Researching Quechua Cultures?
Feel more connection to local people in the field. Improve your Quechua to strengthen your relationships and build greater trust with the local communities.
Living and working in the Andes?
Speak the local language to connect with rural communities and campesino or urban grassroots organizations.
Learn Quechua to understand the context and feel at ease in participatory workshops — whether in the rural Altiplano or in the valleys and lowlands.
Travelling through the Andes?
Make new friends and share experiences with the locals as you trek past llamas in the South American highlands. Gain the confidence to venture off the beaten track in more remote areas of the Cordillera Real.
Take our survival Quechua course and learn to ask the way home.
Combine Quechua with Spanish
Prepare yourself for other areas of Latin America by combining Quechua lessons with Spanish classes.
About Quechua
Quechua is spoken by 10 million people in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador*.
The language belongs to the Quechuan group of indigenous languages.
Quechua (and Aymara) are unusual languages, where the future is seen as being behind the speaker and the past in front.
* Avatar Languages teaches the dialect for Bolivia and Peru