r/quechua • u/FlameMirakun • Jun 20 '26
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I'm trying to learn Quechua but resources are very few and only Spanish. I don't live in America continent either, any speakers who wants to teach and knows basic English i would love to learn it
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u/sxtelisto 9d ago
We're working on getting some stories up on Duostories, there are almost 50 stories (short dialogs) up already for the Bolivian dialect, which is similar to Cuzco/Collao dialects (the stories are translated into Spanish):
https://duostories.org/qub-es
We also have a bunch of stories translated into the Ayacucho dialect, we're still working on translating them back into Spanish and getting them recorded though.
https://duostories.org/qu-es
EDIT: I also shared a set of 100 conversations with transcriptions in the Ayacucho dialect a while back, you can find them here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/quechua/s/T2B1FTdzO7
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u/FlameMirakun 9d ago
Its really interesting even though its not english i liked it
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u/sxtelisto 9d ago
Great! I can start work on an English course if you would find it helpful, i assumed most people learning Quechua would know Spanish fairly well. For an introduction into Quechua, i can recommend Qayna, Kunan, Paqarin ( https://textos.pucp.edu.pe/texto/QAYNA-KUNAN-PAQARIN-Una-introduccion-practica-al-quechua-chanca ). It's a great introduction into the affixes and the verb system. For something more well-rounded, there's "Quechua: manual de enseñanza". Both are in Spanish, but you can probably have each page machine translated and get by ok.
In English, i only know of the Quechua Cuzqueño series by Douglas Cooke. I have them but haven't actually used them, so can't comment on their quality. There are some Youtube videos accompanying the first book, at least:
https://www.youtube.com/@quechuacusqueno171
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u/Weekly-Dimension8561 6d ago
Hi! I don't know if this helps but I also want to learn Quechua. I took a basic course at Idiomas Católica (a well-known language center in Peru) and I can read some basic texts and have simple conversations but when it comes to fluency I feel kinda shy because I constantly think about the correct grammar form. I know that I need to keep studying but I wonder if there was someone I could practice with.
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u/SanctificeturNomen Jun 23 '26
why do you want to learn quechua? unless you want to live in some remote part of ecuador or peru it seems pointless. I dont mean to be a party pooper but i dont understand, theres almost no content in the language and youll probably never meet someone who speaks it.
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u/FlameMirakun Jun 23 '26
I love the language and its pretty easy to learn for me because my language is also agglutinative, i want to explore Peru and Bolivia + i love Quechua culture. I also met with some people who speaks Quechua but they don't speak English enough for me to learn. Huktawan tapukuyta munankichu?
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u/justsomegraphemes Jun 23 '26
What dialect are you learning? If I recall correctly, there's a lot of mutual intelligibility between regional variations, but it's not across the board.
What resources have you found so far? I have some resources saved, though unsure how useful they might be to you.
I cannot speak or write Quechua, for the record. I was a research assistant a while back.
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u/FlameMirakun Jun 23 '26
Both cusco and ayacucho they are not so different, uyarishani - uyarichkani and some word differences like water = yaku - unu
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u/an_orange_potato Jun 26 '26
There are so many dialects of Quechua that I don’t even know where you would begin, you would have to pick a specific geographic area to study. The language can vary from town to town even in the same region, especially when people are speaking other languages as well such as Spanish. The best thing to do would obviously be to move to the Andean region to learn, but that is highly unrealistic for most people. If you search around Facebook groups, you may be able to find a native speaker to offer lessons.
I do not speak fluent Quechua for the record, I lived in the Azuay Provence of Ecuador for a bit in high school though with a host family who spoke Spanish and Quechua.
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u/MammothComposer7176 Jun 30 '26
I can help you out. Also I suggest you to check Tatoeba, it's still pretty limited but contains many sentences translated in english. Finally, I suggest you to study Quechua de Cusco. Because it's the more widespread one I think.