The Best Way to Learn Guarani in 2026

The best way to learn Guarani depends on why you are learning it. A visitor planning a trip to Paraguay and a reader of Guarani poetry need different things. For both, most of your time goes to reading and listening to Guarani you can follow, which is called comprehensible input. The rest goes to review and some real conversation.

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A 2016 review of 49 studies in Reading in a Foreign Language, a University of Hawaii journal, found that people learning English read better after reading a lot of easy material.

To check the level, read a few sentences. If most have about one new word, keep reading. If you can't tell what's happening, pick something easier.

For every goal, most of your time goes to reading and listening. Spend the rest on the skill your goal needs most.

• 🧳Visit ParaguayLearn a few greetings, such as Mbaʼéichapa? (How are you?) and Aguyje (thank you). Paraguayans tend to speak Spanish to visitors, so begin in Guarani yourself.
• 👪Talk With Paraguayan Family or FriendsIn Paraguay, 38.6 percent of people aged 5 and over use Guarani and Spanish together at home, so expect both in one conversation. Learn the everyday words first, and the Spanish words people mix in will start to make sense.
• 🏠Live or Work in ParaguayGuarani and Spanish are both official languages there. Read Agencia IP's Guarani news, and ask a language school in Paraguay about courses, since Bruno Estigarribia, who wrote a free reference grammar of Paraguayan Guarani, lists Ateneo de Lengua y Cultura Guarani, El Granel, IDIPAR and CELPE as places that teach Guarani to foreigners.
• 📚Read Poetry and BooksStart with the free Oremba'e library, which has more than 14,000 poems. Susy Delgado also translated Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo into Guarani. ABC Color reported in 2024 that printed copies would go to public libraries in Paraguay, so ask a Paraguayan library or bookshop whether you can get one.
• 🔬Study the Language ItselfEstigarribia's A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani is free to download from UCL Press. Read a section when a pattern in your lessons puzzles you.
• 📘Follow a Free Course at HomeThe Peace Corps wrote the Guarani Basic Course, and both parts are free PDFs. Work through one unit at a time, reading the dialogues with their English translations.

To see how many hours each stage takes, read how long it takes to learn Guarani.

Most parts have a free option, such as the Peace Corps course or the Academy's dictionary, and an app or service for when you want more.

• 🧩Taking Every Long Word ApartLearn a form like oñembohasa (it was translated) as a whole when you first meet it, as Estigarribia advises, and look at its parts later.
• 🗂️Lists With No SentencesLearn each word inside a sentence you read and hear, and save the whole sentence.
• 🔎Treating Spanish Words as MistakesParaguayans use many Spanish words when they speak Guarani, and the Spanish words for numbers above four are common in speech. Learn the words people actually say.