The Get Speaking™ Cantonese Course

From Zero to Cantonese speaking Hero: A course designed to get you speaking

Learn to sound like an actor in a Hong Kong movie and wow your Cantonese-speaking friends and family.

If you're starting out learning Cantonese, you'll get started on the right foot and develop good, clear speech.

You can go at your own pace—you get lifetime access to the content!

This isn't your typical beginner's course.

This is listen and repeat.

Build muscle memory and intuition.

Master basic Cantonese grammar and speak with confidence!

Your daily training program will bury the basic grammar into your mind—if you put in the work!

Your live Q&A sessions are with Dr. Ash (PhD in Chinese!) and Cherry!

What other learners are saying about the Get Speaking method:

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“An entirely new approach to learning new language patterns and structures while developing speaking skills to a degree I would not have believed possible for a learner of my age, with as full a daily schedule as I have. These last two months have brought about nothing short of a revolution in my language learning.”

- Rick (Taiwan)

“I started this course by being very uncomfortable just by trying to pronounce very basic single words. The contents and scheduling are really optimum to smoothly make quick progress towards full sentences. My daily time management is always very constrained. This course allows me to easily practice daily with high efficiency with the very little free time I can find every day. If you want to be able to make progress despite your very busy life, this course is made for you.”

- Pascal (Singapore)

“Through continuous repetition, the course has helped me to better understand what I am hearing and to produce the correct sounds when I speak. The course also gently takes you from very simple grammar and vocabulary to more complex sentences. Together with graded readers, this course has made the largest contribution to my improvement in speaking Chinese.”

- Ricardo (Germany)

What is “Get Speaking?”

In this course, you’ll learn to speak Cantonese by listening and repeating, thereby building your intuition. The sentences in the course embody the grammar needed for basic Cantonese, and the most common 300 words.

After completing this course, you should be able to speak basic Cantonese correctly because it feels correct. You’ll have an intuitive grasp for the grammar. Grammar explanations will also be provided, but only after you’ve completed the audio lessons and repetition drills for those grammar points, making the explanations much easier to understand.

You can also choose to not do the grammar lessons, and rely solely on your intuition (which comes from having listened to and repeated native speaker speech). Having said that, knowing the grammar explanations will help with test taking.

What you get when you join

Guided Speaking Drills

Step-by-step training with clear explanations and targeted practice that builds real, lasting skill.

Chorusing & Shadowing Training

Learn Outlier’s core techniques for reshaping accent and developing natural-sounding speech. You’ll practice with high-quality native audio designed for fast improvement.

Tone and Rhythm Mastery

Understand how Cantonese tones really work — including contour differences, entering tones, tone categories — and how to train them until they’re automatic.

Regular Q&A sessions

Live Q&A sessions with our language experts, Dr. Ash (PhD in Chinese!) and Cherry Chan!

Community Support

You’ll join a supportive group of learners working toward the same goal — clear, natural Cantonese. Ask questions, compare notes, and get help when you need it.

Lifetime Access

Go through the material as many times as you like. Your access never expires.

Course Highlights

Learn basic grammar and the most common 300 words experientially by doing the actual talking for:

• Greetings & Introductions
• Talking about basic motion (left, right, up, down, front, behind, toward, away from)
• Expressing location (on, off, on top of, under, to the side of)
• Discussing completed actions, actions experienced in the past, change of state, duration
• Describing states of being (happy, sad, cold, hot, etc.)
• How to ask and answer basic questions (who, what, when, where, how)
• Giving commands
• Adding emotion to your sentences
• Comparison

Plus, live Q&A sessions, and a choice of study maps depending on how aggressive you want to be with your study.

Who is it for?

Beginners who want to start with clean speech

The earlier you speak the right way, the easier Cantonese becomes.

Intermediate learners stuck with speaking issues

If you’ve studied before but still struggle with tones, clarity, or rhythm, this program will help your progress.

Heritage or non-native speakers

Whether you’re learning for work, family, culture, or personal interest, mastering proper speech makes everything else easier.

Get Speaking Cantonese

Coming in June 2026. Sign up now and save!

Taught by Cherry and Dr. Ash, this course will get you started on your Cantonese learning journey on the right foot.

100% risk free - 30 day money back guarantee (extended to 30 days after the start date)

Here's what you get:

24 Audio/Video Lessons
All of the basic syntax of Cantonese
Q&A Sessions with Cherry & Dr. Ash
Male + female voice actors from Hong Kong

Full price: $497

Early Bird Price: Just $297

About this course

This course will consist of audio only lessons, audio repetition drills, and video + pdf explanations for grammar points, as well as live Q&A sessions (though if you can't make it to the live sessions, you can email us your questions, and watch the recordings later). A mid-term and final exam will be given, and a passing score at the end earns you a Certificate of Completion, which may serve as fulfilment of prerequisites for future courses!

The sentences covered in the course were chosen to both teach you the most common 300 words in Cantonese, but to also to give you experience with basic Cantonese grammar—roughly speaking, the grammar covered in the first HSK exam.

Before you start the course, you'll get several videos explaining the theory behind the course, how to do the course, and how to get the most out of it. There will be several review schedules available and you can choose one that is a comfortable speed for you.

In each lesson, you’ll have a 10 to 15 minute audio recording that you will need to listen to several times, and later review. They start off with simple sentences, and build upon them in small increments. Listening to and repeating to the sentences in these lessons will teach you words, grammar, syntax, word order, etc. experientially, like doing yoga poses or swinging a golf club. The lesson will also have a repetition drill audio file. These are designed to give you more exposure to the words, so that you can both hone your pronunciation and further build up your internal database of correct sentences. We call this intuition building, because the more you go over your repetition drills, the better your intuition for Cantonese sentences will be. Next, are the grammar explanation videos. These will focus on one or two grammar points, and will explain them simply, how they relate to the meaning you want to express, and using examples. They will add head knowledge to the experiential knowledge you will have already acquired from the audio lessons and repetition drills.

with your coaches...

Cherry Chan

Cherry Cecilia Chan is a passionate language enthusiast from Hong Kong. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and French, she graduated from Baptist University in European Studies and later pursued her Master's degree in Dijon, Burgundy. She has two decades of experience in language learning and education, including also learning Italian during her internship and picking up some Brazilian Portuguese during the Covid quarantine. Cherry is dedicated to helping learners embrace her mother tongue (Cantonese) and explore the beauty of this language. She welcomes everyone to join in on this exciting journey to language mastery.

Dr. Ash Henson, MSc

To say that Ash is a language enthusiast is an understatement. He speaks Dutch, Mandarin, Cantonese and German, all in varying states of decay. In addition to these, he has learned to some level or another another 7 languages and is currently working on Japanese and Thai. He sees language learning as a chance to experiment. The goal is to find a better way (either getting the same result in a way that takes less time, or getting a better result). And he’s been at it for 30 years! He got his Ph.D. in Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University in paleography and historical linguistics. He was also in the Ph.D. program for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language for six years.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I access the course?

Mobile, desktop, laptop, tablet...the course is super user-friendly and you'll be able to log on from anywhere!

Do I need to know any Cantonese? What level is this for?

The course is beginner-friendly and is also extremely helpful for higher-level learners who never received formal speech training or are struggling with speaking.

If you're a beginner, you'll get started on the right foot and develop good, clear speech from the beginning.

How long does the course take to complete?

Each lesson will take about an hour to listen to in its entirety, but you'll also need to spend a few hours doing your repetition drills for each lesson. Given 24 lessons and lots of repetition, expect to spend around 100 hours or more to get the full benefit of the course.

How much time will it require per lesson?

It really depends on how much review you do. We highly recommend spending at least 20 min per day reviewing with the repetition drills and audio lessons. A little bit every day is much better than a lot once a week.

So, at a minimum, 20 min per day on old material, and 20 min per day on new material. Scheduling "review weeks" (where you just review, and don't learn any new material) is a good way to get caught up on reviewing. You should spend a minimum of 3-5 hours per week between new material and reviewing. Of course, a more aggressive review schedule could bring that up close to 10 hours per week, or even more. It depends on your goals! We can help you figure out a good study/review schedule—just ask!

We'll also do occasional live 45 minute Q&A session on Zoom, so you can pop in and ask questions if you'd like. There is also a discussion forum, so if you can't make it to the office hours, you can still get your questions answered. You can also watch the replays of the Q&A sessions.

What time will the live Q&A sessions be?

We do the Q&A sessions at different times to try to accommodate people in different time zones as much as possible. You'll get notified in advance, and we usually offer two different time slots each time we do a Q&A session, so you can choose whichever one works best for you.

How long will I have access to the course?

Forever. Once you enroll, you get lifetime access to all materials, audio, subtitles, and recordings.

What exactly does "lifetime access" mean?

In practical terms, it means the course materials will be available online for as long as Outlier is in business. If we do ever go out of business or otherwise need to remove the course for any reason, we'll make the material available for you to download for a period of at least 6 months.

Will there be assignments or homework?

Assignments will be listening to the audio lessons, doing the repetition drills, and watching the grammar explanation videos. This is where the learning happens.

What if I decide the course isn't for me?

All of our products come with a 30-day money back guarantee. If you are unsatisfied with it for any reason, reach out to me at any point within 30 days (after purchase or after the course start date—whichever is later) and I'll issue a full refund.

Can we collaborate with other students or form study groups?

Definitely! Our live courses usually have a few hundred students enrolled, so there should be plenty of students of all backgrounds and interests in this course too. Working together and coming up with better ways to study with other people is definitely a good thing. However, for your own learning, you have to do the legwork on your own!

We'll also have a private online community where you can work together, ask questions, share notes, etc.

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We believe in the quality of our products and are committed to your satisfaction. That’s why we offer a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee on all purchases. If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, simply contact us within 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked.