Learn Tahitian online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~965 hrs

Tahitian is spoken by about 118,000 people.

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

one sentence from the course
TahitianEfaahorooiaite pereoo uira
EnglishShewilltakethe bus
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.
118,000speakers
2,000real sentences
1,274patterns discovered
~965hours from English
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Real Tahitian sentences from the course

A amui mai ia matou.
Join us.
Tūtū!
Wake up!
A faaore mai na ia'u.
Forgive me.
Te oaoa nei au.
I am happy.
E nehenehe ta'u e au'a.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Tahitian 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, 1,274 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 965 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Tahitian from your own language

Most apps only teach Tahitian 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:

EnglishPortuguese (Brazil)

Related languages you can also learn

HawaiianMāoriSpanishSicilianTachelhitCebuanoKapampanganIlocano

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