It started at a dinner table, with a lot of smiling and nodding — and no idea what anyone was saying.
Friends and family who speak Thai, and a growing frustration with being the one who couldn’t join in. Euan started private lessons to fix it.
The lessons were great — but everything learned on Tuesday was gone by Friday. And no app could hear the one thing that changes meaning in Thai: the tones. They all just rewarded tapping the right box.
Euan’s tutor, Pook, knew exactly how Thai should be taught. Euan knew how to build. So they built the app they both wished existed — she brought the teaching, he brought the tech.
The feature every other app skipped became the heart of Ravela: real-time tone feedback that hears your voice and shows you whether you’re right — on day one, not year one.
A full Thai learning app — native audio, an AI tutor, real-world missions and spaced review — built around actually speaking, and kept consistent between lessons. Still built by two people learning right alongside you.
Learning Thai the hard way, and building the tools he wished he’d had. Handles the tech, the product and everything that makes Ravela run.
The teaching heart of Ravela. Shapes how the language is taught in the app — and teaches private 1-to-1 lessons alongside it. Meet Pook →
Speak · Learn · Connect. Language isn’t about streaks or points — it’s about being able to sit at that dinner table and actually join in. Everything in Ravela points at that one moment: the first time real Thai comes out of your mouth and someone understands you.
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