Until now the topics have been nouns: things you can point at. Activities introduces verbs, the words that turn a list into a language. With just these ten, a child can give and follow instructions all day: cun (eat), cab (drink), seexo (sleep), ciyaar (play), akhri (read).
Tap a card for the meaning, examples and a native recording.
The forms taught here are the command forms, the way a parent speaks to one child. That is deliberate: it is the form children hear most, and it is the shortest form of the verb, so it is the easiest to learn first. Longer forms, like "I am eating" (waan cunayaa), come later in the app's Express Emotion and Small Talk lessons.
Each verb has an illustration and native audio, and the app quizzes them by picture, sound and matching.
10 entries in the Activities topic, each with a picture, native-speaker audio and a quiz in the app.
Yes. Every entry on this page plays a recording by a Somali speaker; nothing is synthesized.
Tap each word to hear it, say it back together, then take the Activities quiz in the Luuqad app.
Orod, Soco, Dabaalo, Dheel, Bood, Cun and more. Then take the quiz in the app.
