New content every day • 5-minute routine read • All materials in Spoken Cantonese • Jyutping romanization • Text proofread manually with AI generated audio as supplement • No App/Classes

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After ten years of teaching Cantonese, I decided to embark on a side project that aims at providing short and simple Cantonese lessons to beginners and intermediate learners – something that can be incorporated into daily routines, and prepared in spoken Cantonese only. I ended up building this mobile-friendly website offering one new 5-minute read every day, so reading Cantonese can be an easy habit – whether it is early in the morning with coffee, on the way to work, or in pajamas before bed, allowing constant exposure to the language.

Cantonese materials in this website are prepared in spoken Cantonese, as opposed to written traditional Chinese (e.g. subtitles in many Cantonese movies, blog post and newspapers in Hong Kong)[1][2], or a mix of both that could be frustrating to some learners. AI text-to-speech feature added on top of Chinese characters and Jyutping[3] romanization for additional aid. Each daily Cantonese lesson falls under one of these categories: “conversation” (focuses on communication/dialogue), “diary” (self expression and personal thoughts), and “excerpt” (descriptive language). On “Archive” page you can locate past lessons that are listed based on their categories.

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[1] More about Cantonese as a language here: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Linguistic diversity in Hong Kong
[2]Here are some resources that explains in detail the differences between spoken Cantonese and written traditional Chinese: CantoneseClass101 Written vs Spoken Cantonese (in this website “written Cantonese” refers to written traditional Chinese / standard written Chinese), The University of Hong Kong Written Cantonese and Implications for Hong Kong
[3] Jyutping is a standard Cantonese romanization system developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.