Learn Iban online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~979 hrs

Iban is spoken by about 2 million people.

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Malay, Indonesian and Minang. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
IbanAkutumudani
EnglishIwake upearly
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,000 sentences works like this.
2 millionspeakers
2,000real sentences
1,417patterns discovered
~979hours from English
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Real Iban sentences from the course

Begulai enggau kami.
Join us.
Dani!
Wake up!
Ampun ke aku.
Forgive me.
Aku gaga ati.
I am happy.
Aku ulih mandi.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Iban sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,417 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 979 hours of study. Read how it works.

Related languages you can also learn

MalayIndonesianMinangBetawiSundaneseMadureseJavaneseBatak Karo

Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.