Chamala: Learn Tatar Language

Chamala helps you learn the Tatar language from scratch. Short daily sessions of a few minutes: a course, words with audio, practice games, a dictionary and a chat bot that talks to you in Tatar. The app has been installed more than 35,000 times. COURSE FROM ZERO 16 lessons in 8 modules, from greetings to talking about yourself. Every lesson has theory, new words, dialogues and a quiz at the end. Dialogues are fully voiced, many with a video. STEP BY STEP 25 short lessons in 5 units: introductions, food, family, home and town, describing things. Pick the translation, match pairs, build phrases, write what you hear and speak out loud. Every unit comes with a grammar guide. 520+ WORDS AND PHRASES WITH AUDIO Picture flashcards by topic: animals, food, family, nature, town, clothes, numbers, colours. Listen to every word, and tap one to open its card with examples. PRACTICE GAMES • Words — translate a Tatar word • Translate — translate a phrase • Pairs — match a word with its translation • Gaps — fill a word into a phrase • Speaking — speech recognition checks your Tatar • Affixes — build a word from a stem and endings • Harmony — practise Tatar vowel harmony SMART REVIEW Chamala keeps track of how well you know each word and brings it back just as you start to forget it. CHAT IN TATAR Talk to an AI partner: meeting someone, shopping, chatting with a colleague or any topic you like. Reply by text or voice, listen to the answers and open the translation. TATAR–RUSSIAN DICTIONARY 11,900+ words that work offline. Search in Tatar or Russian, in any word form: «китапларда» finds «китап». Translate a word from Tatar to Russian and back in seconds. FOR KIDS The Tatar alphabet, first words in 8 topics, picture games, letter games and word building, picture stories, poems and songs. Kids earn stars and trade them for colouring pages to print. WORD OF THE DAY Add the widget to your home screen and get a new Tatar word every day. Every Tatar letter — ә, ө, ү, җ, ң, һ — works in words, audio and exercises. The app is available in English and Russian. Chamala is for complete beginners, heritage learners who want to bring back the language of their family, visitors to Kazan and Tatarstan, and kids learning with their parents. Everything is free, with no subscription. Сәлам! Let's start.