Pulaar

Six free lessons to get started with Pulaar. Unlock everything else with one purchase, no subscription.

Learn Pulaar, the language of the Fula people, spoken by more than 40 million people across West and Central Africa. This app lets you hear every word. Tap a text or an image, listen to the pronunciation, read the translation in French or English. Nothing to type, nothing to guess. WHAT YOU LEARN Illustrated pronunciation guide, including the letters unique to Pulaar: Ɓ, Ɗ, Ŋ, Ñ, Ƴ The complete alphabet, letter by letter Greetings for each time of day: subaka, beetawe, kikiiɗa, jamma Meeting people and introductions Numbers Days of the week and months of the year Market and trade vocabulary Everyday words and expressions Fula proverbs, with translations PRACTICE Dictation and translation exercises get you writing Pulaar yourself. A built-in keyboard gives you the characters ɓ, ɗ, ŋ, ñ and ƴ, which standard keyboards don't have. 352 AUDIO RECORDINGS Every word, phrase and proverb has been recorded. The app works offline: everything is already on your device. FRENCH OR ENGLISH Choose your interface language when you start. The translations follow. FREE TO START Three lessons are free: the pronunciation guide, days of the week and months of the year. A single purchase unlocks all the others and removes advertising. No subscription. BUILT ON ACADEMIC WORK The learning content was created by Professor Lamine THIAW of the Polytechnic Institute at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, with Malick THIAW as co-author. Published by Niitan SARL in Dakar, Senegal. Whether you have Fula roots and want to reconnect with your parents' language, live in West Africa, or are simply curious about one of the continent's major languages, this app takes you from the very first words.