Learn Punjabi with Ladoo. Practice speaking and reading Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi with quick, bite sized lessons for free. Made for heritage Punjabi learners and beginners.
You understand Punjabi but freeze when it is your turn to speak. You follow every word at the dinner table but cannot read a single line of Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi. Or you are starting from zero, and every app you have tried barely supports Punjabi at all.
Ladoo is the first app to teach Punjabi in both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi.
Ladoo has two separate tracks. The language track teaches you to speak and understand Punjabi. The script track teaches you to read and write Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi. Already understand the language? Start with the script. Brand new? Start with the language.
What you can do
1. Learn in short Punjabi lessons. Each one takes a few minutes and keeps your place, so you can stop today and pick up tomorrow.
2. Learn Punjabi in Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi. Each script has its own version of the course. The Shahmukhi lessons are not Gurmukhi run through a converter. Where people who speak Shahmukhi Punjabi use a different word, Ladoo's lesson teaches that word.
3. Practice the same idea several ways. Punjabi lessons mix listening, translation, matching, and writing exercises.
4. Read eight narrated Punjabi stories, voiced line by line in the script you are learning.
5. Talk with Bhaji, your AI Punjabi tutor. Ask about grammar in plain English, or hold a real conversation in Punjabi.
6. Keep every Punjabi word. Words you learn go into your word bank, and spaced-repetition flashcards bring each one back right before you would forget it.
Why Ladoo:
Punjabi is the language of your family and your music. Ladoo gives you a way to use it: ordering at a dhaba or texting your nani in Shahmukhi or your dadi in Gurmukhi.
Ladoo Pro:
Ladoo is free to start, and every lesson stays free. Ladoo Pro adds the reading hub (every letter with its sound), the writing hub (trace letters and words by hand), unlimited conversations with Bhaji, integrated review that mixes questions from every lesson you have finished, all eight stories, switching between Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi anytime, the full flashcard word bank, and a free weekly streak reset.
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Finally found something that can be used for Shahmukhi Punjabi. I’ve been using the language track to learn spoken Punjabi and it’s been great so far.
Early Stages
M0byWik
I think this app is great for learning Punjabi so far. But a note to the developers: please show the corrections when a sentence is incorrect. As a native english speaker I am trying to understand the sentence structure without using google translate, but because this app doesn’t actually show me what I did wrong I have been leaving some lessons very confused.
Developer Response
Thank you for feedback. For the next update, we'll work on incorporating a feature that shows users the correct answers if they get a question wrong. We'll also implement a guidebook feature that gives the users some guidance on relevant sentence structure/grammar concepts during their lessons. Thanks again for the advice, we hope this will help!
Really love it!!
N Bambrah
been using this app to learn Punjabi and get my speaking skills better. it’s helped me understand and make some conversation with my Punjabi family!
1. Shahmukhi is here! :) Thanks for your patience on this one. The whole Punjabi track now works in Shahmukhi: lessons, word bank, flashcards, numbers, stories, and notifications. And this isn't just the Gurmukhi course written in a different script. We tuned the vocab to the Punjabi that's actually spoken on the Shahmukhi side, so you're learning the dialect that goes with it. Speaking, reading, and writing are all in, plus a new Shahmukhi alphabet track of 46 letters across 24 lessons. You can switch scripts from your Profile and your progress carries over.
2. Integrated review. You can now go back through old lessons to keep your sentence skills sharp and make sure past material actually stuck, instead of it fading once you move on.
3. Module skipping. If you complete the final review for a module, you can place straight into later modules and jump ahead rather than working through everything in order.
4. Review lessons rebuilt. They're sentence-focused now, built around the harder skills of putting full sentences together, understanding them, and saying them out loud.
5. Word bank matching mode. The word bank has a new matching mode, so you can practice by pairing cards as well as the drills you already had.
6. Screen redesign with a new practice tab. One place to hone specific skills like reading, writing, practicing your mistakes, and reviewing past lessons.
7. Bug fixes and UI cleanups across the app.
Version 2.2.3
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Information
Seller
Ladoo Learn Punjabi LLC
Size
85.8 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.