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Live classes

You speak Quechua every week, with a native teacher

You join whichever slot suits you, with nothing to book. The joining link arrives by email, and the session is recorded.

  • 4 slots this week, across all three levels
  • 2 to 5 students per class, all at your level
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A family language

Reconnect with Quechua

The language of your parents, your grandparents or your partner. The one you want to pass on to your children.

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Speaking the language of the country means reconnecting with its people.
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Now, at home, we speak Quechua.
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Your in-laws speak Quechua to you. Answer them in Quechua.
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Children who speak Quechua are the greatest cultural wealth you can bring to your family.
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Your grandparents’ Quechua should not end with them.
  • Finally understand what is said at the table, and answer back.
  • “Hi Mum, I speak Quechua!”

A language is passed down from generation to generation. Now it is your turn.

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The platform

Progress in Quechua between classes, at your own pace

Interactive lessons with native audio, vocabulary, dialogues and quizzes. Everything you need to reinforce your skills between live sessions.

The platform

Between classes, you move forward twenty minutes a day

Lessons follow one another in order, with no evening to set aside. Every word is recorded by a native speaker.

  • 179 lessons across 37 modules, from beginner to advanced
  • Native audio on every word, with a slow-down button
  • Your progress is kept, on phone and on computer alike
Audio

You hear the language as it is actually spoken

The recordings are made by native speakers, not by a synthetic voice. The slow-down button separates the sounds when it goes too fast.

  • Every sentence can be played and slowed down
  • The transcription and translation sit under the audio
  • You replay it as many times as you need, with no limit
Quizzes

Every module ends with a quiz, not with a ticked box

You are corrected on the spot, with the explanation. A failed quiz can be retaken, with no penalty and no record.

  • Immediate correction, with the right answer explained
  • An end-of-level test opens the next level
  • A level certificate at the end of the course
Level certificate

Your Quechua level, certified in your name

  • Issued once you have passed every lesson of a level: beginner, intermediate or advanced
  • Downloadable as a PDF and shareable on LinkedIn
  • A unique number, verifiable online on targumi.com
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Full program

Your Quechua curriculum

Exactly what you'll find inside the platform: 37 modules, 179+ structured lessons, quizzes and exercises.

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Beginner Quechua
👋The basics of Quechua
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🏔️Numbers and nature
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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Ayllu — Family
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🫀Ukhu — The body
  • Uma y Ñawi , Tête et yeux10 min
  • Simi y Sinqa , Bouche et nez10 min
  • Maki y Chaki , Main et pied10 min
  • Sunqu y Wiksa , Cœur et ventre10 min
  • Chukcha y Kiru , Cheveux et dents10 min
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🌽Mikhuna — Food
  • Papa , La pomme de terre10 min
  • Sara , Le maïs10 min
  • Aycha y Challwa , Viande et poisson10 min
  • T'anta y Ñukñu , Pain et lait10 min
  • Kuka , La feuille de coca10 min
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🥛Upyana — Drinks
  • Yaku , L'eau10 min
  • Aqha , La chicha10 min
  • Mati y Kuka mati , Infusions10 min
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🦙Uywakuna — Animals
  • Llama y Allpaqa , Lama et alpaga10 min
  • Alqu y Michi , Chien et chat10 min
  • Wallpa y Kawallu , Poule et cheval10 min
  • Pisqu y Kuntur , Oiseaux et condor10 min
  • Challwa y Quwi , Poisson et cobaye10 min
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🏠Wasi — The house
  • Wasi , La maison10 min
  • Punku y Wintana , Porte et fenêtre10 min
  • Hawapi y Ukhupi , Dedans et dehors10 min
  • Tiyana , Chaise et meubles10 min
  • Yachay wasi , L'école10 min
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🏙️Llaqta — The city
  • Llaqta , Ville et village10 min
  • Qhatu , Le marché10 min
  • Ñan , Le chemin10 min
  • Chakra y Urqu , Champ et montagne10 min
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🌈Llimphi — Colors
  • Puka y Yana , Rouge et noir10 min
  • Yuraq y Qillu , Blanc et jaune10 min
  • Q'umir y Anqas , Vert et bleu10 min
  • Sani y Q'illu , Violet et orange10 min
  • Llimphikuna , Toutes les couleurs10 min
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📅P'unchaykuna — Days and time
  • P'unchay y Tuta , Jour et nuit10 min
  • Inti y Killa , Soleil et lune10 min
  • Wata y Killakuna , Année et mois10 min
  • Kunan y Ñawpa , Maintenant et avant10 min
  • Tutamanta y Ch'isi , Matin et soir10 min
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🗣️Hatun ruwaykuna — Essential verbs
  • Kay , Être10 min
  • Riy , Aller10 min
  • Hamuy , Venir10 min
  • Mikhuy , Manger10 min
  • Upyay , Boire10 min
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🗨️Aswan ruwaykuna — More verbs
  • Rimay , Parler10 min
  • Yachay , Savoir10 min
  • Munay , Vouloir, aimer10 min
  • Ruway , Faire10 min
  • Llamk'ay , Travailler10 min
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❓Tapukuykuna — Questions
  • Pi y Ima , Qui et quoi10 min
  • May y Hayk'aq , Où et quand10 min
  • Imayna y Hayk'a , Comment et combien10 min
  • Imanaqtin , Pourquoi10 min
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✅Arí y Mana — Yes, no, evidentiality
  • Arí y Mana , Oui et non10 min
  • Suffixe -mi , Évidentialité directe10 min
  • Suffixe -si , Ouï-dire10 min
  • Suffixe -chá , Supposition10 min
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🔀Kapuq suffixes — Possessive suffixes
  • -y, -yki, -n , Mon, ton, son10 min
  • -nchik, -yku , Notre10 min
  • -ykichik, -nku , Votre, leur10 min
  • -yuq , Avoir, posséder10 min
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📝Imayna kasqan — Adjectives
  • Hatun y Uchuy , Grand et petit10 min
  • Sumaq y Allin , Beau et bon10 min
  • Musuq y Mawk'a , Nouveau et vieux10 min
  • Chiri y Q'uñi , Froid et chaud10 min
  • Llapan llimphikuna , Récapitulatif adjectifs10 min
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🔢Yupaykuna — Numbers 11-100
  • Chunka...niyuq , 11 à 1910 min
  • Iskay chunka , 20, 30, 40...10 min
  • Iskay chunka hukniyuq , 21, 22...10 min
  • Pachak , 10010 min
  • Waranqa , 100010 min
  • + 1 more
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🌦️Pacha — Weather and nature
  • Para , La pluie10 min
  • Rit'i y Wayra , Neige et vent10 min
  • Inti y Phuyu , Soleil et nuages10 min
  • Pacha , Le temps qui passe10 min
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👤Sutikuna — Personal pronouns
  • Ñuqa y Qam , Je et tu10 min
  • Ñuqanchik y Ñuqayku , Nous10 min
  • Qamkuna y Paykuna , Vous et eux10 min
  • Pronoms et possessifs , Récap10 min
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✉️Napaykuy — Advanced greetings
  • Allin p'unchay , Bonjour formel10 min
  • Sumaq hamusqayki , Bienvenue10 min
  • Allichu y Pampachayway , S'il vous plaît, pardon10 min
  • Salutation complète , Dialogue10 min
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🔣Case suffixes
  • -pi y -man , Dans, vers10 min
  • -manta y -wan , Depuis, avec10 min
  • -paq y -ta , Pour, accusatif10 min
  • Récap des suffixes , Construire une phrase10 min
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🦙Andes Culture
  • Tawantinsuyu , L'Empire Inca10 min
  • Pachamama y Apu , Mère Terre et Esprits10 min
  • Sumaq Kawsay , Bien Vivre10 min
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Advanced Inca wisdom
🌄Andean cosmology and literature
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✍️Modern Quechua poetry — Arguedas
  • Arguedas — The Writer Between Two Worlds14 min
  • Katatay — Reading and Analysis of the Poem16 min
  • Quechua Aspect — Progressive, Narrative Past, Future15 min
  • Contemporary Quechua Resistance Poetry13 min
  • Quechua Nominalizations — -q, -na, -sqa15 min
  • + 2 more
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📰Quechua press and media
  • Servindi — Indigenous Journalism in Quechua13 min
  • Ñuqanchik — Television in Quechua13 min
  • Indigenous Rights — In Quechua14 min
  • Willakuy Rimay — Writing a Quechua Report15 min
  • Radio in Quechua — Andean Oral Media12 min
  • + 2 more
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🏛️Inca Empire — Tawantinsuyu
  • Tawantinsuyu — The Four Regions of the Empire14 min
  • Pachacutec — The World Reformer14 min
  • Qosqo — The Inca Capital City13 min
  • Sapa Inca — Divine Power and Ritual14 min
  • Qhapaq Ñan — The Royal Inca Road13 min
  • + 2 more
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⚔️Conquest and resistance — Atawallpa and Manco Inca
  • Cajamarca 1532 — The Capture of Atahualpa14 min
  • Manco Inca — The Inca Resistance of Vilcabamba14 min
  • Colonial Shock — Cultural Contact in Quechua14 min
  • Guaman Poma — Andean Chronicler and Resistance15 min
  • Tupac Amaru II — The Great Rebellion of 178014 min
  • + 2 more
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🌎Official Andean bilingualism
  • Runasimi in Law — Official Status in Peru13 min
  • Kichwa Ecuador — Constitutional Language13 min
  • Bolivia — Quechua and Wiphala in the Constitution13 min
  • T'inkiy Simi — Contemporary Andean Code-Switching14 min
  • EIB — Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes13 min
  • + 2 more
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🌿Pachamama, ayni, ayllu — Andean worldview
  • Pachamama — The Andean Mother Earth13 min
  • Ayni — Andean Reciprocity13 min
  • Ayllu — The Andean Community Unit13 min
  • Sumaq Kawsay — Philosophy of Good Living14 min
  • Inti, Killa, Illapa — The Great Andean Deities13 min
  • + 1 more
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🌾Andean sciences — terraces, quinoa, llamas
  • Andenes — Inca Agricultural Terraces13 min
  • Kinwa — Quinoa, the Mother Grain of the Andes13 min
  • Llama, Alpaca, Vicuña — Andean Camelids13 min
  • Qocha — Water Management in the Inca Andes13 min
  • Ch'uño, Khipu — Andean Technology and Memory14 min
  • + 2 more
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🎵Andean music — huayno, sicus, harawi
  • Takiy — Music as Andean Cosmic Language13 min
  • Wayno — The Quintessential Andean Musical Genre13 min
  • Siku — Andean Pan Flutes (Sicus)13 min
  • Harawi — Andean Lyrical Poetry14 min
  • Tushuy — Andean Dance and Its Meanings13 min
  • + 2 more
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🔬Comparative Quechua/Aymara linguistics
  • Agglutination — Advanced Quechua Morphology15 min
  • Evidentiality — The Quechua System15 min
  • Aymara — Andean Cousin Language14 min
  • Simi T'inkuy — Language Contacts and Borrowings14 min
  • Rimay Kichkay — Complex Quechua Syntax15 min
  • + 1 more
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✍️Formal registers and creative writing
  • Hatun Rimay — Formal Registers of Quechua14 min
  • Simiruray Taki — Contemporary Quechua Poetry14 min
  • Willakuy — Writing Narrative Prose in Quechua14 min
  • Kallpa Rimay — Andean Rhetoric14 min
  • Atelier Qillqay — Creating in Quechua C216 min
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🏆C2 synthesis — Runasimi mastered
  • Yachay Tinkuy — C1 Structures Review16 min
  • C2 Yachay — Mastery of C2 Structures16 min
  • Runasimi Mundo — Quechua in the Contemporary World14 min
  • Chiqaq Simi — C2 Production Self-Assessment18 min
  • Tukuy Yachay — Full Advanced Course Review16 min
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The curriculum

What you'll learn in Quechua

A curriculum designed to get you speaking Quechua in the situations that actually matter to you.

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  1. 01
    Cusco Quechua: the reference dialect for Machu Picchu and Cusco
  2. 02
    Agglutinative grammar: logical suffixes, no articles, no gender
  3. 03
    Quechua for responsible tourism in Peru and Bolivia
  4. 04
    Inca culture: Pachamama, Inti, Andean cosmovision
  5. 05
    Quechua for working with indigenous Andean communities
  6. 06
    Connections with Aymara and other Andean languages
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about learning Quechua

Quechua is agglutinative, you add suffixes to a root word to change meaning and grammatical function. There is no grammatical gender, no definite articles, and conjugation is regular. What surprises learners: the word order (SOV, subject-object-verb) and the logic of suffixes. With a native teacher who explains the logic, many learners find the grammar more intuitive than they feared.
Cusco Quechua (from Cusco, Peru) is the most widely taught and documented, it's the academic reference dialect, the one used in Peruvian school curricula and the closest to the classical Quechua of the Incas. If your goal is Bolivia, Bolivian Quechua (from Cochabamba) is preferable. The two are about 80% mutually intelligible. Most of our teachers come from Cusco and Peru.
Absolutely. In the regions of Cusco, Puno, Ayacucho and the Andes in general, many elderly people and rural communities speak more Quechua than Spanish. Even a few phrases of Quechua completely transform the welcome you receive. In Pisac, Chinchero or on Andean markets, speaking Quechua gives you access to a dimension of Peruvian culture that's totally inaccessible to the average tourist.
No, quite the opposite of what people often believe. Quechua is recognized as a co-official language in Peru (alongside Spanish) and Bolivia. Revitalization programs exist at the school level. In Peru, more than 3.7 million people speak it as a native language. The younger Andean generation is showing renewed interest in its linguistic roots. There's even rap and contemporary music in Quechua.
Yes, it's one of the main motivations of our learners. NGOs, cooperation programs, anthropology researchers and social workers learn Quechua to work with Andean communities in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Mastering Quechua is a decisive advantage for any development project in the Andes.
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“writing my thesis on andean communities. being able to use quechua in the field in peru last june completely changed the dynamic with the families. they invited me into their homes for meals”

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“my grandparents are Peruvian and grew up speaking Quechua between themselves. I wanted to understand what they'd say. teacher walked me through the suffix logic — it's a wildly structured language.”

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“Been on Targumi for 3 months. The small group format is exactly what I needed. My teacher takes time to correct accent, it's precious. Made more progress in 3 months than in 2 years of regular apps.”

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“What sold me is you actually speak from class one. No 10 hours of theory before opening your mouth. And the platform between classes is well-built, I revise on the morning commute.”

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“Honestly I had doubts at first because I'd tried plenty of methods without sticking. This is different, the teacher knows their stuff, adapts to your level, and we have fun on top of it. 6 months in and still motivated.”

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