I’m very happy this app exists! I do know that there is a huge gap in the language learning community for African languages to fall through (i.e. other apps prioritizing languages that already have a bunch of resources). And so far, I feel this app will help bridge that gap. It’s easy to use. Pleasing to the eyes. So far I haven’t run across any bugs. I’m not African myself so I’m not the best to judge the accuracy with the pronunciation, but like with anything there is room for improvement and I’m excited to see what this app can grow into. I’ve already shared about the app on my socials in hopes that more people will join and help be apart of any improvements that can be made. And just in hopes that more people take a serious look at African languages and how rich they are. I’m excited to keep using and improving my knowledge of the languages and culture of Africa! :)

I have been using this app for a few weeks now. There were some bugs but overall the content was very helpful. The bugs included audio that did not match, lessons that were unlocked before re-locking, and some answers being incorrect by being mismatched. However after every single lesson there was a 45 second wait time to ask if you want to purchase a membership to turn off ads. The only ad was this incredibly annoying one to just waste your time and incentives paying. I would have considered subscribing if it were on a timer like every x Min or after x amount of lessons and a shorter wait. Not every lesson and 45 second counter. To make things worse I just updated and now it says i must pay in order to get lessons that I already started. I can not access anything I did passed first 4. Their website I downloaded from says this is free “learn African languages at no cost.” Not a monthly subscription or unlock all lessons for $20 or all languages and stop their one relentless ad for $30. Looks like someone is getting greedy or false advertising. Things like this is why the community has trouble. Cut it out. There are other ways to make money even with the app, instead of stopping a persons ability to learn if they cannot spend on it. this is a bad decision. You cannot see the amount of lessons in the rest of the app without buying in case you wanted to check if it was worth it to you. The first few ranged from 2 lessons to 11 for each topic. Again the content was very good so being blindsided is so disappointing.

I think this is a very good idea. However, for the yoruba language, what the translator is saying out loud is not the same when it is spelled out for some words and phrases. I am not sure if this has to do with the translator translating the yoruba with a more conversational version of yoruba than the grammatically correct one, but you end up linking the spoken translation to the written translation and those do not match up. I would also like to redo some lessons, and I don’t have an option to do that. Other than that great job!

First, I’ll say that I haven’t checked more than Mandarin and Swahili, and only a little bit of either. Swahili pronunciation seems ok, but not perfect. Mandarin pronunciation on the other hand, is absolutely horrible. The sort of horrible that made me wonder if they were actually trying to say alternate words for the words that I knew were correct. Additionally, the very first sentence was wrong, because no native Mandarin speaker ever says the equivalent of “Hello. How are you?”, since the words for “hello” and “how are you” are the same in Mandarin, with one small addition at the end. If you learned their horrible pronunciation and combined that with their wrong wording, there is no way that you would ever be understood. Additionally, no Chinese language appears to be supported or even mentioned on the developer’s very brief website. For these reasons, I’m not going to take the chance of learning the wrong thing, by using this app, for any language.