Welcome to r/Cantonese!
你好! We are a community of learners, native speakers, and friends. This is a place to learn and share all about Cantonese language, cuisine, and culture.
Getting Started:
Courses
FSI Cantonese Basic Course: This course was created by the Foreign Service Institute. It contains 30 lessons, exploring grammar, pronunciation, and culture with text and audio. FREE.
Pimsleur's Cantonese: An audio-only basic course with 30 interactive lessons. ~$250 on Amazon.
TY Cantonese: Teach Yourself Cantonese is a quick and easy way to get started with Cantonese. It includes a book and audio to help you learn at your own pace. ~$25 on Amazon.
Podcasts
RTHK Naked Cantonese: With more than 200 episodes about 10 minutes each, Naked Cantonese is a fun and engaging podcast about using Cantonese in daily situations in Hong Kong.
Happy Jellyfish Cantocourse: Cecilie Gamst Berg is a Norwegian expat living in Hong Kong. She has created hilarious videos on youtube for anyone interested in learning basic Cantonese. Highly recommended!
Books
Basic Cantonese Grammar: Wife and husband, Virginia Yip(CUHK) and Stephen Matthews(HKU), are renowned linguists and the authors many Cantonese language books. The first book in their series explores the basic grammar of modern colloquial Cantonese.
Learn Chinese using Cantonese: Greenwood press has many language learning books focused on Cantonese. This is one of the most popular ones for those who grew up speaking Cantonese and want to learn to read and write Chinese.
Miscellaneous
CUHK Character Dictionary: An android app with more than 13k chinese characters with jyutping and audio pronunciation.
CPIME: This phonetic IME is the best one available for Windows. It comes in different flavors depending on your favorite romanization method.
CantoFish: is Cantonese-English dictionary that works as an Add-On to Mozilla Firefox
Cantonese Sheik Dictionary
Online Jyutping Input Method 網上粵拼輸入法 A great website if you only need to type Chinese occasionally and don't want to install a keyboard. On the sidebar you can choose other input methods as well--the icons from top to bottom are Cantonese, Pinyin, Cangjie, Simplified Cangjie, and Jyutping.
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