School words matter twice in the diaspora: once for talking about the child's weekday school in Somali, and again for the weekend Somali or Qur'an school, the dugsi, that many families attend. Macalin (teacher), buug (book), qalin (pen) and laylis (homework) come up in both.
Tap a card for the meaning, examples and a native recording.
This is a compact topic of nine words. Several have Arabic roots, a reminder of how much of Somali learning culture has travelled through religious education: macalin, fasal (class) and qalin all arrived that way and are now thoroughly Somali.
In the app the School lesson is part of the Out & About unit, and teachers running Saturday schools use it as a warm-up vocabulary set.
9 entries in the School 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 School quiz in the Luuqad app and play Tap the Word.
Macalin, Buug, Qalin, Saaxiibo, Laylis, Fasal and more. Then take the quiz in the app.
