Cantonese · A2 · 5 lessons
A2 graded reading in Cantonese
Short stories using only A2 words. Read, tap, listen, and learn new words as you go.
- Tap any word for instant translations and Jyutping
- Natural audio with word-by-word highlight
- Save words, review them daily
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我嘅一日
A simple written Cantonese day.
我朝早七點起身。
去茶餐廳
Ordering at a cha chaan teng.
Locked搭港鐵
Taking the MTR and asking the way.
Locked星期六做咩好？
Planning a Saturday.
Locked學廣東話有咩難？
What makes Cantonese hard, and why it is worth it.
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About these A2 stories
Written Cantonese is not a romanisation of speech and it is not Standard Chinese with a Hong Kong accent. These five A2 stories use the characters people actually type: 嘅, 咩, 喺, and the rest of the small set that makes a sentence sound like Cantonese on the page. The first story is an ordinary day. Then a cha chaan teng order, a ride on the MTR, a Saturday plan, and a short note on why the language is awkward to learn and still worth it. Tap any word for a translation and for Jyutping, which is the pronunciation aid here, not Hanyu Pinyin. Audio plays the line in Cantonese while the current word is highlighted, so you can hear the tone that the numbers in Jyutping only hint at. Save a word with its sentence. A character you already know from Mandarin may not mean the same thing in this sentence, and the saved line is what keeps that difference honest at review.