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Yorùbá,
together.
Everyday words and conversations you can bring into everyday life. A gentle first step for beginners and the people learning with them.
Start the cards ↓Your eight-session guideLook. Recall. Reveal.
Make the words your own.
Try an answer before revealing. Say it with a fluent speaker if you can. Ẹ adds respect when addressing an older person; it also serves as a plural pronoun.
Full university dialogue, including morning greetings. Other cards do not yet have individual word recordings.
Recall marks are your own assessment, not a pronunciation score. Progress stays in this browser when storage is available.
Small steps, real conversations
Eight sessions. Your own pace.
Spend 5–10 minutes together. Repeat a session whenever you need to; there is no deadline.
Put it into practice
Which word or phrase fits?
Choose the answer for each situation. The practice follows your selected topic. Afterwards, practise a real exchange with someone.
Hear the language
Listen. Pause. Say it again.
“Ekaaro” is commonly typed without marks. Here we teach Ẹ káàárọ̀ with the letters and tones shown. Listen to the greeting dialogue, then repeat the morning greeting.
Start at normal speed to hear the natural rhythm. Slower playback helps you notice sounds; return to normal speed when repeating.
Open original lesson ↗Recordings: Fehintola Mosadomi / Yorùbá Yé Mi, COERLL, University of Texas at Austin. Original, unedited lessons linked from the university media server for this free educational pilot. CC BY-NC-ND. No endorsement implied.
Morning greeting · Ẹ káàárọ̀
Ẹ is the respectful or plural address. káàárọ̀ is the morning greeting. Say them together as a greeting; avoid replacing the Yorùbá vowels with English sounds.
Listen once. Pause and repeat three times. Greet your learning partner, then ask them to check your vowels and pitch. The spelling “Ekaaro” will still find this card in search.
These marks indicate pitch level, not English-style stress. Listen to the tones lesson; musical notes alone cannot demonstrate complete word pronunciation.
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Listen & learn
Let a voice lead the way.
Listen to the university lessons above. Individual recordings for all 67 cards are still pending fluent-speaker review; we do not substitute an English voice for Yoruba.
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This is a free learning pilot, a growing beginner pack, not a complete language course. Try it with your household. Could you recall a greeting without the screen? Were the cards clear? Which words or recordings would help next?
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Vocabulary and respectful greetings were checked against Yorùbá Yé Mi, Chapters 1–4 and 8 · University of Texas at Austin. Exercises and session prompts are original to this pilot. Family and regional usage can differ. Tone marks and the letters ẹ, ọ and ṣ matter; these cards do not replace listening practice or fluent-speaker review. No institutional endorsement is implied.