Researching K'iche' Cultures?
Feel more connection to local people in the field. Improve your K'iche' to strengthen your relationships and build greater trust with the Mayan communities.
Living and working in Guatemala?
Speak the local language to connect with rural communities and campesino or urban grassroots organizations.
Learn K'iche' to understand the context and feel at ease in participatory workshops — whether in rural Guatemala or with communities in Quetzaltenango and Chichicastenango.
Travelling through Guatemala?
Make new friends and share experiences with the locals as you trek in the Guatemalan highlands. Gain the confidence to venture off the beaten track in more remote areas of the El Quiché region.
Take our survival K'iche' course and learn to ask the way home.
Combine K'iche' with Spanish
Prepare yourself for other areas of Latin America by combining K'iche' lessons with Spanish classes.
About K'iche'
K'iche' is spoken by 1 million people in Guatemala.
The language belongs to the Mayan family of indigenous languages in Guatemala.
The human rights activist, Rigoberta Menchu, is a K'iche' speaker. The most famous work in the Classical K'iche' language is the Popol Vuh (also written Pop Wuj).