Bricks, rules, and sentences of your own.
Every word you learn is a reusable brick. Checked rules combine them: you build correct sentences you never learnt by heart, then you transform them, listen to them and meet them again in real situations.
Six families of bricks
Every word comes in traditional characters, with its Yale romanisation (tone marks included), its audio and a meaning in context.
佢 means both “he” and “she”. The plural is made with 哋: 我哋 (we), 你哋 (you, plural), 佢哋 (they).
Verbs never change: 我飲, 佢飲, 我哋飲 – no -s, no past tense ending. 飲 is for drinks, 食 for food.
No articles, no gender, no compulsory plural. The place comes straight after the verb, with no “to”: 去餐廳 (go to the restaurant).
唔 negates, right before the verb; 冇 replaces 有 in the negative. A yes/no question repeats the verb with 唔 in the middle: 飲唔飲？
The assembly rules. Nothing is glued together word for word.
Six tones, shown in Yale romanisation by an accent on the vowel and a silent h for the low tones. The tone is part of the word: 詩 (poem) and 時 (time) are two different words.
The same bricks, everywhere
At a restaurant, on the move or meeting someone new, a few bricks are enough to make yourself understood.
Fifteen minutes a day
Adjustable from 5 to 30 minutes. Missing a day costs you nothing: your progress waits for you.
Lay your first brick.
Choose your goal and your pace, and the first lesson starts straight away.