Language Canvas

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)

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.

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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

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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/

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Click any Kurmanji word in a native-speaker video — hear it spoken, see what it means, then record your own voice and compare it to the speaker's.

Beginning Kurmanji Kurdish is an interactive online course: 20 lessons, 25 native-speaker videos, and 9,000 audio recordings. Dialogues set in Dihok, Southern Kurdistan bring you into real Kurdish life — food, markets, weather, literature, and holiday traditions. Plus a searchable audio glossary, custom Kurdish keyboard, and downloadable podcasts for offline study.

Course designed by Deniz Ekici, PhD (University of Exeter) — part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series. Equivalent to a year of college-level Kurdish.

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

$9.99/month. Start today → https://www.languagecanvas.com/beginning-kurmanji-kurdish/

Tour Turkey with Mark — an American college student ordering food in Istanbul, shopping the bazaars, crossing the Bosphorus — and learn real Turkish along the way.

Intermediate Turkish is an interactive online course built around Mark's journey: 14 narrative video lessons with native speakers, plus tongue twisters, Turkish gestures, cultural expressions, and 18 grammar reference modules. Pause any video, click any word or sentence — hear it pronounced, see the meaning instantly.

Course by Jessica Tiregol, PhD (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton), from the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series. Equivalent to a full year of college Turkish.

Finished the basics? This is your next step. $9.99/month.
Continue your journey → https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/turkish/intermediate-turkish/

Already speak some Kazakh? Take it further.

Intermediate Kazakh covers five real-world units: Education, Government & Diplomacy, Natural Resources, Business & Agriculture, and Culture. Each unit pairs 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 — originally part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series. Equivalent to a year of college-level Kazakh.

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

$9.99/month. Continue your Kazakh today → https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/kazakh/intermediate-kazakh/

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Beginning Kazakh is an interactive online course: 20 lessons, 25 native-speaker videos, and 10,000 word & sentence audio clips. Built-in pronunciation recorder, audio flashcards, listening dictation, a searchable audio glossary, and downloadable MP3 podcasts for offline study. Equivalent to a full year of college Kazakh.

Course by Dr. Ablahat Ibrahim — Turkic linguistics, PhD from the University of Washington — part of the University of Arizona Critical Languages Series.

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

$9.99/month. Start today → https://www.languagecanvas.com/languages/kazakh/beginning-kazakh/

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