Uzbek has more learning tools than most people find on a first search. This is every option we could verify on 17 September 2026, with additions checked on 19 September 2026, grouped by what kind of tool it is. On 21 October 2026 we read again the pages of the products named in the quick answer and the language lists of the big apps below, and updated the entries that had changed. We did not install or test any of them. Each description is the product’s own, in our words.
We make Uzbekcha, which is on Android now and coming soon to iPhone. It is mentioned once, at the end. Check each product’s current listing before you decide.
Key points
- The large apps people try first (Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu and others) did not offer Uzbek on 17 September or on 21 October 2026.
- The tools that do exist are different in kind, so choose by the job, not by a ranking.
- Few listings say which script they teach. Where we could verify it, we say so.
- One product AI assistants recommend is built to teach foreign languages to Uzbek speakers, not Uzbek to foreigners; see the section near the end.
Phrase and vocabulary apps
uTalk. Over 2,500 Uzbek words and phrases by topic, practised through games, with audio recorded by native speakers from Uzbekistan. uTalk is clear about its scope: its Uzbek page says the lessons “put speaking first, not grammar tables.” It can be learned from many base languages. The publisher also lists an older separate app, Learn Uzbek - EuroTalk, covering nine beginner topics.
Learn Uzbek Beginner! (Ali Umer). The listing claims more than 8,000 words and phrases in 200+ topics and 23 chapters, with six quiz modes, flashcards, offline use and native-speaker pronunciation, starting from the alphabet and grammar.
Learn Uzbek: For Beginners (same developer). Word and phrase lessons organised in classes such as alphabet, greetings, numbers, travel and shopping, usable offline. Its listing notes that only the first nine lessons of chapter 1 are free. The source of the audio is not stated.
Learn Uzbek (Beginners) by BNR Languages. An offline beginner course covering the alphabet and vocabulary with images, with a review mode. Its listing says you “practice reading, writing, and listening with native audio recordings.” It lists more than 40 interface languages.
Learn Uzbek (Ghumman Tech). Vocabulary and phrases by topic, with quizzes, a study mode and your own flashcards. Its listing says it uses a text-to-speech engine for audio, and its Google Play description lists dozens of languages you can learn from, Hindi, Russian, Arabic and Chinese among them. Script is not stated.
Courses
Ling. An Uzbek course with native audio, games, flashcards and a dialogue feature. Its page says: “Lessons written and reviewed by native speakers.” Script, grammar explanation and level are not stated for Uzbek. More in Ling for Uzbek.
Mango Languages. Uzbek is on Mango’s official available-languages list. On 21 October 2026 Mango also had an Uzbek course page. It describes conversation-first lessons with native-speaker audio, cultural notes, spaced-repetition review, grammar notes and a voice-comparison tool. It does not state the course’s length, levels or script. More in Mango Languages for Uzbek.
Transparent Language Online. Its language list has two Uzbek entries, one Cyrillic and one Latin. Transparent sells mainly to libraries, schools and government, and says that “Languages vary by organization.” We did not verify how an individual gets access.
IZI. A course for Russian speakers; the listing is in Russian. It describes grammar taught through visual rules, a drill trainer, listening dialogues, phonetics work and an online chat with a teacher.
Sentence and listening trainers
Glossika. Sentence-by-sentence training with native-speaker audio, a placement test and a range of levels its page states as A1 to C1. Its page is headed “Acquire Uzbek, Sentence by Sentence”, and the sample sentence is in Latin script. The Uzbek page belongs to the web product; we could not verify whether the newer App Store app includes Uzbek. More in Glossika for Uzbek.
Uzbek - Listening Speaking (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hang). Video-based listening and speaking practice with dialogues and tap-a-word lookups, according to its listing.
Ivoca. Its Uzbek page describes an Uzbek learning application “that utilizes conversation and videos”, with speech recognition, dialogue lessons, pronunciation and grammar practice; the page’s own title names Android, iOS, web and desktop. The page states no script, levels or interface languages. Its App Store and Google Play buttons lead to publisher pages, not to an app listing; the Apple one is the publisher of Uzbek - Listening Speaking above, but we could not confirm the two are the same product.
AI chat
KeelAI. An AI tutor for ten languages, Uzbek among them, which its site calls “10 rare and in-demand languages”, offered as iOS and Android apps and a Telegram bot. Its site lists an Uzbek dictionary, a reader, dialogues and live-call practice with an AI tutor called Aziza, and its own interface comes in English and Russian. Its Uzbek tool pages say they show Latin and Cyrillic spellings. It does not say which language the explanations inside an Uzbek lesson use.
Talkio AI. An AI speaking partner whose languages page lists Uzbek, as a “Learn Uzbek” entry, among the languages it supports; its homepage says it supports 70+ languages. The entry has no page of its own, and nothing is said about script, level or interface language for Uzbek.
Talkpal. A general-purpose AI conversation app. Its App Store listing describes “GPT-based conversational AI for interactive, adaptive learning” and names Uzbek among 130+ languages. Its Uzbek page is general and states nothing about script, native-speaker audio or a structured Uzbek curriculum.
Tutors
italki and Preply each have an Uzbek tutors page with one-to-one lessons. Both listed only a handful of Uzbek tutors at the time of writing. Script, method and teaching language depend on the tutor. More in Uzbek tutors or an app.
Classes and free web courses
Uzbek School, Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature. The university runs an “Uzbek Language Course for Foreigners” with textbooks at A1, A2 and B1 level: general and business Uzbek in person, and an intensive online course, in small groups or one to one, three sessions a week for three months. It is a paid course.
Yep.uz self-study course. A free beginner course by Marina Kozlova: 43 lessons plus one on respectful forms of address, written in English, with audio. Its page says it is “designed for those who want to start learning Uzbek from scratch — or almost from scratch”.
LearnUzbek.org. Free web lessons on vocabulary, grammar and culture with podcasts and exercises, and a downloadable complete course that is sold. A different site with a similar name, learnuzbek.uz, has free Latin-script lessons with an English and Russian switch.
Teach Yourself Uzbek (teachyourselfuzbek.com). A personal site by Brian Greco, a former student of Arizona State University’s intensive Uzbek course, which collects free Uzbek learning PDFs, book and dictionary recommendations. We did not open the PDFs one by one, so check the script and date of anything you download.
Live Lingua. Hosts one free Uzbek course and ebook taken from Peace Corps material. See the free resources guide for what the Peace Corps manual is.
Language exchange apps
HelloTalk has a page for finding Uzbek language partners, and Tandem includes Uzbek in its supported languages. Both are for chatting with native speakers. Neither has Uzbek lessons or a curriculum.
Dictionaries and translators
Uzbek/English Dictionary (FB Publishing). Bidirectional, with a claimed 100,000+ words, offline use and tap-to-translate.
Wisdom lugʻati: English-Uzbek. Made for Uzbek speakers learning English, with a listing written in Latin-script Uzbek and a claimed 120,000+ words and phrases. Usable in reverse as a reference.
Google Translate supports Uzbek text. See how far to trust it.
Textbooks
Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook by Nigora Azimova (Georgetown University Press). A functional approach to grammar with integrated skills; the publisher offers “authentic audio and video materials, available for free on GUPTextbooks.com”. It includes a Cyrillic reader as an appendix. Indiana University’s CeLCAR also lists elementary and intermediate Uzbek textbooks, sold through the same press. For free material see free resources to learn Uzbek.
Checked and do not offer Uzbek
On 17 September 2026, and again on 21 October 2026, Uzbek was absent from the published language lists of Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu, Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Mondly and Drops. Memrise does not list Uzbek on memrise.com on either date; we could not check community-made decks inside it. Duolingo’s list was 44 languages to learn on both dates. This can change, so check their current lists. See does Duolingo have Uzbek?
Could not verify
50Languages and LingoHut may have Uzbek material, but both sites blocked our checks, so we make no statement about them. Open their sites and look. LingFast (not the same product as Ling) describes itself as teaching “English, Spanish, French, German, and more”; we found no statement that it includes Uzbek, and its own site did not resolve on 19 September 2026.
Named by AI assistants: what we found
On 18 September 2026 we asked ChatGPT and Gemini for the best apps and the best free resources for learning Uzbek, then looked up the names they gave. The ones that teach Uzbek are in the sections above. Here is the rest.
Ibrat Farzandlari (Ibrat Academy) was ChatGPT’s first suggestion. It is a project in Uzbekistan whose site and app teach foreign languages, English, Russian, Turkish, Korean and others, to Uzbek speakers, free of charge. The interface is in Uzbek. That is the reverse of what a foreigner learning Uzbek needs. Its site does list Uzbek-language courses of its own, including literacy lessons and courses aimed at Uzbek families abroad. We did not open those course pages, so we cannot say what language they are taught in.
uztili.com, which ChatGPT cited as a source, is written in Uzbek, for Uzbek speakers: language, travel and study abroad. We read its homepage and found no course for foreigners there.
One assistant named a YouTube series, “I’m Doing Uzbek Too”. We could not find a channel under that name or close variants; the title may be inexact, so we make no statement about it.
Treat a recommendation from an AI assistant the way you would treat one from a stranger: open the product’s own page and check that it teaches Uzbek, to you, in a script you want.
Where Uzbekcha fits
Uzbekcha is our own app, so it is listed last and not ranked. It is on Android through Google Play as a paid subscription, and coming soon to iPhone. It is an AI tutor that teaches each lesson around your reason for learning, with your name in it, in English, in Latin script, with every word split into root and suffixes, audio on every word, and a conversation with a character from the lesson. The waitlist on this page is for the iPhone version.