Uzbek deserved a better app. So we're building it.
Uzbekcha is an AI-native way to learn Uzbek, made in Tashkent by UzVIP, the studio behind IELTS Mentor AI.
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
Uzbekcha has no fixed course. When you open a lesson it is generated for you from three things you told us on day one: your native language, why you are learning, and your level. That changes everything downstream.
- Explanations in your language. Not translated from English. Written for a Turkish speaker (who already has vowel harmony and suffixes), or a Chinese speaker (who is meeting agglutination for the first time), or a Russian speaker (who knows Central Asia but not Turkic grammar).
- Vocabulary from your life. Work, study, family, or the road, and inside "work", your industry.
- 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. Slow, normal, or native 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 a morphological validator that checks suffix order, vowel harmony and Latin-script consistency, and is grounded in verified grammar and dictionary sources rather than the model's memory.
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, and shows the Cyrillic form only where you are likely to meet it, on older signs and documents.
Who we are
UzVIP
An app studio in Tashkent. We build AI-first education products and ship them to the App Store and Google Play ourselves.
IELTS Mentor AI
Our first product: an AI examiner for IELTS Speaking and Writing. Same philosophy, the lesson is built from your own mistakes, not a fixed syllabus. ieltsmentor.ai
Uzbekcha
Our second: an AI tutor for the language we grew up speaking, for the people now arriving to work, study and live alongside us.
Languages at launch
English, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Hindi and Korean. Arabic, German and French follow. Your language sets the interface and every explanation.
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.
Learn Uzbek in your own language.
Uzbekcha generates every lesson for you: your language, your reason for being here, your level, with audio on every word. Join the waitlist and hear first.