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Usage

Welcome — let's read some real Thai

Load real Thai — paste your own, scan a page with your camera (Quick Start, below), or pick a sample below — then highlight any span you're unsure of. From there you can Look up a word or phrase, Translate a longer passage, or Test your comprehension: give the gist in English or rephrase it in your own Thai, and get checked on the meaning, not a literal translation. Set the theme, font, and size that suit you on the left — the reading is the point.

Quick Start — read your own Thai

Hold steady, fill the frame, good light. ~20–30 cm away. Each photo or image is one page — capture or choose more to add pages.

Pages

Leave blank — the title is taken from the first scanned words.

Your account

Sign in to save your reading, grades, and notes. The guided demo works without an account.

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Guided demo

Curated Thai with highlighted spans you can tap — try Look up, Translate, and comprehension instantly, no setup.

Or load a real web page

The demo is curated; the app reads any Thai URL. A couple to try:

Or bring your own

Use Quick Start at the top to paste text, load a URL, or 📷 scan a page or a whole chapter with your camera — we OCR the Thai into a reading you can look up, translate, and test. Good free text/URL sources:

  • Graded / beginner: FluencyDrop, PolyThai Reader, Bloom Library — read there, copy a passage to paste.
  • News: BBC ไทย, Thai PBS, Prachatai — open an article, load its URL.
  • Literature / encyclopedia: Thai Wikisource, Thai Wikipedia — load by URL.
📱 Add it to your home screen

Installing gives you a full-screen, app-like reader with no browser address bar — the calmest way to read.

  • iPhone / iPad (Safari): tap the Share button (the square with an up-arrow), then Add to Home Screen.
  • Android (Chrome): tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen (it may also say Install app).

Then open Practice Thai from your home screen.

📱 Typing Thai on a phone?

Add a Thai keyboard in your phone's settings, then tap the 🌐 key to switch to it while typing.

  • iPhone: Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → ไทย
  • Android: Settings → System → Languages & input → your keyboard → Languages → add ไทย

How this app handles content & copyright →

My Library

Documents you've created — pasted, loaded from a URL, or scanned. Private to your account until you choose to share them.

Sign in to build your own library — your pasted, loaded, and scanned documents are saved privately to your account.

Nothing here yet — paste text, load a URL, or scan a page from Quick Start on the home page (⌂ Home). Or browse the Public library.

🗑 Recycle bin

Try it out

Curated Thai with highlighted spans you can tap — Look up, Translate, or test comprehension. Free, instant, no setup.

Public library

Everything you can open in the reader is freely licensed (Creative Commons or public domain) and credited to its source. External sources (news, graded apps) open on their own site — the app doesn't host them. Difficulty is an estimate to help you start.

Pages

↺ re-scan this page · 🗑 move to recycle bin · ◀ ▶ reorder (drag to reorder on desktop)

Your changes

No changes yet — open the document, select scanned text and tap “Edit scan” to fix it.

Recycle bin

Pages you deleted or replaced. They're kept for 30 days — recover one to put it back in its document.

Nothing in the recycle bin.

Manage document

Re-arrange or delete pages. Changes are staged — nothing is saved until you tap Save changes.

This scan looks low quality — recapture for clearer text.
Draw a box over the missing word.

Open a document from 📚 My Library, or create one from Quick Start on the ⌂ Home screen.

Try a highlighted span

Select text in the reader to look it up or test comprehension.

Selected (0 tokens):
◀ start ▶
◀ end ▶

Tap a highlighted span to try it in the demo.

New selection ready:

Choose a sample answer to see how the grader responds:

Load a real sample to try your own answers.

Fixing the scanned text — your selection is highlighted
Original Your edit
· Suggested fix
Scanned text Suggested change

Before you start

This is a private, non-commercial study tool. Load content for your own learning. You're responsible for what you paste — please don't paste paywalled or otherwise off-limits material. The app doesn't publish or share your content.

How this app handles content & copyright →

What can I do with a selection?

Look up
A quick meaning for a word or short phrase — definition plus dictionary entries. Greyed out for longer spans; use Translate or a comprehension test instead.
Translate
A full, natural English translation — works at any length, from a phrase to a whole passage.
Gist
Test your comprehension of a clause or longer: say what it means in English and get checked on the meaning, not the literal wording. Greyed for a single word — too short to test comprehension.
Rephrase
Test a clause or longer by rewriting it in your own Thai — checked for preserved meaning and naturalness. (Same size rule as Gist.)

A greyed action doesn't fit your current selection — Look up wants a word or short phrase; Gist and Rephrase want a clause or longer.

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Hit something weird or confusing, or have an idea? Tell us — what you were doing is attached automatically. No need to enter your name.

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