones. This is actually different than most of our Glossika courses, but simply because it's a really bad idea to show a phonemic spelling for Korean. And you already get the phonemic spelling in the Typing Guide. What this means is almost all the consonants in Korean change in their environment next to other consonants. It's really important to internalize all these sound changes and produce them correctly if you want to be even remotely understood by Koreans. ● Phonics Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): phonics is written in international phonetic alphabet (IPA), and for you linguists, Glossika IPA is always a "phonetic" spelling showing the allophones. Basically our Korean IPA is the same as the pronunciation guide, but written in IPA symbols. Korean is not tonal at all, so we do not show any tonal or intonational details in our transcriptions. We post regular updates in notifications here on updates to Korean.

Glossika makes it easy for everybody to learn Chinese without having to learn the writing system. If you want to read and write Chinese, at the bottom of your session screen, turn on Full Practice mode. There is a Typing Guide below the typing box (it's not a pronunciation guide). If you want to practice speaking and listening, then turn on Listening Mode, and I strongly recommending turning on the "Recording" button as well! You'll get to see more detailed phonics in this mode for pronouncing Chinese. Chinese is romanized and taught using "Pinyin" which literally means "spell-sounds". We've added spaces between "words" in Chinese to help you recognize word boundaries and natural pacing for speaking. Glossika offers transcriptions for all languages written in different scripts: ● Typing Guide (appears under the typing box): this adheres closely to actual spelling rules, and teaches you how to type in native scripts. For Chinese, we teach you how to type using pinyin + tone number. Feel free to turn on your Chinese input editor when you're confident enough, and you can use the same spelling we've taught all along to start inputting characters. Chinese is not written with spaces, so all spaces are optional, including the pinyin. It doesn't matter if you input traditional or simplified characters, Glossika recognizes them all! You can even type your answers in older romanizations or Cyrillic pinyin! (only supported for Taiwan Mandarin) ● Pronunciation Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): the pinyin transcription shows you how to pronounce each word accurately. Tones are marked on top of the vowels using standard pinyin. For you linguists out there, this pronunciation guide is "phonemic" and doesn't show allophones. ● Phonics Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): phonics is written in international phonetic alphabet (IPA), and for you linguists, this pronunciation guide is "phonetic" showing the allophones. What this means is some sounds change in special environments. This guide shows you the way a native speaker actually pronounces each word in detail. Chinese has four tones, 1 = high flat, 2 = rising, 3 = low falling + rising, and 4 = high falling. Normally the 3rd tone is only pronounced using the low falling tone, however in front of another 3rd tone, you only pronounce the rising part of the tone. In our typing guide, you'll notice a 5th tone: this is the neutral tone. In fact, you don't even have to type the number 5 for these words, and you'll still get the answer right. We're working on adding more transcriptions for Chinese such as Zhuyin and support for older systems such as Wade-Giles. We post regular updates in notifications here on updates to Chinese.

Glossika makes it easy for everybody to learn Japanese without having to learn the writing system, although I bet you're probably intrigued and really hope to be able to read Japanese sooner than later. If you want to read and write Japanese, at the bottom of your session screen, turn on Full Practice mode. There is a Typing Guide below the typing box. This typing guide shows you how to type on a Japanese keyboard to produce the hiragana and katakana. If you want to practice speaking and listening, then turn on Listening Mode, and I strongly recommending turning on the "Recording" button as well! You'll get to see more detailed phonics in this mode for pronouncing Japanese properly. Glossika offers transcriptions for all languages written in different scripts: ● Typing Guide (appears under the typing box): this adheres closely to actual spelling rules, and teaches you how to type in native scripts. You'll notice that there are multiple methods for typing syllables like "tsu" and "chi" and other similar syllables, so we offer two transcriptions for Japanese as default. Feel free to turn on your Japanese keyboard when you're confident enough, and start typing in Japanese anytime you want. You'll get a drop-down menu to choose kanji as well (I'll go into more detail about Kanji below). Our character recognition for Japanese is a "fuzzy match" algorithm, which means that many letters have multiple spellings and characters that are possible. You may enter your answers with any level of Kanji, hiragana, or romanization. If a word requires katakana, then enter katakana only, or romanization. ● Characters: this transcription changes all hiragana possible in the sentence into any Kanji that may exist for those words, including rare kanji. None of the kanji in this transcription have pronunciation guides. ● Furigana: this transcription is the same as the Character transcription, showing all known Kanji in the sentence, but it also has ruby text, or small pronunciation characters in hiragana above each of the kanji. ● Pronunciation Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): the pronunciation guide is an easier to read version how to pronounce each word accurately. This is essentially a standard romanization of Japanese. ● Phonics Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): phonics is written in international phonetic alphabet (IPA), and for you linguists, Glossika IPA is always a "phonetic" spelling showing the allophones. What this means is some sounds change in special environments. This guide shows you the way a native speaker actually pronounces each word in detail. Japanese has pitch accent, so it's important to mimic the native speakers as best as possible. We currently do not support pitch accent in our transcriptions. Kanji Levels: The Japanese government publishes and tests the learning of Kanji (常用漢字/じょうようかんじ) on a scale of difficulty. All levels on Glossika (A1, A2, B1, B2, etc) are split into two levels: low and high. Each of these levels corresponds to a Kanji level, and we display the kanji for the level that you're at. However, you can always turn on Kanji at any time using transcriptions. We post regular updates in notifications here on updates to Japanese.

Glossika makes it easy for everybody to learn Chinese without having to learn the writing system. If you want to read and write Chinese, at the bottom of your session screen, turn on Full Practice mode. There is a Typing Guide below the typing box (it's not a pronunciation guide). If you want to practice speaking and listening, then turn on Listening Mode, and I strongly recommending turning on the "Recording" button as well! You'll get to see more detailed phonics in this mode for pronouncing Chinese. Chinese is romanized and taught using "Pinyin" which literally means "spell-sounds". We've added spaces between "words" in Chinese to help you recognize word boundaries and natural pacing for speaking. Glossika offers transcriptions for all languages written in different scripts: ● Typing Guide (appears under the typing box): this adheres closely to actual spelling rules, and teaches you how to type in native scripts. For Chinese, we teach you how to type using pinyin + tone number. Feel free to turn on your Chinese input editor when you're confident enough, and you can use the same spelling we've taught all along to start inputting characters. Chinese is not written with spaces, so all spaces are optional, including the pinyin. It doesn't matter if you input traditional or simplified characters, Glossika recognizes them all! You can even type your answers in older romanizations or Cyrillic pinyin! (only supported for Taiwan Mandarin) ● Pronunciation Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): the pinyin transcription shows you how to pronounce each word accurately. Tones are marked on top of the vowels using standard pinyin. For you linguists out there, this pronunciation guide is "phonemic" and doesn't show allophones. ● Phonics Guide (toggle on and off in listening and recording modes): phonics is written in international phonetic alphabet (IPA), and for you linguists, this pronunciation guide is "phonetic" showing the allophones. What this means is some sounds change in special environments. This guide shows you the way a native speaker actually pronounces each word in detail. Chinese has four tones, 1 = high flat, 2 = rising, 3 = low falling + rising, and 4 = high falling. Normally the 3rd tone is only pronounced using the low falling tone, however in front of another 3rd tone, you only pronounce the rising part of the tone. In our typing guide, you'll notice a 5th tone: this is the neutral tone. In fact, you don't even have to type the number 5 for these words, and you'll still get the answer right. We're working on adding more transcriptions for Chinese such as Zhuyin and support for older systems such as Wade-Giles. We post regular updates in notifications here on updates to Chinese.