Learn Q'eqchi' online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~958 hrs

Q'eqchi' is spoken by about 1 million people. Guatemala and Belize. One of the few Mayan languages still growing in absolute numbers.

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Nuer, French (Canada) and Esperanto. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
Q'eqchi'Ninwakliikeqla
EnglishI wakeupearly
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.
1 millionspeakers
2,000real sentences
1,290patterns discovered
~958hours from English
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Real Q'eqchi' sentences from the course

Chex’ok qik’in.
Join us.
Waklil!
Wake up!
Chekuy inmaak.
Forgive me.
Sa inch’ool.
I am happy.
Naru ninb’atz’unk.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Q'eqchi' 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, 1,290 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 958 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Q'eqchi' from your own language

Most apps only teach Q'eqchi' 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:

EnglishFrench

Related languages you can also learn

NuerFrench (Canada)EsperantoFijianGermanPortuguese (Brazil)Occitan (Languedocian)Catalan

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