Quechua language learning links

The amount of Quechua material online is quite miniscule. I hope to gather all the relevant resources with free information here on this page. Please feel free to email me with other useful links (as long as they are free and contain a decent amount of content).

General learning resources

• NYU Online Language Unit – [Cuzco][3-vowel] – Five lessons from NYU’s CLACS. Covers basic grammar and vocabulary. Includes PDFs. High quality!
• Rimasun: Quechua Language Podcasts – [Cuzco] – Produced by NYC’s CLACS. A free audio series featuring conversations and interviews entirely in the Quechua and Kichwa languages.
• Quechua Simplified Language Course – [3-vowel][Cuzco] – An 8 lesson course covering basic Quechua grammar.
• Andes.org – [5-vowel] [Peru] – Grammar lessons, vocab lists, proverbs, poetry, and idioms.
• Kechwa at University of Kansas – [Ecuador] – Stories with audio recordings and transcripts, mp3 recordings of words, a few songs and large Spanish/English/Kechwa dictionary available for download.
• Curso de Quechua – [Cuzco][3-vowel][Español] – El Curso consta de 12 capítulos, los cuales se irán agregado progresivamente, asi como los archivos de audio (en formato WAV y RA).
• Quechua Language Homepage – [5-vowel][Bolivia] – Intro lessons in Bolivian Quechua with vocabulary
• Runasimi Kuchu – Digital textbooks, linguistic information, and other documents.
• ¡Aprendamos Quechua! – [3-vowel][Español] – Blog with many lessons and exercises (in Spanish). Good content, however the blog format makes it impossible to browse.

Quechua Videos

• Live Jaime’s Learn Quechua – Over 150 short lessons on Quechua: grammar, suffixes, and vocabulary.
• Dina’s Quechua es Nuestra Lingua – [5-vowel][Cuzco] – This user’s profile has introductory videos on the alphabet, numbers, colors, and a few dialogues. Good quality!
• Cosmovision Video Lessons Part 1, Part 2, PDF – [5-vowel] – Great quality recordings of the, unfortunately, in the 5 vowel alphabet. Still a fantastic source for pronuciation.
• Inka Quechua Technical – [5-vowel] – Quite a few videos from basic to intermediate topics as well as idioms. Poor production quality.

Textbooks

• Spoken Cuzco Quechua Vol 1 Vol 2 – [3-vowel][PDF] – A 1967 textbook from Cornell. By Sola, Donald; et al.
• Spoken Ayacucho Quechua Vol 1 Vol 2 – [3-vowel][PDF] – A 1963 textbook from Cornell. By Sola, Donald; et al.
• Ecuadorian Quechua Basic Course Vol 1 Vol 2 – [3-vowel][PDF] – A 1971 textbook from BYU. By Otto, Clarence; et al
• Spoken Cochabamba Quechua Vol 1 Vol 2 – [3-vowel][PDF] – A 1964 textbook from Cornell. By Sola, Donald; et al.

Quechua language information

• Fun facts to know and tell about Quechua – interesting facts about Quechua; most links are broken.
• Runa Simi.de – Dictionary file, texts, map of dialects, phonetics map across dialects
• University of Cambridge – Recordings, photos, maps, FAQs interesting facts about the language, origins, history, and dialects.

Online dictionaries

• Cosmovision Runasimi – Español-Quechua – interactive
• Katari – Español-Quechua y Aymara – interactive
• Diccionario AML – Español-Quechua – 2nd edition 2005 – book
• Runasimpi – Many dictionaries for download (PDF, MSWORD, OpenOffice), also includes StarDict.

Other resources

• Quechua, the language of love – Some Quechua phrases about love translated in English and Español.