Cantonese Guru

In-app purchases
4,9
182 reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Cantonese Guru is one of the most effective and feature packed Cantonese learning apps in the market.

Whether you are a student, passionate or simply curious, our app will help you in your learning.

In addition to courses with a teacher or in self-study, it will be the ideal partner to reach a complete mastery of the language.

• TOCFL
• A1 → C2
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters - Cantonese characters


LISTS AND LEARNING SESSIONS
• Study the lists already available or create your own lists of Chinese characters and words. Just enter you words in Cantonese and the app will translate them. You can even download commonly used Chinese textbooks words lists.
• Follow your progress thanks to the smart lists. Review difficult elements or check your last errors.
• Browse your lists, edit them or choose the elements you want to include in your studies. You can also export your lists and even create writing sheets.
• The learning sessions will allow you to work on Chinese writing, translation, tones and pronunciation.

CHINESE WRITING
• Learn to write any Chinese character, stroke by stroke, until you master it.
• Many options are available.
• More than 10 000 Chinese characters are ready for use and many more are on their way.

TRANSLATION
• Remember easily the meanings and translations of your Chinese characters and words.
• Practice and learn to translate your Chinese characters and words from Cantonese into English or from English into Cantonese.

TONES
• Practice each Chinese character tone.
• Master the 6 tones of Cantonese

PRONUNCIATION
• Listening practice. Listen and find the right answer.
• Jyutping/Yale transcription practice.

DICTIONARY
• More than 140 000 entries are available.
• Search any word or Chinese character, from Cantonese, jyutping/yale, or English.
• Search any Chinese character from it radical or key, juste like in a paper Chinese dictionary.
• Draw a Chinese character stroke by stroke to find its translation.
• Browse the history of the entries you already referred to or manage your favorites list.
• Get the translations and other details about the selected entries.

READING
• Read Chinese texts and documents easily in the reading section.
• Create custom lists from the Chinese characters and words in your document.

CANTONESE LANGUAGE REFERENCE
• Transcription tables (Jyutping/Yale)
• Transcription systems
• Learn how to talk about colours, shapes, numbers, time, dates, Chinese zodiac
• Measurement units
• Chengyu and expressions
• Chinese characters by frequency
• Chinese characters radicals


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You need a subscription to access all features.

- a one-week free trial is offered for any subscription, except for the lifetime subscription.

- subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period.


Available subscriptions :

• 1 month (automatically renewed until canceled)
• 6 months (automatically renewed until canceled)
• 12 months (automatically renewed until canceled)
• Lifetime (one-time purchase)


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Terms of Use : https://www.xamisoft.com/cgu
Updated on
02 Apr 2025

Data safety

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Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4,9
176 reviews
Henry Inman
04 July 2025
great tool for serious learners. rating based on subscription version Good: -tons of built in lists -etymology, breaks down the meaning of each character -lots of study methods. switching between flashcards and multiple choice is easy to do but I personally didn't find intuitive to figure out how to do. -entering custom text for study provid -quick guides to shapes, days of the week, basics etc are useful Want to Have: -colorcoding based on tones.
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Dylan Charles
26 July 2025
Love the transcription service and the fact you can actually practice your writing here however the UI is incredibly obtuse to use, with its overwhelming variety of options and customisations. It's starting to put me off using the app and subscribe.
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Xamisoft
28 July 2025
Thank you for your feedback! The many options available were gradually added in response to user requests and make the app highly adaptable—even for power users. The app works perfectly well right out of the box. It’s fully optimized by default, so you can simply focus on learning. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us at contact@xamisoft.com!
Henry Yip
19 July 2025
Cantonese people say 今日, not 今天. This is a Mandarin app, not Cantonese, the developers don't even know the basics of Cantonese, they have no right to be teaching Cantonese. This app only teaches you Mandarin!
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Xamisoft
13 July 2025
Hi! 今日 is indeed included — it’s in the second default list. As you so well know, while some overlap exists between Mandarin and Cantonese (esp. in writing), our app teaches real spoken Cantonese with proper audio. Feel free to reach out if anything seems off!

What's new

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions!
- Bug fixes and improvements