Learn Cantonese for Beginners
Twelve structured units take Cantonese from initials and tones through everyday conversation, with traditional characters and Jyutping throughout.
10 apps on Google Play
Beginner-first courses for languages most apps under-serve.
Twelve structured units take Cantonese from initials and tones through everyday conversation, with traditional characters and Jyutping throughout.
A beginner Thai course covering the script, tones, grammar and travel phrases in short daily lessons, with an English track for Thai speakers.
Learn Standard Malay from zero through situation-based lessons in vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and everyday conversation.
A beginner Russian course that starts at the Cyrillic alphabet and builds through vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to everyday conversation.
A beginner Khmer course covering the alphabet, everyday vocabulary and Cambodia travel phrases, with an English track for Khmer speakers.
Structured Vietnamese lessons covering tones, pronunciation, topic vocabulary, grammar and travel phrases, with an English track for Vietnamese speakers.
A beginner Lao course covering the alphabet, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and travel phrases, with an English track for Lao speakers.
A structured Italian beginner course covering vocabulary, grammar, listening and pronunciation, with an English track for Italian speakers.
A beginner Marathi course covering the Devanagari script, everyday vocabulary, grammar and conversation, with English romanisation throughout.
A 12-unit Shanghainese course covering characters, romanisation, tone sandhi and everyday conversation, built for beginners.
About this category
Most language apps invest heavily in Spanish, French, and Japanese, and comparatively little in the languages millions of people actually need for family, travel, or work — Cantonese, Thai, Malay, Khmer, Marathi, Shanghainese.
These apps target that gap. They start from a genuine beginner position: script and pronunciation first, then the vocabulary and phrases you would realistically use in a first conversation.
Guides
80 guides from the studio that builds these apps, covering how they work and where their limits are — a few of them below.
Grammatically correct Cantonese still sounds wrong without particles. What sentence-final particles do, why they are not tones, and how to start using them.
Dictation is the one drill that joins listening to an unfamiliar script. What it tests, what the research supports, and how to run it in ten minutes a day.
A heritage learner arrives with listening ahead of reading and gaps in between. Why that profile needs a different study plan, with Shanghainese as the case.
Lao numerals, the words from one to a hundred, the irregular twenty, and the thousand-and-above units that carry prices when you are buying something.
What changes when a bilingual course is switched round: explanations in Marathi, a new script to decode, and the specific gaps a Marathi speaker starts with.
Repeating a Malay word can mark plurality, signal variety, or form a word with no single half. Telling the three apart, with dictionary-checked examples.
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Every Reign Creative LLC app is free to download on Google Play, published under Reign Collective Apps.