Rumantsch · Sursilvan

Allegra.

Sursilvan — the most widely spoken form of Romansh, alive in the Surselva valleys of Grisons. Switzerland’s fourth national language, spoken by around 40,000 people. Learn it, word by word.

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17 Chapters
82 Lessons
1,482 Words
20 Dialogues
Allegra app home screen

Why Allegra?

A course that never invents a word

Checked, Not Guessed

Every Romansh word in the course is traceable to the Pledari Grond, the official dictionary of the Lia Rumantscha — attested headword, gender and meaning.

82 Lessons, 17 Chapters

From your first Allegra to real conversation — greetings, numbers, daily life, travel, food, grammar and the verbs that hold it all together.

Spaced Repetition

Flashcard decks schedule each word on its own review curve, so the ones you keep forgetting come back and the ones you know get out of the way.

20 Real Conversations

The restaurant, the station, the doctor, the ski slope, the school. Every line in Sursilvan and English, with the phonetics underneath.

Pledari

A searchable dictionary of every word the course teaches, A to Z. Search in Romansh, English, German, Italian or French — Hütte and capanna both find camona.

Read It in Your Language

The whole course — every gloss, every explanation, every chapter blurb — in English, German, Italian or French. No screen quietly falls back to English.

A Word Every Day

Open the app to one word, one challenge and your streak — a small, finishable thing waiting for you every morning.

Written Phonetics

Every headword and every dialogue line carries a spelled-out pronunciation with the stress in capitals — citad reads chee‑TAHD.

Grischun

The world behind the language: essays on Romansh today, a year of Grisons observances, a timeline, and the Latin roots the words came from.

Lecziuns

17 chapters, 1,482 words

Basics

Allegra, gratcha fitg & first words

Numbers

Counting, prices & quantities

Daily Life

Mornings, routines & the week

Travel

Trains, tickets & directions

Food & Drink

Capuns, caffè & the market

Family

Relations & the house

Nature

Mountains, valleys & weather

Swiss Culture

Customs, festivals & the valleys

Verbs

Esser, haver & the everyday ones

Grammar

Gender, plurals & word order

Shopping

Shops, prices & paying

Health

The body, the doctor & feeling unwell

Work

Jobs, the office & the day

Education

School, learning & the classroom

Romance

Affection, invitations & feelings

Idioms

Turns of phrase from the valleys

Technology

Phones, screens & modern life

Discurs

20 conversations you’ll actually have

En il Restaurant

Ordering food and asking for the bill.

Gia la Staziun

Buying tickets and asking about platforms.

Tar il Medì

Describing symptoms at the doctor’s office.

Sin la Pista

A day on the ski slopes.

En Scola

A parent speaking with a teacher.

Sin in’Excursiun

Hiking through the Swiss Alps.

En il Museum

Visiting a Romansh cultural museum.

En la Banca

Opening an account and banking services.

Screenshots

A peek inside the app

Allegra — Sursilvan Romansh

Sursilvan

Home screen with the daily word and streak

Every Day

Lessons list

Lessons

Vocabulary entry with pronunciation and example

Vocabulary

Dialogues list

Dialogues

Restaurant dialogue in Sursilvan and English

At the Restaurant

Flashcards

Flashcards

Grischun — language and world

Grischun

Pledari — the searchable dictionary

Pledari

Empren sursilvan

Begin Today

Ils Idioms

One language, five written forms

Romansh is written five ways, one per valley group, plus a modern pan-regional standard. Allegra teaches Sursilvan — and shows you, word by word, how the others differ.

Sursilvan

Surselva, the upper Rhine — the one you learn here

Sutsilvan

Hinterrhein valley

Surmiran

Surses and the Albula

Puter

Upper Engadine

Vallader

Lower Engadine and Val Müstair

Rumantsch Grischun

No valley — a written standard

Allegra

Empren sursilvan

The first chapter is free, and no account is required.

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