What happens between your lessons

A student sees a teacher for maybe two hours a week. There are a hundred and sixty-six hours left in that week, and that's where Thai gets lost. I'm learning Thai myself right now, from a physical book, so I hit this from the same side you do — the lesson isn't the hard part. The five days after it are.

What this actually is

Effortless Thai is spaced repetition on the Thai a student has already met in class — not a fresh vocabulary list, the words and phrases they've actually been taught. Every card shows the tones and the vowel length instead of explaining them, because explaining a tone in a paragraph doesn't teach anyone to hear one. It's a website. There's nothing to install and nothing to configure.

It is not a course. It doesn't replace a teacher, and it has no lesson plan of its own — it's the few minutes between the lessons a teacher already gives. Two learners told me, unprompted, that they couldn't tell what my own review buttons did, so I'd rather undersell this than describe something cleverer than it is: a card shows a phrase, the student says how well they knew it, and the app decides when to show it again.

Why a school would care

There's nothing here for a teacher to mark, administer, or learn to use. A student opens it on their own phone, in their own time, the same as anyone else using it.

What do your students use between lessons?

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