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Learn Burmese live with a native teacher
Regular live classes in small groups. Ask questions, practice conversation, progress fast.
Live classes
You speak Burmese every week, with a native teacher
You book whichever slot suits you. 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
- Replay available the same evening, with no time limit
Live classes
Burmese live classes
Live classes every week, in small groups, at all three levels. The second beginner slot repeats the theme of the first: miss one, you still have the other.
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Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
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The platform
Progress in Burmese 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.
- 216 lessons across 42 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
The community
Join Targumi's Burmese community
Dedicated WhatsApp group, exchanges between learners, resource sharing. You're never alone in your learning journey.
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Full program
Your Burmese curriculum
Exactly what you'll find inside the platform: 42 modules, 216+ structured lessons, quizzes and exercises.
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Birman Débutant
🔤L'alphabet — မြန်မာအက္ခရာ
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👋Les salutations — နှုတ်ဆက်ခြင်း
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👨👩👧👦La famille — မိသားစု
- Membres de la famille , မိသားစုဝင်များ10 min
- Hiérarchie familiale , မိသားစု အဆင့်ဆင့်10 min
- Parler de sa famille , မိသားစုအကြောင်း10 min
- Relations et belle-famille , ပြေးစုံ10 min
- Révision famille , ပြန်လည်လေ့လာ: မိသားစု10 min
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🛒Le marché — ဈေး
- Au marché , ဈေးထဲမှာ10 min
- Fruits et légumes , အသီးနှင့် ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်10 min
- Marchander , ဈေးဆစ်10 min
- Vêtements et longyis , အဝတ်နှင့် လုံချည်10 min
- Révision marché , ပြန်လည်လေ့လာ: ဈေး10 min
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🍜La nourriture — အစားအသောက် (asāarsauk)
- La cuisine birmane , မြန်မာအစားအစာ10 min
- Le mohinga , မုန့်ဟင်းခါး10 min
- Laphet thoke , လက်ဖက်သုပ်10 min
- Le the birman , လက်ဖက်ရည်10 min
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🧭Direction — လမ်းညွှန် (lan-nyun)
- Yangon , ရန်ကုန်10 min
- Mandalay , မန္တလေး10 min
- Bagan , ပုဂံ10 min
- Train Yangon-Mandalay , ရထား10 min
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🍲Gastronomie — မြန်မာဟင်းလျာ
- Le mohinga au quotidien , မုန့်ဟင်းခါးနှင့်နေ့စဉ်10 min
- Le laphet thoke des ceremonies , လက်ဖက်သုပ်နှင့်ဓလေ့10 min
- Les nouilles shan , ရှမ်းခေါက်ဆွဲ10 min
- Commander et deguster , မှာယူခြင်းနှင့်မြည်းစမ်းခြင်း10 min
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👨👩👧👦Traditions familiales — မိသားစုဓလေ့ထုံးစံ
- Le htamane , ထမနဲ10 min
- L ordination de novice , ရှင်ပြု10 min
- La vie familiale birmane , မြန်မာ့မိသားစုဘဝ10 min
- Les noms et le calendrier birman , နာမည်နှင့်ပြက္ခဒိန်10 min
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✈️Voyager au Myanmar — မြန်မာပြည်ခရီးသွား
- Yangon la capitale economique , ရန်ကုန်မြို့10 min
- Mandalay la culturelle , မန္တလေးမြို့10 min
- Bagan la cite des temples , ပုဂံနယ်10 min
- Le lac Inle , အင်းလေးကန်10 min
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🌿La nature birmane — မြန်မာ့သဘာဝ
- L Irrawaddy , ဧရာဝတီမြစ်10 min
- La jungle et les elephants , တောနှင့်ဆင်10 min
- Les saisons et le climat , ရာသီနှင့်ရာသီဥတု10 min
- Les parcs naturels et la biodiversite , ဥယျာဉ်နှင့်ဇီဝမျိုးစုံ10 min
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🪷Culture birmane — မြန်မာ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှု
- Le bouddhisme theravada , ထေရဝါဒဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ10 min
- Le Thingyan , သင်္ကြန်ပွဲတော်10 min
- La pagode Shwedagon , ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား10 min
- Le longyi et les arts , လုံချည်နှင့်အနုပညာ10 min
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📱Le Myanmar connecte — မြန်မာ့ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်
- Le mobile au Myanmar , မိုဘိုင်း10 min
- Wave Money et KBZ Pay , ငွေလွှဲ10 min
- Les reseaux sociaux birmans , ဆိုရှယ်မီဒီယာ10 min
- L e-commerce et le quotidien numerique , အွန်လိုင်းဝယ်ယူခြင်း10 min
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⏰Le temps qui passe — အချိန်
- Dire l heure , ဘယ်အချိန်လဲ10 min
- Les jours de la semaine , တစ်ပတ်ရက်များ10 min
- Mois et saisons , လနှင့်ရာသီ10 min
- Hier, aujourd hui, demain , မနေ့က, ဒီနေ့, မနက်ဖြန်10 min
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🍴Au restaurant — စားသောက်ဆိုင်မှာ
- Commander un plat , အစားအသောက် မှာယူခြင်း10 min
- Les boissons , အဖျော်ယမကာ10 min
- Gouts et preferences , အရသာ10 min
- Payer l addition , ပိုက်ဆံ ပေးခြင်း10 min
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🏠A la maison — အိမ်မှာ
- Les pieces de la maison , အိမ်ခန်းများ10 min
- Le mobilier et objets , ပရိဘောဂ10 min
- Vivre en famille , မိသားစုနဲ့ နေထိုင်ခြင်း10 min
- Inviter chez soi , အိမ်ကို ဖိတ်ခြင်း10 min
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🩺Le corps et la sante — ခန္ဓာကိုယ်နှင့်ကျန်းမာရေး
- Les parties du corps , ခန္ဓာကိုယ်အစိတ်အပိုင်း10 min
- Etre malade , နာတယ်10 min
- Hygiene et soins , သန့်ရှင်းရေး10 min
- A la pharmacie , ဆေးဆိုင်10 min
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🚖Les transports — သယ်ယူပို့ဆောင်ရေး
- Moyens de transport , ယာဉ်အမျိုးအစား10 min
- Demander le chemin , လမ်းမေးခြင်း10 min
- Reserver un trajet , ခရီးစဉ် ဘွတ်ကင် ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း10 min
- En taxi a Yangon , တက္ကစီ စီးခြင်း10 min
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👕Les vetements — အဝတ်အစား
- Vetements de base , အဝတ်အစားများ10 min
- Faire du shopping , အဝတ်အစား ဝယ်ခြင်း10 min
- Couleurs et motifs , အရောင်နှင့်ပုံစံ10 min
- Vetements traditionnels , ရိုးရာဝတ်စုံ10 min
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💼Travail et metiers — အလုပ်နှင့်အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်း
- Les metiers courants , အလုပ်အကိုင်များ10 min
- Au bureau , ရုံးခန်းမှာ10 min
- Chercher un emploi , အလုပ်ရှာခြင်း10 min
- Argent et paiements , ပိုက်ဆံ10 min
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✈️Voyages et hotel — ခရီးနှင့်ဟိုတယ်
- A l aeroport , လေဆိပ်မှာ10 min
- Reserver une chambre , အခန်းမှာ10 min
- Demander son chemin , လမ်းမေး10 min
- Transports : taxi et train , တက္ကစီ၊ ရထား10 min
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🔤Script birman et premieres phrases
- L'ecriture birmane , Cercles et spirales12 min
- Mingalabar , Salutations birmanes10 min
- Bouddhisme et culture birmane12 min
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Birman Intermédiaire
✈️Voyages avances — ခရီးသွား
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💼Monde du travail — အလုပ်
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📰Medias et actualites — မီဒီယာနှင့် သတင်း
- Journaux et presse ecrite , သတင်းစာ15 min
- Radio et television , ရေဒီယိုနှင့် ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား15 min
- Reseaux sociaux , လူမှုကွန်ယက်15 min
- Fake news et pensee critique , သတင်းအတုနှင့် ဝေဖန်တွေးခေါ်မှု15 min
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🏛️Politique et societe — နိုင်ငံရေးနှင့် လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း
- Le gouvernement , အစိုးရ15 min
- Elections , ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ15 min
- Debats et opinions , ဆွေးနွေးငြင်းခုံခြင်း15 min
- Droits et citoyennete , အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် နိုင်ငံသား15 min
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💰Economie et finances — စီးပွားရေးနှင့် ငွေကြေး
- A la banque , ဘဏ်မှာ15 min
- Investir et epargner , ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံခြင်းနှင့် ငွေစု15 min
- Commerce et echanges , ကုန်သွယ်ရေး15 min
- Monnaie et change , ငွေကြေးနှင့် လဲလှယ်ခြင်း15 min
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🎓Education avancee — ပညာရေး
- L'universite , တက္ကသိုလ်15 min
- Recherche et these , သုတေသနနှင့် ကျမ်းစာတမ်း15 min
- Diplomes et qualifications , ဘွဲ့များနှင့် အရည်အချင်း15 min
- Bourses et etudes a l'etranger , ပညာတော်သင်နှင့် နိုင်ငံခြားပညာ15 min
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🎭Arts et litterature — အနုပညာနှင့် စာပေ
- Cinema birman , မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်15 min
- Musique birmane , မြန်မာ့ဂီတ15 min
- Litterature birmane , မြန်မာ့စာပေ15 min
- Expositions et galeries , ပြပွဲနှင့် ပြခန်း15 min
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🌍Environnement — ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်
- Climat et changement climatique , ရာသီဥတုနှင့် ရာသီဥတု ပြောင်းလဲမှု15 min
- Pollution et dechets , ညစ်ညမ်းမှုနှင့် အမှိုက်15 min
- Recyclage et solutions , ပြန်လည်အသုံးပြုခြင်းနှင့် ဖြေရှင်းချက်15 min
- Energie et avenir , စွမ်းအင်နှင့် အနာဂတ်15 min
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🔬Sciences et technologie — သိပ္ပံနှင့် နည်းပညာ
- Innovation et technologie , ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှု15 min
- Intelligence artificielle , ဉာဏ်ရည်တု15 min
- Espace et exploration , အာကာသနှင့် စူးစမ်းရှာဖွေရေး15 min
- Medecine et sante , ဆေးပညာနှင့် ကျန်းမာရေး15 min
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🌐Relations internationales — နိုင်ငံတကာ ဆက်ဆံရေး
- Diplomatie , သံတမန်ရေး15 min
- ONU et organisations , ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့် အဖွဲ့အစည်း15 min
- Migrations et diasporas , ရွှေ့ပြောင်းခြင်းနှင့် ပြည်ပရောက် မြန်မာ15 min
- Cooperation et aide , ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းနှင့် အကူအညီ15 min
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🧠Philosophie et pensee — ဒဿနိကနှင့် အတွေးအခေါ်
- Debattre et argumenter , ငြင်းခုံခြင်းနှင့် အကြောင်းပြခြင်း15 min
- Ethique et valeurs , ကျင့်ဝတ်နှင့် တန်ဖိုးထားမှု15 min
- Logique et raisonnement , ယုတ္တိနှင့် ကျိုးကြောင်းဆက်15 min
- Pensee critique et biais , ဝေဖန်တွေးခေါ်မှုနှင့် ဘက်လိုက်မှု15 min
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🚀Projet personnel — ကိုယ်ပိုင်စီမံကိန်း
- Entrepreneuriat , လုပ်ငန်းစတင်ခြင်း15 min
- Objectifs et planification , ရည်မှန်းချက်နှင့် စီမံချက်15 min
- Bilan et evaluation , သုံးသပ်ချက်နှင့် အကဲဖြတ်ခြင်း15 min
- L'avenir et les reves , အနာဂတ်နှင့် အိပ်မက်15 min
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📝Verbes et particules
- Verbes courants et particules verbales10 min
- Famille et relations8 min
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🛕Voyages et vie quotidienne
- Dans les pagodes et la ville10 min
- Nourriture birmane8 min
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Expression avancée
📜စာပေသမိုင်း — Littérature classique birmane
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📜Proverbes et sagesse birmane
- ရိုဟင်ဂျာဆိုင်ရာ , La question Rohingya20 min
- ကရင်လူမျိုး , Peuple Karen : histoire et résistance18 min
- ရှမ်းလူမျိုး , Peuple Shan et État Shan18 min
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📚စာပေခေတ်သစ် — Littérature contemporaine birmane
- မသီတာ , Médecin, écrivaine, militante18 min
- ပေမြင့် , Le réalisme social birman contemporain17 min
- မောင်သော်ကာ , La satire et l'humour résistant17 min
- ခင်ဟင်းယု , La voix féminine de la littérature birmane17 min
- ခေတ်သစ်ဝတ္ထု , Techniques du roman birman contemporain18 min
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📰သတင်းမီဒီယာ — Presse et médias birmans
- မြန်မာ့ သတင်းစာ သမိုင်း , Histoire de la presse birmane17 min
- ဧရာဝတီ မဂ္ဂဇင်း , Le journalisme d'exil emblématique17 min
- Frontier Myanmar , ဆန်းစစ်သောသတင်းမှတ်16 min
- Mizzima , ဒိုင်ယက်စပိုရာ မီဒီယာ၏ အခန်းကဏ္ဍ16 min
- သတင်းဘာသာ C1/C2 , Vocabulaire journalistique avancé18 min
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⚡အာဏာသိမ်း ၂၀၂၁ — Coup 2021, NUG, PDF
- အာဏာသိမ်း ၂၀၂၁ , Le coup d'État du 1er février20 min
- အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ , Le NUG18 min
- ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ , Le PDF18 min
- ပြည်သူလူထု ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး , Désobéissance civile et mouvements17 min
- စစ်ဥပဒေ , Loi martiale et droit sous la junte17 min
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💎စီးပွားရေး — Économie, ressources, embargo
- မြန်မာ စီးပွားရေး , Vue d'ensemble de l'économie birmane18 min
- မုဂဝ်ပတ္တမြား , Les rubis de Mogok17 min
- ကြက်ပြေ , Le jade et les mines de Hpakant17 min
- ဆန်ထွက်ကုန် , La filière riz, agriculture et alimentation16 min
- အထည်ချုပ်လုပ်ငန်း , L'industrie textile et la main-d'oeuvre16 min
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🎭အနုပညာ — Arts birmans traditionnels et contemporains
- မြန်မာ အနုပညာ , Introduction aux arts birmans17 min
- မဟာဂီတ , La grande tradition musicale birmane18 min
- ဇာတ်ပွဲ , Le théâtre traditionnel birman17 min
- မြန်မာ ကခုန် , La danse classique birmane16 min
- မြန်မာ ပန်းချီပညာ , Peinture et arts visuels birmans16 min
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They talk about us
Learners talk about their journey on Targumi.
The curriculum
What you'll learn in Burmese
A curriculum designed to get you speaking Burmese in the situations that actually matter to you.
Start for free- 01Circular Burmese script (34 consonants, phonetic reading)
- 02Conversational Burmese from Yangon and Mandalay
- 03Burmese tones: 4 distinctive tones to master
- 04Theravada Buddhism: vocabulary and practices
- 05Burmese cuisine: mohinga, laphet thoke, Shan dishes
- 06Burmese for NGOs, humanitarian work and the diaspora
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about learning Burmese
The Burmese script has 34 consonants, with vowels placed around them in four different positions (above, below, left, right). It is more complex than the Latin alphabet, but the phonetic logic is consistent once the symbols are memorised. Most learners read the basics within 4 to 6 weeks. The distinctive circular shapes also make the letters relatively memorable.
Burmese has four main tones: high, low, creaky (with a glide) and checked (short-stopped). It is less complex than Mandarin (4 tones) or Thai (5 tones), but tones completely change the meaning of words. With a native teacher correcting your tones from the very first lessons, the right reflexes gradually take root. Intensive oral practice is essential to master the tone system.
Myanmar is one of the last relatively untapped emerging economies in Southeast Asia. Before 2021, it was attracting significant investment in textiles, tourism and natural resources. The Burmese diaspora in Thailand (2-3 million migrant workers) is another active community. For NGOs, humanitarian workers and journalists covering the Burmese crisis, proficiency in Burmese is a rare and valuable professional asset.
Yes. The Burmese community in France is estimated at 8,000-12,000 people, mainly in Paris, and has grown after the 2021 military coup, with activists, intellectuals and artists seeking asylum in Europe. For immigration lawyers, social workers and healthcare professionals, even a few basics in Burmese can considerably ease communication.
Burmese is classified as a difficult language for Westerners by the US FSI (Category 3, around 1,100 hours). Plan on 14 to 18 months with regular lessons to reach a conversational B1. Tones, the circular script and the absence of shared vocabulary with Indo-European languages are the main challenges. But Burmese culture, Buddhism, meditation, pagodas, provides lasting motivation.
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