Cantonese is spoken by about 65 million people. Cantonese proper. All Yue varieties together, including Taishanese, come to about 85 million.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien and Fuzhounese (Eastern Min Chinese). If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Structurally, verbs usually come before their objects; it is written in the Han script, and the course teaches the writing system letter by letter with pronunciation shown while you learn.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Cantonese sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,468 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 2,042 hours of study. Read how it works.
Most apps only teach Cantonese through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded; the difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.