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Game: which particle

What you will be able to do

Get ครับ, ค่ะ and คะ right without thinking about it.

A man has it easy: ครับ ends everything, statement or question. A woman has to switch — ค่ะ with a falling tone closes a statement, คะ with a high tone closes a question — and mixing them is the single commonest mistake a female learner makes, every day, in every shop. This game is twelve seconds of thinking that stops it becoming a habit.

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Common mistake

The two female particles are the same two letters. What separates them is the tone mark and the tone: ค่ะ falls, คะ rises to a high tone. If you cannot yet hear the difference, that is what the tone drills are for.

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