Shipibo Language & Culture
🛶 14 days to the maloca · 🌀 Review · Repaso · ⚡ Speed review · Unlock the full course
Every lesson you finish draws the next turn of the line.
Two courses. The first takes you to a real conversation. The second, when you are ready, opens the language of ceremony and song.
Tap a thing and it tells you its name. No signup — fourteen little doors into the language.
✦Temas · All topicsShipibo for travellers, guests and beginners · Beginner · finishes at a real conversation · 35 lessons
Read it, hear it, greet someone, and say who you are.
You will: Greet anyone, say your name, and thank them.
1Read Shipibo in 90 seconds2The sounds of Shipibo3The little word -ra4Greetings5Your name6How are you?7Thanks and goodbyesThe everyday basics the old course never taught.
You will: Count to ten and introduce your family — I, you, we.
1Numbers 1–52Numbers 6–103Family and people4I, you, weThe course's strongest skill — say what a thing is like.
You will: Say what anything is like — big, beautiful, tasty — and name the world around you.
1This and that2The core adjectives3Turning the volume up (and down)4Four kinds of beauty5Food and flavor6From the field and the river7The sky and the night8Rain, earth and water9Animals of the river — first meetings10Animals of the river — the storied onesWhose is it, and how many.
You will: Say whose it is, and speak of more than one.
1Whose is it?2Culture interlude — the river and its people3Many things, together thingsWhere sentences start behaving like speech.
You will: Ask where, when and who — and say what is happening and what happened.
1What are you doing?2I apple eat: word order3Everyday doing4Doing things to things — part 15Doing things to things — part 26Asking: where, when, who7The everyday past — -ke8Wanting to9Feelings10Putting it all togetherPut all of it together and finish.
You will: Walk through a whole day and say it in Shipibo.
1Manashawa's walk — putting it togetherWhen the last lesson is behind you, come here and show what you carry.
✦Take the river examThe register of ceremony, song and medicine · Advanced · after you can hold a conversation · 14 lessons
What changes, and why it gets harder here.
You will: Hear the moment the language crosses into song.
1Before you go further — a change of registerHow a Shipibo verb is built, piece by piece.
You will: Follow a sung verb from its announcement to its completion.
1Yon — all the way through2Announcing: ban and banon3Doing: -ai, -bainkin, -shamani4Completing: -taana, -aketaana, final -xon5The freshest past and the humble voiceRao, the body, the worlds, the dieta.
You will: Name the medicine world in its own words — and ask before you assume.
1Rao — medicine, and who carries it2The little word -ya — how Shipibo builds a healer3Kené — the pattern you can see and the pattern you can hear4Seven dimensions of being5The worlds6Kano and niwe — structure and wind7Sama — the dieta in its own words8The humble voice