Bites, not lessons
My ADHD could not get through a long lesson. So every lesson is a bite: at most 20 screens and two or three new things. Stop in the middle, come back later, and it remembers where you were.
Try a bite
Five questions. Thirty seconds. Go.
This is how a lesson feels in the app: tap, check, combo, cheer.
🔥 2 in a row
Peek inside
What's in the app
Swipe, and tap a phone ✨
Hi, I'm Anastasiia
Why this app exists
Every Thai course I tried started with "the cat is under the table". Meanwhile I needed to find my Grab rider, order without coriander and not freeze when someone said something back. Jingjok is the Thai I actually use, in the order I needed it, built so that someone with a busy head (hi) can finish a lesson.
Why "Jingjok"? จิ้งจก is the tiny house gecko that lives on every wall here and chirps at night. Thais say that if a gecko chirps just as you're leaving, you should wait a moment before you go. He's small, a bit noisy, and everywhere. Like Thai once you start hearing it.
Why it's made like this
Small decisions, real reasons
Hello, thanks, sorry and "it's fine"
The first lesson is the four things you say twenty times a day. The last one does most of the work.
ไม่เป็นไร mâi bpen rai · no worriesYes, there's a smoking lesson
Early on, right after the greetings. Asking for a light or an ashtray is real life here, and no textbook teaches it. Honest apps teach the Thai people actually use.
มีไฟแช็กไหม got a light?Surfing on day one
I want to talk to my surf instructor only in Thai. So the surf lessons come early: paddle, pop up, wait for the next wave. And the words that make it fun come first.
ลูกนี้เลย! this one, go!Three lessons for one Grab ride
Finding your rider, "left here", "slower please", paying cash. A motorbike taxi is where Thai gets tested every single day, so it got a whole block.
ขับช้าๆ หน่อย slower, pleaseMore chili, no coriander
At the night market I wanted to say exactly what I want, not just point. So there are lessons for more, less, none and "swap it for chicken".
ไม่ใส่ผักชี no corianderThe trainer started on a motorbike
Riding up a hill one day, I realised I had no idea how to say "uphill". Now you can search any word, hear it, see how to remember it, tap + and train only your own words.
ขึ้นเขา kûen-kǎo · uphillWord by word
Getting a sentence right is not the same as understanding it. After sentence exercises you see each word with its sound and meaning, so the structure finally clicks.
ขอโทษ · นะ · คะ sorry · softener · politeJok has secrets
Seven hidden moments in the app. Here are three.
I wanted the app to feel made by a person, not a factory. So Jok, the gecko, does things nobody asked for.
Five taps, no tail
Tap Jok five times fast and he drops his tail, like real geckos do. It grows back.
Night owl
After 11 pm Jok gets sleepy. Poke him and he yawns. Go to bed.
จิ้งจกทัก
Sometimes when you close a lesson, Jok chirps. In Thailand that means: wait a moment before you go.
The other four you find yourself. This page has a few of its own, too.
What I promised myself
House rules
Every word works on day oneNothing you'll only need in an exam. If I wouldn't
say it this week, it waits.
Short enough for a busy headBites you can finish on a Grab ride, and memory
hooks so words stick without cramming.
No account, nothing personal collectedYour progress lives on your phone. Anonymous
usage counts help me see what works, and you can switch them off in one tap.