Wherever you're starting from

However you come to Tibetan, whether by heritage, practice, travel, or plain curiosity, Gangkar meets you there.

Heritage speakers

Connect with heritage

You grew up hearing Tibetan but never learned to read it. Finally bridge the gap to the language you already know by ear.

Practitioners & readers

Deepen your practice

Make liturgical grammar and classical spellings make sense, so the meaning of traditional texts opens up.

Speakers & travelers

Speak with confidence

Build the everyday phrases to talk with family, chat with locals, or find your way on the road.

The simply curious

Discover the language

Explore the history and structure of one of the world's oldest living languages, just for the wonder of it.

Learn the way you first learned to speak

The Gangkar way

Sound before symbolsImmerse in the natural rhythm of spoken Tibetan from day one, guided by native voices.
No textbook overwhelmSkip the early wall of rules · you start understanding real words right away.
Depth when you want itThe alphabet, script, and classical grammar wait underneath for the moment you dive deeper.

Every word, recorded by a native voice

Speaking Tibetan

Native voiceEvery word voiced by a Lhasa speaker, not synthetic.
Flip & recallTap-to-flip flashcards, then listen & choose quizzes.
It grows with youSentence-building drills as you progress.

skya · superscript ས, root ཀ, subscript ཡ, combined into one

Writing & reading Tibetan

Sound-led alphabetAll 30 consonants, each voiced by a native speaker, with true stroke order.
Vowels & stacks5 vowels and 70+ stack combinations, plus prefixes and suffixes, recognition-first.
Classical rootThe reading rules that make silent letters make sense, grounded in classical Tibetan grammar.

Why I built Gangkar the way I did.

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། I'm Jinpa. Tibetan American. I grew up watching friends and family slowly stop speaking Tibetan, because the resources were never there. There was no Duolingo for Tibetan. no simple, accessible app that taught the language properly. the options were textbooks or nothing.

so i built the closest thing i could, and i build it in the open. i read every message, and what people report shapes what gets built next. it's not perfect yet, but the foundation is solid, because that was always the priority: a simple, accessible way to actually start learning Tibetan. ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

Jinpa · founder of GangkarBuilding in the open, for the language and the people who carry it.

Loved by early learners

5 stars on the App Store, and kind words from the community.

Duolingo for Tibetan, highly recommend ★★★★★

I've been looking for a Duolingo version for Tibetan and came across this. Very interactive, a fun way to learn with levels. My little cousins love it over their boring textbooks.

tndolkarApp Store

Finally, Duolingo for Tibetan ★★★★★

So fun and intuitive. I've been wanting to learn how to read Tibetan for so long, and the dev is very receptive to feedback. So excited to keep going.

teddy gyatsoApp Store

The first with speaking and listening ★★★★★

I'm a heritage learner and this is the first resource I ever came across that even has the option for speaking and listening. Thank you for your work.

A heritage learnervia message

It changes the game ★★★★★

I could read Tibetan phonetically but never speak or understand it, because I struggled to find resources. This app is amazing. It changes the game.

A human-rights advocatevia Reddit

You are doing a wonderful thing ★★★★★

I've studied classical Tibetan and read texts for seven years, and I'm really enjoying this already. I think you are doing a wonderful thing.

A longtime classical studentvia Reddit

A wonderful and important endeavor ★★★★★

What a wonderful and important endeavor. I've studied Tibetan for years with a native-speaking tutor, and I'd love to have an app to use daily.

A dedicated learnervia Reddit

Master Tibetan.Keep it alive.