Language Canvas

09/03/2026

Most Turkish apps leave you stranded after the basics 🇹🇷

Intermediate Turkish picks up exactly there. Follow Mark, an American college student, through Istanbul and the Bosphorus, the bazaars, Edirne and Bursa — 14 narrative video lessons with native speakers, plus tongue twisters, Turkish gestures, and 18 grammar reference modules.

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). A full college year. $9.99/month.

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

08/18/2026

Most Cantonese courses stop at "how much is this?" 🥢

Intermediate Cantonese is a real second-year course — 20 lessons of actual discussion: public health, identity, the Special Economic Zone, festivals, and the classic fable of Mr. Dongguo and the Wolf.

Babbel, Rosetta Stone and Busuu teach no Cantonese at all. Duolingo only offers it to Mandarin speakers. This is the level almost nothing reaches.

Chinese characters and Yale romanization throughout. Click almost any word to hear it spoken and see what it means. Designed by Beverly Hong-Fincher, Ph.D. — a full college year. $9.99/month.

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

#廣東話 #粵語

08/14/2026

Learn the Kurmanji Kurdish alphabet with a native speaker. 🔤

Our Kurmanji course uses a Latin/Hawar alphabet — in under a minute, hear each letter pronounced the way it's actually spoken.

This clip is from our online course Beginning Kurmanji Kurdish: 20 lessons, 25 native-speaker videos, and 9,000 audio recordings. Course designed by Deniz Ekici, PhD (University of Exeter), part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series.

▶ Start learning: https://www.languagecanvas.com/beginning-kurmanji-kurdish/

08/12/2026

Duolingo doesn't teach Kurmanji Kurdish. 15 million speakers, and almost nothing out there to learn from.

We built the course that should exist: 20 lessons, 25 native-speaker videos, and 9,000 audio recordings. Pause anytime, scroll the transcript, and click almost any word or sentence to hear it spoken and see what it means.

Designed by Deniz Ekici, PhD (University of Exeter), and originally published as part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series. Equivalent to a full year of college study.

▶ Free sample lessons: https://www.languagecanvas.com/beginning-kurmanji-kurdish/

08/06/2026

Twelve interactive language courses across seven languages — three of which Duolingo doesn't offer for English speakers: Kazakh, Kurmanji Kurdish and Cantonese.

🇹🇷 Turkish · 🇺🇦 Ukrainian · 🇰🇿 Kazakh · Kurmanji Kurdish · 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Cantonese · 🇰🇷 Korean

Every course is built around native-speaker video. Pause anytime, scroll the transcript, and click almost any word or sentence to hear it spoken and see what it means.

These aren't app-store phrase drills. Each course was developed and peer-reviewed by university language specialists, classroom-tested with real students, and is equivalent to a full year of college study — originally published as part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series, now rebuilt with mobile-friendly interactive features.

Try the free sample lessons before you decide — every course has them, with real video, transcripts and annotations.

▶ https://www.languagecanvas.com/
$9.99/month (3-month minimum)

08/04/2026

Most Cantonese courses stop at "hello" and "how much is this?"

Intermediate Cantonese doesn't. 20 lessons of real discussion — public health, Chinese-American identity, Shenzhen and the Special Economic Zone, the New Year, the Olympics, and the classic fable of Mr. Dongguo and the Wolf.

This is the level almost nothing in Cantonese reaches. Babbel, Rosetta Stone and Busuu offer no Cantonese at all; Duolingo only serves Mandarin speakers. Language Canvas takes you past the beginner ceiling.

✅ 20 lessons, each with text, dialog, and native-speaker video
✅ Chinese characters and Yale romanization throughout
✅ Click almost any word to hear it spoken and see what it means
✅ A full college year, designed by Beverly Hong-Fincher, Ph.D.

Already finished Beginning Cantonese? This is your next step. $9.99/month.

👉 languagecanvas.com

#廣東話 #粵語

08/02/2026

Around 85 million people speak Cantonese — and the major apps barely serve it.

Babbel, Rosetta Stone and Busuu don't teach it at all. Duolingo only offers it to Mandarin speakers. There's no real Cantonese course for English speakers on any of them.

Beginning Cantonese fills that gap properly — the Cantonese people actually speak, taught in English, with native-speaker video you can click through word by word.

✅ 20 units — from first greetings to renting a room, ordering dim sum, and discussing study plans
✅ 29 videos with native speakers
✅ 11,400 audio recordings — click any word and hear it spoken
✅ Every lesson in both Chinese characters and Yale romanization
✅ A full college year, designed by Dana Scott Bourgerie, Ph.D.

$9.99/month — and Intermediate Cantonese is waiting when you're ready.

Start today 👉 languagecanvas.com

#廣東話 #粵語

07/11/2026

Ready to go beyond the basics? Walk through Kyiv, ride the metro, celebrate Ukrainian Christmas — all in Ukrainian.

Intermediate Ukrainian is an interactive online course built around real conversations and real culture: from passport control at the airport to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Click any word or sentence to see its meaning and hear it spoken by a native speaker. Pause anytime, replay anything, learn at your own pace.

Designed by Oksana Sachyk, PhD, from the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series.

Continue your Ukrainian journey today → https://languagecanvas.com/

#Українська

07/01/2026

🎉 Language Canvas is now on YouTube! Subscribe for course previews and a closer look at how our interactive lessons help you learn Ukrainian, Turkish, Kazakh, Kurmanji Kurdish, and more — one clickable word at a time.
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06/30/2026

Why Learning a Language Still Matters

Learning another language is one of the deepest and most human things one can possibly do, writes Douglas Hofstadter.