Learn Cantonese for Beginners
Twelve structured units take Cantonese from initials and tones through everyday conversation, with traditional characters and Jyutping throughout.
5 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.
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.
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
8 guides written by the team that builds these apps, covering how they work and where their limits are.
Malay and Indonesian share most of their grammar and core vocabulary, then diverge in loanwords and false friends. Here is what differs and which one to study.
The six Russian cases, organised by the job each one does, with the animacy rule, the motion-versus-location split, and what beginners reliably get wrong.
Spaced repetition rests on two findings, not one. Here is what the research supports, what it does not, and how to use it without a scheduling algorithm.
How Cantonese tones really work, why Jyutping and traditional characters matter, and what a realistic first month of study looks like for an adult beginner.
Khmer has no tones, which removes the barrier most beginners fear. The writing system replaces it — here is what the Khmer script actually asks of you.
Malay gives beginners a Latin alphabet, no tones and no verb conjugation. Here is what that buys you, and where the real difficulty actually hides.
The 33 letters of Russian sorted into what you already read, what will trick you and what is new, plus the stress and cursive problems nobody warns you about.
What the Thai writing system asks of a beginner: consonant classes, vowels that surround the letter, and five tones that are spelled rather than marked.
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Every Reign Creative LLC app is free to download on Google Play, published under Reign Collective Apps.