Learn practical Cantonese for everyday life in Hong Kong.
Canto School helps English speakers understand Cantonese and find a useful reply. Practise meeting people, ordering food, travelling, paying, making plans and handling everyday problems.
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
Brand new or already speaking some Cantonese? Choose the description that fits you, or try the optional free check with recorded listening and reply choices. Find a suggested starting point you can change. No microphone is needed. The check does not certify proficiency or mark lessons complete.
ONE CLEAR LESSON PATH
Follow 236 lessons across 18 stages, from first words to everyday exchanges and changing plans. The Bloom design has clear lesson symbols, a simple scrolling path and Auntie beside your next lesson.
YOUR FIRST STAGE IS FREE
Start with First words, then meet a neighbour, order a drink and find the station. Stage 1 includes 26 lessons and an optional mixed check, with recorded audio and word meanings inside its lessons. Try three greeting recordings in Build and Vocab: Hello, Good morning and Bye. No subscription is needed for this free content, and it has no trial countdown.
GO FURTHER WITH FULL COURSE
Full Course is an optional monthly subscription including every stage, all Build recordings, all 618 Word Bank recordings, Review practice and the four optional Theory guides. Learn Jyutping, tones, useful sentence patterns and politeness through diagrams, recorded examples and practice with feedback. Theory is extra support, not a requirement for moving through the course.
Your local monthly price is shown before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. It renews monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account subscription settings. Access continues until the paid period ends; saved learning progress is retained.
Already bought Canto School as a paid app or purchased the previous lifetime Full Course unlock? Your existing access stays yours without subscribing. Find Restore purchases in Profile's course-access screen.
LISTEN, UNDERSTAND, AND REPLY
Hear recorded Cantonese, follow Traditional Chinese and Jyutping with tone numbers, and use English support. Replay a line, slow down phrase audio, and tap words or expressions for their meaning in context.
BUILD SOMETHING YOU CAN SAY
Choose English words and see a Cantonese phrase take shape. Change a word, undo a choice and hear its recording. Full Course unlocks recordings beyond the three free greetings.
PRACTISE SPEAKING YOUR WAY
Hear a model, record and replay an attempt. On supported iPhones, optional on-device Cantonese recognition checks whether the model phrase was understood. Speaking practice is unscored. Choose Quiet to practise with tappable words, or practise aloud without a recording when microphone access is off.
KEEP USEFUL WORDS CLOSE
Browse and save phrases, search by English, Jyutping or Traditional Chinese, and check word meanings. Full Course adds recordings beyond the three free greetings and Review sessions for language you have met in the course. Listening and reply practice contribute separately to progress.
LEARN OFFLINE, WITHOUT A CANTO SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Lessons, recordings, word explanations and review are bundled. Purchases, restores and verification use Apple's services and may need an internet connection. Previously verified subscription access works offline until its verified expiry. Speaking feedback depends on your iPhone's capabilities.
Set an optional daily reminder in Profile. It stays on your device and is off until you turn it on.
There are no ads or tracking. Learning progress stays on your device. Speaking recordings are temporary and are not uploaded to Canto School.
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