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I grew up speaking Quechua with my grandmother and Spanish at school, in a village above Cusco. Most of what I know I learned at her kitchen table and in the fields. I learned to teach it by helping my cousins, and then friends who came to visit and wanted to say a few words. I am not a linguist. I am a speaker who has taught beginners for eight years.

My videos are filmed in the village, on the terraces and at home, with picture cards, a notebook and no hurry. I teach the Quechua of Cusco, the way I speak it. What I sell are the things I wished my first students had: a workbook, picture cards to print and cut, a sounds chart, a booklet of phrases and two video courses. I do not sell lessons you have to attend. I teach you what you can practise on your own.