Game of Thrones: New iOS app teaches fans to speak Dothraki fluently

The fictional language is spoken by Emilia Clarke's Khaleesi in the HBO series

Antonia Molloy
Tuesday 14 October 2014 11:35 BST
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Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)

Want to learn to speak Dothraki? Sek, k'athjilari! (That’s “yes, definitely” to non-native speakers).

If you didn’t understand that but wanted to, you can now join the ranks of Daenerys and Drogo by downloading an app that will have you speaking fluent Dothraki in no time.

Game of Thrones fans will have been captivated by the beautiful tongue on screen, but David Peterson, who developed the language for the HBO series, had to go back to George RR Martin’s original Song of Ice and Fire novels to really understand the fictional vernacular.

The Dothraki Companion app features 15 thematic flashcards with more than 300 Dothraki words, as well as a pronunciation guide, simple grammar tutorials and interactive games.

Available to Apple users, it serves as an on-the-go practice tool to accompany the Living Language Dothraki course being published by Random House.

Peterson said: “It doesn’t really matter if the language is invented or a natural language – you kind of treat it the same way. You start small and you build.

“It’s the best thing in the world learning a language, it’s the most fun."

What are you waiting for? Shieraki gori ha yeraan!*

*The stars are charging for you!

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