Learn to speak Jamaican Patois — not just words, but the sounds, the rhythm and the reasons. 21 pronunciation lessons with an animated mouth, 48 grammar lessons, 551 words with their JLU spelling, 47 pieces on Jamaican history and culture written in Patois, 34 proverbs translated and explained, and a journey through all 15 parishes.
Open the app →Most Patois material is a word list. This teaches articulation — where your tongue goes, what your lips do — with an interactive animation built from published descriptions of Jamaican Creole phonology. It is a diagram that moves, not an MRI trace, so it teaches you the direction and the contrast rather than exact millimetres. It is also written in Cassidy-JLU, the actual writing system for the language, explained as you go.