Uzbek deserved a better app. So we built it.

Why now

Uzbekistan is opening up faster than its language tools. Record foreign investment, more than 17,000 foreign companies, thirty-plus foreign university campuses, a 54% jump in international students in 2025, and an IT Park with 2,800 resident companies have brought hundreds of thousands of people to a country whose state language most of them cannot read yet. Since 2023 official life runs in Latin-script Uzbek. The old assumption that Russian is enough is fading in offices, clinics and classrooms.

The apps that exist treat Uzbek as one more row in a spreadsheet: the same forty units, translated, with English explanations and tourist vocabulary. That is not what a Chinese engineer on a petrochemical site, an Indian medical student on rotation, or a Russian-speaking developer registering a company needs.

What AI-native means here

Every lesson is written with AI for one reason for learning (work, study, family, moving or travel), set in Tashkent and explained in English, and your name is filled in. Each reason has its own path of 20 beginner (A1) lessons so far.

• In English at launch. Explanations compare Uzbek with English. Whole lessons in Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Hindi and Korean, with comparisons for those speakers, are planned.
• Words for your reason. Work, study, family, moving or travel.
• Grammar shown, not tabled. Every Uzbek word is split into root and suffixes so the pattern becomes visible: kitoblarimizda = kitob + lar + imiz + da.
• Audio everywhere. Every word, sentence and dialogue is spoken, with an AI voice, slowly or at natural speed.
• A conversation partner. Suhbat lets you role-play real situations with the AI at your level and get corrected without embarrassment.

Large language models are famously shaky at Uzbek morphology on their own. Uzbekcha does not ship raw model output: generated Uzbek passes through rule-based checks on the script, impossible suffix chains and sound changes at suffix boundaries. It can still contain mistakes, so you can report one from any lesson.

Latin script, and only Latin script

Uzbek is written in a 29-letter Latin alphabet. It has been the official script since the 1990s and mandatory in state institutions since 2023, and the presidential administration switched fully in 2025. Uzbekcha teaches the Latin script exclusively.

Who we are

Languages at launch

English at launch: the app and every lesson are in English, and explanations compare Uzbek with English. Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Hindi and Korean are planned next, then Arabic, German and French.

For universities, employers and institutions

If you onboard foreign staff or students who need Uzbek, we would like to talk. Cohort licences, a supervisor dashboard, and vocabulary tuned to your organisation are on the roadmap. Write to hello@uzbekcha.app.