Learn Mam online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~951 hrs

Mam is spoken by about 610,000 people.

On our measured language map, its closest relative is Q'eqchi'. If you speak it, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
MamAtzunnjayelu
EnglishThisismy house
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.
610,000speakers
2,000real sentences
841patterns discovered
~951hours from English
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Real Mam sentences from the course

Tz'okxa quk'ile.
Join us.
K'isil!
Wake up!
Kynajsankuya wile.
Forgive me.
In chin tzalaje.
I am happy.
Nb'ant nb'ete.
I can swim.
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How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Mam 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, 841 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 951 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Mam from your own language

Most apps only teach Mam through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

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Q'eqchi'

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