Drops: Learn Cantonese Chinese

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4.5
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About this app

What if šŸ‡­šŸ‡° Cantonese Chinese vocabulary learning would be a crazy fun game instead of boring memorisation drills? Drops makes language learning an effortless fun. Practical vocabulary is bound to your memories through beautiful graphics and quick mini-games.
The crazy part? You have only 5 mins per day. Might sound insane but works like charm! :)
These are the ingredients of the secret sauce:
šŸ‘€ 100% illustrated: Pictures directly carry the meaning - you don’t have to use your native language at all! No intermediary. Faster, more effective and of course more fun! :)
šŸŽ 5 min sessions: limiting practice time sounds crazy but it it makes it incredibly addictive - which is cool thing for learning. The barrier of entry is close to zero so you can’t have any excuses: you’ll have 5 minutes even on the busiest day!
šŸ•¹ Effortless play: We know why games are fun and addictive and distilled the essence into Drops. The result is a truly immersive experience but it’s not waste of your time while you play because you build a valuable knowledge.
⚔Qucik: Keyboard typing is painfully slow. Welcome rapid swipes and taps! Trust us, you’ll need those extra seconds during the quick learning session ;)
šŸŽÆ Vocabulary only: Zero grammar, just handpicked practical words. That’s our focus and we do it extremely well. The app teaches the Korean ā€œalphabetā€ Hangul (hangoul) too!
šŸ’Forge a habit: Drops wants to make you language learning addict. Effectiveness is nothing without a well established habit. We help you build one!
We are extremely proud of our lovely word pronunciations by seasoned voice talents!
Drops is free for casual learners: more than 1700 words in 99 topics are all available for everyone. Hardcore language learners can subscribe for premium to progress faster with unlimited learning time. Subscriptions start from $2.99 / month.

šŸŒ Our goal is to empower people of the world via language knowledge by providing a special tool that utilizes the universal language we all speak: pictures.


p.s.: be careful, this app really can get you addicted to to language learning.

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šŸ˜ If you love Drops as much as we enjoyed building it, please leave us a review! :)

Questions? Contact us at sup@languagedrops.com
Updated on
Apr 13, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.5
2.3K reviews
A Google user
November 10, 2018
+ve: First couple of sessions seemed a brilliantly simple way of learning vocabulary. -ve: I expected new topics to keep bringing up already learned words so I didn't forget them. They don't seem to. This seems (a) essential and (b) easy to fix. No explanation of rising/falling tones etc. In Cantonese. Just written as numbers as if beginners were expected to know about them. "No grammar" is fine but what about when I want to build a sentence?
6 people found this review helpful
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Drops Languages
November 11, 2018
Hi, Thanks so much for your feedback. We will discuss it with the team and see what we can do :) Thanks again for your feedback and we are looking forward to rolling out more features for you soon.
R
February 16, 2023
A fun interface. But there are problems. As of Feb 2023, the app sometimes and inconsistently teaches MANDARIN Chinese instead of CANTONESE! The app update at around 29 May 2020 was great, but got worse with the 10 June 2020 update. My family (who are fluent) tell me that some pronunciation is also incorrect - some voice actors speaking do not sound native Cantonese. The 'Simply' and 'Nemo' apps are better for Cantonese. The app also freezes, but customer service have been unable to fix it.
102 people found this review helpful
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Robin Kay
June 14, 2021
I was enjoying using Drops to increase my Cantonese vocabulary. The system is quite good, although I spotted quite a few mistakes in the material even before the latest problems. The latest update, however, has replaced a lot of the words with "formal" Chinese (written Mandarin). Highly annoying! In fact, ultimately, if you can't trust the quality of the material then it's more harm than help.
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What’s new

This update has squashed some bugs to make learning easier. Have fun learning languages!