A small, free, friendly tool — built for the kids of one village school in Isan.
Many Thai students learn to read English words long before they ever hear an English speaker say them. The result: lots of vocabulary, lots of grammar — and very little confidence to actually speak. Ploy is a tiny attempt to flip that.
The site lets a child press one button to hear a word, then press another to say it back. The microphone listens and tells them how close they got. No login. No score that follows them. No pressure. Just the loop: look · listen · speak — repeated until the sound feels familiar in their own mouth.
"Tongues, like muscles, only get strong by being used. Ploy is a place where children can use theirs without anyone laughing."
EnglishTeacher.com is loosely connected to a year-long program called Transcendent, which sends adults to teach English at a village school in northeast Thailand for six months as part of a longer journey. Those teachers came home and noticed that the children needed something to keep practicing on their own — between visits, after school, on a phone or a shared computer.
This site is what we built. It will keep growing as the school's needs change.
EnglishTeacher.com has no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, and never will. If you find it useful — for your own kids, for a classroom, for a community center anywhere in Thailand — please use it. Tell other teachers. Tell other students. That's enough.
— With love from Isan 🇹🇭
Using this in a classroom? Each topic page has a stable URL like practice.html?topic=animals — bookmark or print these for your students. Works on any modern phone, tablet, or computer with a microphone.
Have feedback or want to suggest more words? Write to us — we read every message.
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