Free Cantonese learning resources
19 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study Cantonese: structured courses to build a foundation, dictionaries to look things up, and listening and reading material to spend real time in the language. Start with one course and one dictionary, then add listening once you can follow simple sentences.
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"Useful lessons on the sounds system and common mistakes."
Over 60.000 sentences translated from Cantonese to Mandarin and English.
"Comprehensive grammar guide and useful vocabulary lists."
A podcast for Cantonese learners on all levels of profficiency.
Tips and lessons for Cantonese learners.
"This utility takes a short Chinese passage (250 characters) and attempts to split it up into component Chinese words."
A list of resources for Cantonese learners by u/Rusty-Unicorn!
"Easy Cantonese helps you learn Cantonese from the streets!"
A podcast for learners on all levels of profficiency.
"A Chrome Extension That Speaks any Traditional Chinese word into Cantonese. Highly Reccomended"
"The views and experiences of an Australian learning Cantonese".
Free books in Cantonese.
"Simple but very useful Cantonese dictionary. It is a work in progress so some words will be missing and you need to sign in with facebook to see the full extent of words they have. However, this dictionary is unique because it is the only Cantonese-Cantonese dictionary I have seen with explanations in colloquial Cantonese. Also each entry is avaliable with an example sentence, jyutping and English."
"Satirical comedy Cartoon with all of his older videos with Cantonese subtitles. All the videos are short and really funny. But be careful, because his newer content has standard Chinese subtitles, and not Cantonese."
This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.