Chamala: Learn Tatar Language

Marat Faizerakhmanov

About this app

Chamala is a free app to learn the Tatar language from scratch: lessons, an offline Tatar–Russian dictionary, words and phrases with audio, practice games and an AI chat partner who speaks Tatar. A few minutes a day is enough. The app has been installed more than 35,000 times.

TATAR COURSE FROM ZERO
16 lessons in 8 modules, from the alphabet and greetings to talking about yourself. Every lesson has grammar explained, 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.

OFFLINE TATAR–RUSSIAN DICTIONARY
11,900+ words. Search in Tatar or Russian, in any word form: «китапларда» finds «китап». Translate a word from Tatar to Russian and back in seconds, even without internet.

WORDS AND PHRASES WITH AUDIO
520+ picture flashcards by topic: animals, food, family, nature, town, clothes, numbers, colours. Listen to every word and phrase, like a Tatar phrasebook that speaks. Tap a word to open its card with a photo, audio and 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 pronunciation
• 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, so Tatar vocabulary stays with you.

CHAT IN TATAR WITH AI
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 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 with its translation 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 and no ads. Сәлам! Ready to learn Tatar?

What’s new

• A certificate for each Step by Step section you finish: add your name, download a PDF or share it.
• Touch and hold the app icon to jump to Word of the day, Repeat or Chat.
• Pronunciation highlights where what it heard differs from the word. Search in Words forgives typos.
• 109 lesson words in part two of the course now have audio, and you can listen to Dictionary entries.