Turn anything into
a Cantonese lesson.
Point Canto Coach at a YouTube video, a podcast, a magazine, a menu. It reads the source, ranks every word and grammar point by frequency, grades the level, and builds a lesson that tracks with you.
You choose the material. The coach brings the structure.
Most self-study tools force a trade-off. A fixed course gives you structure but rarely matches what you want to understand. Random content gives you motivation but gets scattered, too hard, or inefficient fast. Canto Coach sits between the two — you bring the material, and it turns it into a sequence you can actually learn from.
Your source material is everywhere.
Canto Coach doesn't ship a fixed textbook. Bring the Cantonese you actually want to understand — it becomes the lesson.
Video
Vlogs, interviews, news clips — bring one in and learn from it.
Audio
Long-form talk radio and shows, broken down to your level.
Reading
Paste the text or a URL; keep the writing you're reading anyway.
Screen
Dramas and variety shows — learn the lines as they're spoken.
Long-form
Chapters, short stories, textbooks — a page at a time.
Real life
Snap a photo of the menu and learn to order like a local.
From a raw clip to a lesson that fits you.
Six steps run automatically the moment you bring something in. Each one is keyed to a tone colour, in order.
Bring a source
Paste a YouTube or article link, drop in a file, or snap a photo. Start with the Cantonese you actually want to understand.
Read the source
Whatever you bring — a link, a file, a photo, a transcript — becomes clean Cantonese text, characters and jyutping, ready to work from.
Rank by frequency
Every word and grammar point is scored by how often it's actually used in Cantonese — so you know what's worth learning first.
Grade the level
The material is mapped across CEFR-style bands A1 to C2, against your own target level — a band gate holds back above-level items until you're ready for them.
Get a recommendation
Canto Coach tells you whether a source is worth your time right now — study it, or save it for later when your level catches up.
Work through it
Saved lessons become tone-coloured, spaced-repetition drills that track your progress. A native speaker grades your speaking along the way.
Not every useful word belongs in today's lesson.
Canto Coach weighs the material, your level, your history, and the difficulty of each word and grammar point — then decides what to teach now, what to keep as reference, what to save for later, and what deserves its own lesson when you're ready. A single source can become more than one lesson.
Learn now
The words and patterns you can actually use at your level today.
Save for later
Harder vocabulary and grammar, held back until your level catches up.
Split into stages
A rich source becomes several right-sized lessons instead of one overwhelming one.
Keep it active
A review path so the useful material stays with you over time.
The machinery that turns noise into a study plan.
Each part does one job well. Together they decide what you learn, in what order, and whether a source is worth your time yet.
Ranks by real-world use
Scores every word and grammar point by how common it is across real Cantonese, so your effort goes where it counts first.
Places it on A1 → C2
Grades each source across CEFR-style bands and gates anything above your B2 target out of active drilling — present for reference, never pushed early.
Study now, or save it
Weighs level, frequency, and what you already know to make one clear call — dig in today, or shelve it for when you're ready.
Finds material for you
Goes looking on its own — surfacing YouTube clips, podcasts, and public-domain sources pitched at your current level.
A real ear, when you want one
An AI coach keeps you talking; add any native speaker — a tutor, teacher, or friend — to grade your recordings 1–10 and target your weak spots.
Makes it stick
FSRS-5 spaced repetition, the six-tone colour system, and native-speaker grading — the engine that turns a lesson into lasting memory.
Colour is the language.
Every character and jyutping syllable is coloured by its tone — the same six colours that run through the logo, the progress bars, and every lesson. You start seeing the melody of Cantonese, not just reading it.
Standing on open shoulders.
Canto Coach aligns with the tools serious learners already trust and builds on openly-licensed data — so what you learn here matches what you use elsewhere.
Pleco
Our six-tone colours follow Pleco's Cantonese scheme — what you see here matches what you study there.
CC-CEDICT & CC-Canto
The open Chinese–English dictionary and openly-licensed Cantonese readings behind our definitions and jyutping.
Licensed & private sources
Bring in licensed courses or your teacher's materials — they stay private to your account. Never shared. Never used to train AI.
Open course resources
Openly-licensed Cantonese material can be loaded in as sources — enhancing your learning at no additional cost.
Learn Cantonese from your world.
Self-study Cantonese, built from the material you already care about.