Welcome to Cantonese Tools.org
- The site for learning Cantonese.
We have 18 resources and apps for learning Cantonese. Our resources are designed for Cantonese teachers and learners alike; some are also helpful for general use online. All of the applications and resources on our website are built to function in most current browsers and are free to use. Whether you are learning Cantonese or teaching Cantonese, we hope that our resources will be useful to you!
Starting learning Cantonese
These resources are great for Cantonese beginners.
Generate Cantonese worksheets
Cantonese Sentence Create Blank Spaces
This is a generator for worksheets with blank spaces for students to input their own answers. You click on a word in a piece of text and then that word is put in brackets with a space before it for the students to write their answers. This can be used by teachers for many purposes, for grammar, testing new vocabulary etc.
Cantonese Stroke Order Word Search Creator
This resource creates very hard "word searches" with Cantonese stroke order. The word searches can be ordered from top to bottom, left to right and diagonally (up and down). If a character has 10 strokes, it will appear across 10 squares.
Jumble Up Cantonese Sentences
This resource changes the order of sentences in Cantonese Chinese so that students need to work out the correct order the words should appear in. All the worksheets are printable with the option of an answer key.
Create Chinese New Year scrolls
Create sets of 春聯 (3 banners) with lots of different options for customization, including displaying your text from left-to-right and/or top-to-bottom. There are a great way to explore Cantonese culture with students.
Create Cantonese Writing Sheets with Jyutping
Create worksheets for character stroke order for Cantonese. You have the option to add Jyutping, and there are hundreds of possible customizations including text size, spacing, borders, colors etc. etc. This is one of our most popular resources and teachers around the world are using it.
Cantonese Sentence Fill In The Gap
Create Cantonese fill in the gap worksheets. These are very useful for teachers testing comprehension or even grammar. For these worksheets, there is only one right answer for each gap. When you create the printable worksheets, you can choose if they print with or without the answers so that students can mark their own work.
Create Cantonese Number Bingo Sheet
Create bingo sheets by typing Arabic numerals and choosing the size of the grid that you want. These numbers will then appear as Cantonese text numbers in the bingo sheets. As always, there is an option to print an "answer sheet" and however many sheets you want without answers.
Create Cantonese Random Number Bingo Sheet
This worksheet creator is similar to another Cantonese number worksheet generator we have, but it doesn't require you to input specific numbers. Instead, you just input a range of numbers you want (e.g. 1-100) and the bingo sheets are randomly generated. Perfect to then use in class!
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Learn Cantonese FAQ
It is often said that Cantonese is one of the most difficult languages to learn. This may be true for people who are not familiar with Chinese characters, but learning conversational Cantonese is not as hard as you might think. Our resources are primarily focused on listening to Cantonese (enter Cantonese text and it will be read aloud), writing Cantonese (worksheets) and other worksheet tools. We currently have no Cantonese dictionary, but we are planning this in future.
The word order in Cantonese is similar to that of other languages like Mandarin (but different to European languages. The basic word order is Subject-Verb-Object. Cantonese has a number of particles that are used to indicate the grammatical function of a word in a sentence.
Cantonese is spoken in the south of China, particularly in Hong Kong and Macau as well as overseas Chinese communities around the world. Mandarin and Cantonese are quite different, both in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary. However, they are both written using Chinese characters, so there is some overlap in written Chinese between the two languages. Cantonese is always written in Traditional Chinese.
There are several romanisation systems for Cantonese, but the two most common ones are Jyutping and Yale. Romanisation systems are used to represent the sounds of a language using the Latin alphabet. This can be helpful for people who are learning Cantonese, as it can be difficult to read Chinese characters.
