Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese
Speak immediately in everyday European and Hong Kong settings using parallel phrases. Master essential survival dialogues, polite cues, and orders across three distinct languages with feminine-anchored grammar and tonal clarity.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Survival Basics on the Street and At the Counter and the Practice Path. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese
- In Cantonese ('nei5 hou2'), Italian ('ciao'), and Spain Spanish ('hola'), initiating contact with a friendly greeting sets the social stage before asking for something
- Jumping straight into a question or demand without an initial greeting can come across as abrupt or rude in all three cultures
- Cantonese splits 'thank you' into two distinct categories: 'm4 goi1' for everyday services or favors, and 'do1 ze6' for receiving material gifts or monetary tips
- Spanish ('gracias') and Italian ('grazie') use a single broad word for gratitude across both services and gifts
- In Spain, 'vale' is the standard conversational marker for 'OK', agreement, and acknowledgement
- It functions the same way as Italian 'va bene' and natural Cantonese 'hou2 aa3' to signal routine assent
- Expressing confusion using phrases like 'non ho capito', 'no lo entiendo', and 'ngo5 m4 ming4' signals that you want to communicate but need a slower, simpler pace
- Native speakers typically respond to these phrases by resetting their speed and clarifying rather than ending the exchange
- 'Un momento' (identical in Italian and Spanish) politely asks the listener to wait a beat while you process or gather words
- Cantonese 'dang2 zik1-zan6' serves the same purpose, keeping rapport warm while taking a brief pause
- Parting phrases like 'arrivederci' or apologies like 'perdón' do not signal a pause in the same way
- Italian and Spanish put the question word ('Dov'è' / '¿Dónde está') at the start and the target location at the end
- Cantonese puts the location first, followed by the location marker and question phrase 'hai2 bin1-dou6'
- Translating Romance word order literally into Cantonese produces awkward phrasing because Cantonese establishes the topic before asking where it is
- 'Gei2 do1 cin2?' (幾多錢？) literally means 'how much money?' and is the standard way to ask the price in Cantonese street retail
- Italian uses 'Quanto costa?' and Spain Spanish uses '¿Cuánto cuesta?' to accomplish the exact same everyday retail check
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
You walk straight up to a counter in Rome or Hong Kong and blurt out your question. How does that usually feel to the clerk?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese takes you
- 1
Survival Basics on the Street
- First Contact: Greetings, Courtesy, and Buying Time
- Wayfinding, Pricing, and Getting Ready
- 2
At the Counter and the Practice Path
- Café Orders: Thirst, Hunger, and the Bill
- The Trilingual Recall Engine
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese is taught in the Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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