Language Canvas

Name: Language Canvas
Address: 319 W Simpson Street #211, Tucson, AZ, 85701, US
Telephone: (520) 477-1523

Home
United States
Tucson, AZ
Language Canvas

Online Language Learning for Cantonese,Portuguese,Korean,Kurmanji Kurdish,Kazakh,Turkish,Ukrainian

Online language learning for Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurmanji Kurdish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Learn language and culture online by following original, engaging stories designed by experts. Watch videos with transcriptions and annotations, listen to translations, and test your knowledge with exercises. Click on almost any word and sentence and hear it spoken by a native speaker! Our mobile-friendly courses are based on decades of our research and development at the University of Arizona.

11/01/2026

98 years ago today, on November 1, 1928, Turkey adopted the alphabet it still uses 🇹🇷

The Turkish alphabet: all 29 letters, spoken by a native speaker 🔤

Dotted İ i and dotless I ı are two different letters, and there's no Q, W or X.

This is the alphabet page from our online course Beginning Turkish. Tap any letter to hear it.

Course authored by Prof. András J. E. Bodrogligeti, former UCLA Professor of Turkic and Iranian Studies.

▶ Try free sample lessons: languagecanvas.com/turkish/fb

11/01/2026

10/25/2026

Happy Republic Day, Kazakhstan! 🇰🇿

The Kazakh alphabet: all 42 letters, spoken by a native speaker 🔤

The Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet has 9 letters you won't find in the Russian alphabet: Ә Ғ Қ Ң Ө Ұ Ү Һ І.

This is the free alphabet page from our online course Beginning Kazakh. Tap any letter to hear it.

Course authored by Ablahat Ibrahim, PhD.

▶ Try free sample lessons: languagecanvas.com/kazakh/fb

10/20/2026

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Turkish — the complete path 🇹🇷

Three full courses, each equivalent to a year of college study. Start with 20 lessons and 29 native-speaker videos from Prof. András J. E. Bodrogligeti (former UCLA Professor of Turkic and Iranian Studies); travel Istanbul, Bursa and Safranbolu with Mark in Intermediate; finish with 20 lessons of real dialogue in Advanced, designed by Jessica Tiregol, PhD (Princeton).

"I love that I can click on each word individually for both pronunciation and meaning in English." — Language Canvas student

Every lesson: pause the video, scroll the transcript, click almost any word to hear it spoken. $9.99/month (3-month minimum) — any course, any level.

▶ All three courses and free samples: https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/turkish/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=promo-calendar&utm_content=turkish-pathway

10/15/2026

Lesson videos, upgraded 🎬

We went back to the original course videos and re-encoded every lesson in all 12 Language Canvas courses. The picture is sharper in every course, and seven courses now play at twice the resolution (640×480, up from 320×240) in a larger player: Beginning Kurmanji Kurdish, Intermediate Cantonese, Intermediate and Advanced Turkish, Beginning and Intermediate Ukrainian, and Intermediate Kazakh.

Same native-speaker lessons. Now you can read the whiteboard.

Shown: Advanced Turkish, Lessons 9–10, designed by Jessica Tiregol, PhD.

▶ Try a free sample lesson: https://www.languagecanvas.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=video-upgrade

10/13/2026

Most Turkish courses stop long before this point 🇹🇷

Advanced Turkish is 20 lessons of real native-speaker dialogue: Nasreddin Hoca tales, business and trade, Hagia Sophia, internet culture, television and soccer. The level where you stop studying Turkish and start using it.

Pause any video, scroll the transcript, and click almost any word or sentence to hear it spoken and see what it means.

Designed by Jessica Tiregol, PhD (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton). Equivalent to a full year of college Turkish. $9.99/month (3-month minimum).

▶ Free sample lessons: https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/turkish/advanced-turkish/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=promo-calendar&utm_content=tur3

10/08/2026

Here's how our interactive video player works, shown with Lesson 1 of Beginning Kazakh 🇰🇿

Follow along with the transcript of the dialogue and read notes on culture, grammar, and usage. Click almost any word or sentence to hear it spoken, with English translations.

Course designed by Ablahat Ibrahim, PhD.

▶ Try free sample lessons: https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/kazakh/beginning-kazakh/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lesson-clips&utm_content=kaz1-player-demo

09/29/2026

Starting Turkish from zero? 🇹🇷

Beginning Turkish is a full first-year course: 20 lessons, 29 native-speaker videos and 9,400 word and sentence recordings — with audio flashcards, listening dictation, a custom Turkish keyboard and a searchable audio glossary. Every lesson closes with a Turkish proverb.

"I love that I can click on each word individually for both pronunciation and meaning in English." — Language Canvas student

Designed by Prof. András J. E. Bodrogligeti, former UCLA Professor of Turkic and Iranian Studies. Equivalent to a full year of college Turkish. $9.99/month (3-month minimum).

▶ Free sample lessons: https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/turkish/beginning-turkish/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=promo-calendar&utm_content=tur1

09/22/2026

Brazilian Portuguese — the way it's spoken in Brazil 🇧🇷

Follow Helena, an American exchange student, as she arrives in Recife and lives with a Brazilian family: Carnaval, the open market, the beach, and a trip up the Amazon. 20 lessons, 39 native-speaker videos and 9,000 audio recordings.

Pause any video, scroll the transcript, and click almost any word or sentence to hear it spoken and see what it means.

Designed by Rosângela Souto Silva, PhD (Applied Portuguese Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Equivalent to a full year of college Portuguese. $9.99/month (3-month minimum).

▶ Free sample lessons: https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/brazilian-portuguese/beginning-brazilian-portuguese/

09/17/2026

Nobody teaches Kazakh past the basics. We do 🇰🇿

Intermediate Kazakh covers five real-world units — Education, Government & Diplomacy, Natural Resources, Business & Agriculture, and Culture — pairing native-speaker video dialogues with clickable transcripts. Tap any word for instant audio and translation.

Reading passages, listening dictation, and grammar deep-dives on vowel harmony, possessives, participles, passive voice and conditionals.

Course by Akmaral Mukanova. A full college year. $9.99/month.

▶ https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/kazakh/intermediate-kazakh/

#Қазақша

Address

319 W Simpson Street #211
Tucson, AZ
85701

Telephone

(520) 477-1523

Website

https://www.languagecanvas.com/fb

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Language Canvas posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.