Learn Cantonese: Speak & Read

Learn Cantonese with audio flashcards, Jyutping, tones and Hong Kong phrases.

香 Learn Cantonese the way it's actually spoken in Hong Kong. Most language apps teach Mandarin (Putonghua) and skip Cantonese (Yue) entirely — this app is built for it, with real traditional Chinese characters (漢字), Jyutping romanization, and English on every flashcard.

🀄 BUILT FOR CANTONESE — THE LANGUAGE THE BIG APPS SKIP
Cantonese is spoken by tens of millions across Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong, yet the major bilingual language apps barely touch it. This app fills that gap. Every card is hand-checked for the correct traditional characters (as written in Hong Kong), valid Jyutping with tone numbers (1–6), and an accurate English meaning — so your pronunciation and accent are right from day one, not just your reading.

🗂️ FLASHCARDS THAT STICK (SMART SRS)
A proven 5-box Leitner spaced-repetition system (SRS). Get a card right and it moves to a longer interval — 0, 1, 3, 7, then 14 days; get it wrong and it drops back to box 1 for another drill sooner. You only review what you're about to forget, so every repeat and revision counts — quiz yourself daily instead of cramming before a trip. A card reaches "learned" once it clears box 5, so you always know exactly which words have truly stuck.

📅 BUILD A DAILY HABIT
• Set a daily review goal and watch your progress fill as you study
• Keep a daily streak to stay motivated day after day
• An end-of-session summary: cards reviewed, recall accuracy, new words memorized, and goal progress
• Hands-free audio review — hear every studied word spoken aloud for listening practice
• An optional daily reminder at a time you choose
• Per-deck progress so you can see exactly what you've learned and what's still due

📚 DECKS
The Starter deck covers the real basics for absolute beginners:
• Greetings & courtesy — hello, thank you, sorry, good morning
• Numbers 1–10
• Everyday food & drink vocabulary — tea, milk tea, dim sum, noodles
• Useful phrases for the menu and the bill — "how much?", "the bill, please", "add oil!"
More decks go deeper:
• Travel — getting around Hong Kong (MTR, taxi, transport, directions)
• Dining — ordering at a cha chaan teng or restaurant, reading a menu
• Numbers+ — bigger numbers, ordinals & measure words for shopping and money
• Advanced spaced-repetition stats — see exactly how your cards are spread across the five Leitner boxes, so you can spot which words need more drilling

📵 LEARN ANYWHERE, FULLY OFFLINE
Works completely offline — no account, no sign-up, no internet required. Your study cards, streak, and stats all live on your device.

WHY JYUTPING?
Jyutping is the LSHK standard romanization for Cantonese — not Mandarin pinyin. Its tone numbers (1–6) make the six Cantonese tones explicit, so you build real conversation-ready pronunciation from the start instead of just recognizing the script. Every card pairs the Jyutping with the traditional character and an English meaning, so reading, sound, and meaning reinforce each other at once.

PERFECT FOR
• Cantonese for absolute beginners starting from zero vocabulary
• Travelers heading to Hong Kong, Macau, or Guangdong
• Heritage speakers and family reconnecting with the language of home
• Anyone chasing fluency who loves yum cha, HK film, or Canto-pop

Whether you're moving to Hong Kong, visiting family, ordering at yum cha, or simply love the language, this app helps you learn Cantonese a few cards at a time — real vocabulary, real tones, real practice. 加油!

Download and start your first deck today.