LEARN SPANISH OR QUECHUA IN CUSCO - PERU

and visit Machu Picchu 

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QUECHUA, LANGUAGE OF THE INCAS

                                

                                  

Quechua ("qheshwa")was the official language of  the Inca Empire.  Today it is  spoken by approximately 13 million people in Latin America: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Northern Chile, Argentina, and Southern Colombia.

                                              

In Peru, a quarter of the population speaks Quechua, and about a third of the Quechua speakers speak no Spanish.

The best-known form of Quechua is that spoken in Cusco (Qosqo), in southern Peru and east to Bolivia. 

 

Quechua is an agglutinating language because the root of a word can be followed by one or more suffixes.

                                           

                                                                             

 

ROOT        +SUFFIX               +SUFFIX   

Rumi           rumiwan               rumillawan

Stone          with the stone    only with the

                                                    stone

      


HOW  I  WORK 

  

  

Lessons are private unless otherwise requested.

A full time schedule comprises 20 hours a week (Monday through Friday, 2 hours grammar and 2 hours conversation)

The lessons can take place at my home or at a cafe downtown, complemented with fieldtrips to the traditional markets in Cusco and Chincheros, places where it is easy to encounter native Quechua speakers.

I provide all study materials


Typical Maras scene. The woman in the picture is putting up her banner announcing that the chicha is ready for sale.  

          

HOW I LEARNED QUECHUA

    

                                             

I first learned Quechua from my grandmother Josefa(picture above),  who lived  in the town of Maras in the province of Urubamba.  A town where 90% of the population speaks Quechua as a first language.

  

Thanks to her I learned my first words as a child at the age of six. From that age, I spent every vacation with Josefita until I was twelve. Each vacation was an opportunity to learn more.

  

I also spoke Quechua with my mother, but only about 10% of the time. The dominant language in our household is Spanish.

 

In order to round out my knowledge of Quechua, I later studied the grammar at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco and became a certified teacher.

HUANCARO SATURDAY MARKET  

                                                                            

                                    

PRICES

   

Prices below are for private lessons.

My hourly rate is*S/ 28.00 per hour(here in Cusco) but if you take the full 20 hours (4 hours a day, 5 days a week) the price is  S/ 500.00 per week (a savings S/60.00).

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