Cantonese · 廣東話

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About Cantonese

Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic
Where it's spoken: Guangdong province, Hong Kong, Macau, and diaspora communities worldwide
Speakers: roughly 85 million speakers

Cantonese preserves more features of Middle Chinese than Mandarin does, including a fuller set of tones (traditionally counted as six to nine, depending on analysis) and final consonants that Mandarin lost. It shares a written tradition with Mandarin through Chinese characters even though the two are not mutually intelligible in speech. Hong Kong and Macau's colonial and trading history gave Cantonese an especially large global diaspora footprint relative to its home-region speaker count.

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Resource	Type	Levels	Cost	Verified
Wikipedia Cantonese Open reading practice by topic in the language's own Wikipedia edition.	reading	A2-C2	free	2026-07-22
Forvo Cantonese pronunciation dictionary Native-speaker word pronunciations, searchable.	reference	A1-C2	freemium	2026-07-22
Omniglot: Cantonese writing & pronunciation Script and orthography orientation with sample text.	reference	A1-B1	free	2026-07-22
DLI GLOSS (language search) Search GLOSS for authentic Cantonese reading/listening lessons — coverage varies by language.	course free	B1-C1	free	2026-07-22
Live Lingua Cantonese course library Public-domain FSI/Peace Corps course downloads with audio, where available — hub anchor.	course free	A1-B1	free	2026-07-22
italki Cantonese tutors Speaking-practice marketplace; confirm tutor availability for less common languages.	tutoring	A1-C2	paid	2026-07-22
uTalk Cantonese Topic-based vocabulary app covering 150+ languages, including less-common ones.	course paid	A1-A2	paid	2026-07-22
RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) Hong Kong public broadcaster; Cantonese news and radio archives.	listening	B1-C2	free	2026-07-22