LearnRoots: Ethnic Languages
Learn Your Mother Tongue
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The World's First App Built For Children of Immigrants.
Every major language app was built for tourists and business travelers. None of them were built for you the kid who grew up hearing a language at home but never learned to speak it back. Roots walks you through your own history, not a textbook's.
Start with an ordinary day lived in your language: wake up, walk to the spring, learn the words exactly where they're used. Answer real questions about what you just lived through. We're the only app in the world that teaches African languages properly Acholi, Igbo, Yoruba, Dinka, Kinyarwanda, Somali. And our reach goes further still, from Dari and Farsi to Samoan, Tagalog, and Bahasa Indonesia.
Learning French or Brazilian Portuguese? Our RootsLocal feature teaches you to sound like you're actually from Marseille or Rio, not like a textbook.
Built for children of immigrants. Built for you.
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Connect, rebuilt. Three doors now: Explore, Friends and the Leaderboard. Friends shows who is online and how their week is going, and lets you message them, challenge them to a game, or send motivation and kudos.
Compare stats. Pick a friend learning your language and share a "who's more tapped in" card straight to your story.
One streak for your whole account. Any language counts, the flame lives in the top bar, and the app tells you before a streak ends or when a freeze has saved it.
Feedback from your profile: request a language, report a bug, or just tell us what you think.
Also: ten new card prompts, smoother cards, chimes you can actually hear, the leaderboard shows faces and medals, and a stack of fixes.
The developer, DANIEL ISHIMWE NGABO, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Sensitive Info
- Other Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- DANIEL ISHIMWE NGABO
- Size
- 230.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Daniel Ngabo
