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Free Cantonese learning resources

3 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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CantoneseClass101 Youtube(opens in a new tab)

Tips and lessons for Cantonese learners.

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Beginner–Intermediate
Easy Cantonese(opens in a new tab)

"Easy Cantonese helps you learn Cantonese from the streets!"

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Beginner–Intermediate
伯賴(opens in a new tab)

"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."

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Intermediate–Advanced

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.