Patwa PartnerYUH AREADY UNDERSTAND — MEK WI UNLOCK YUH MOUTH
Di Journey
❤ Mi Roots — a ya so yuh fambily come from. Teacha a go mek dis one personal.
Lessons
Culture Capsules
Proverbs fi dis parish
Song
Capstone
⚡ Cloze Rush
Fill di blank — 10 sentence, quick time. Combo up fi more points!
🎮 Yaad Games
Every game yaad pickney grow up pon — each one teaching yuh someting different. All free, all offline.
🁢 Yaad Domino
Match di ends, slam when yuh done. Six love a di dream.
🎙️ Teacha a talk…
Settings
Keys live only on this device and go directly to Anthropic / ElevenLabs. The app loads only the current lesson into the AI's context and routes small jobs to a cheaper model, so it costs a fraction of v1.
The brain — Claude API
platform.claude.com → API keys. Translations & quick jobs automatically use Haiku (5× cheaper).
The voice — ElevenLabs
elevenlabs.io → Profile → API keys. Add a Jamaican voice first: Voice Library → search “Jamaican” → Add. Repeated audio (capsules, drills) is cached — replays are free.
Accessibility
Hosted mode — family access
If Gyason (or whoever run di app) give yuh an access code, yuh nuh need no API keys — just fill in dese two an skip di key section dem above.
Mi Roots
Pick up to two family parishes (e.g. mumma side an puppa side). Both get a ❤ pon di map, an when yuh study inna dem parish deh, Teacha mek it personal — yuh fambily, yuh lineage.
Deep basilectLight on-ramp
Patois run pon a continuum — basilect to mesolect to English-adjacent. Di dial set six tings at once: copula, tense particles, pronouns, negation, lexicon depth, an glossing. Register-switching (granny vs office) a exactly wa di 🙏 Big People Talk moment train.
✍🏾 Written Patwa style now live inna di header — click di ✍🏾 button fi switch between popular spelling an Cassidy-JLU, any page, any time. Audio always pronounce from di popular version, so yuh saved audio still work.
Family Voices — Mi Fambily Dem
Record a relative (phone voice memo → save/export as an audio file) and add it here with a label like “Granfada — Wah gwaan mi yout”. Then practice answering him in the 🎙 Echo Drill → Family tab.
Progress
Someting break?
When di app do someting strange it write down di detail pon dis device an
nowhere else. Nutten get send by itself — deh no server fi send it to. When yuh ready,
copy or download di note an email it to [email protected], an dat a di only way it
ever leave yuh phone. Di note carry di build number, di page yuh did deh pon, di size a yuh
screen an di error text, wid key an email address strip out before it even write down. It
carry none a yuh progress, yuh recording, or anyting yuh type.
Yuh copy a fi yuh own learning, an yuh can use it offline pon as much a yuh own
device as yuh want. Weh yuh cyaan do: republish it, host it, resell it, or hand out
copy — whole or part, change or unchange — widout written permission. Fi teaching wid it
inna a classroom or a church group, ask — di answer usually yes.
Weh dis app is an is not. It a a practice tool build pon published description a
Jamaican Creole — di Cassidy-JLU orthography, standard phonology reference, an parish
history. It nuh replace a native speaker, an di mouth animation a a diagram weh move,
not a MRI trace. Nutten inna ya so a certified translation or professional language
instruction. Di AI part can seh sinting wrong; check anyting weh matter.
Yuh progress, yuh recording an yuh API key live pon yuh own device — dem never
leave it except when yuh yuhself press a button weh send dem somewhere. There is no
account, no analytics, an no server holding yuh data, because there is no server.
Yuh family's voices — record a relative wid di Interview Kit, add di clips ya so, transcribe dem, den learn from dem an practice answering. Clips never leave dis device.
Complete a parish's first lesson fi unlock its proverb dem.
🎙 Echo Drill
Hear it → seh it → compare. Yuh own ears a di judge — dat a how accent build.
No clips yet? Add dem inna ⚙️ Settings → Family Voices. Play di clip, record yuh answer, compare.