Researching Aymara Culture?
Feel more connection to local people in the field. Improve your Aymara to strengthen your relationships and build greater trust with the Andean communities.
Living and working in the Altiplano?
Speak the local language to connect with communities and with campesino or urban grassroots organizations.
Learn Aymara to understand the context and feel at ease in participatory workshops — whether in the rural Altiplano or with communities in El Alto and La Paz.
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 Aymara course and learn how to ask your way home.
Combine Aymara with Spanish
Prepare yourself for other areas of Latin America by combining Aymara lessons with Spanish classes.
About Aymara
Aymara is spoken by 3 million people in the Andes of Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
The language belongs to the Jaqi group of indigenous languages in the Andes.
Aymara (and Quechua) are unusual languages, where the future is seen as being behind the speaker and the past in front.