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The original was posted on /r/cantonese by /u/Southern_Ad9423 on 2025-02-03 17:12:11+00:00.

Hey everyone!

I’m currently developing a Cantonese reading app as a personal project and would love to get some first users and initial feedback! (You can check it out here: www.hauyulearn.com)

Background

As an illiterate learner of Cantonese with the goal of conversational fluency, I relied on an extensive set of unwieldy tools to make things like podcast transcripts/youtube subtitles “learnable.” I would paste text into a characters-to-jyutping converter, copy-and-paste its ugly output into a google doc, tirelessly throw characters I couldn’t read into google to hunt down definitions, annotate my google doc with those definitions, and, finally, I’d add new words/phrases to my running flashcard deck. Exhausting.

I created Hauyu to streamline this process in a single interface, helping learners engage with Cantonese content with less frustration.

What it offers

Convert any Cantonese text into an interactive “lesson” with:

• Dynamic display of characters, jyutping, or both.
• Built-in dictionary for effortless word look-up (just click-and-drag over a word or phrase).
• Built-in AI translator for phrases or terms without definitions.
• Integrated system for saving vocabulary and lessons.

Imagine a characters-to-jyutping converter on steroids (with even more cool features on the way)

Help me make it better!

The app is still in its early stages, and your feedback will be super helpful for shaping its future. Give it a try (www.hauyulearn.com or jump right into a Demo) and let me know what you think in the comments. Positive and negative feedback both welcome!

I’d love to know: What works well? What doesn’t? Would you use this tool regularly? What additional feature(s)/function(s) would make this an awesome product?