Complete Yoruba Language Course

Begin the complete Yoruba language course with an introduction to the Yoruba language and an overview of its history across the module.

Learn the Yoruba tone marks, starting with the do low-tone mark written top left to bottom right, and understand how the three tone types affect pronunciation.

Explore Yoruba tonal marks, focusing on the do and re pitch tones, using do re mi pitch notes, dash notation, and word examples to read tones in Yoruba words.

This lecture introduces Yoruba tone marks, focusing on do and re pitch tones, including the mid pitch ray mark, and shows how dash notation signals marks with word examples.

This lecture explains Yoruba pronouns—from subject, object, and possessive forms, including emphatic pronouns—using clear examples for singular and plural, and demonstrates replacing pronouns with nouns.

Discover how Yoruba verbs, defined as actions, can appear before or after nouns, with practice using common verbs.

Explore Yoruba adjectives, or bijou, and how they describe nouns, typically after the noun. Learn color adjectives with examples like yellow, red, brown, and green, and basic noun-adjective structure.

Explore Yoruba adjectives and how they describe nouns, covering color adjectives, size terms (big, small, long), and quantity forms (few, many), with usage in example sentences.

Explore Yoruba adverbs and how they modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, then learn their types: manner, place, time, and frequency through clear examples.

Solve two challenges by crafting ten Yoruba adjectives and applying them to described objectives. Then build sentences using adverbs of place and time, with translated examples from the lesson.

Learn Yoruba prepositions and how they show a noun or pronoun position, including ni and ne, and three forms to express on, under, inside, outside, and side.

learn Yoruba prepositions by exploring position words like on top, inside, outside, and beside with practical examples. discover origin with c to express where from and practice.

Explore Yoruba conjunctions that join two or more sentences to express meaning, with frequent examples and guidance on placement to build fluent Yoruba sentences.

Learn Yoruba domestic items and vocabulary building by naming house items, furniture, living room devices, and kitchen items, then form simple sentences using verbs with nouns.

Master Yorùbá sentence structure by combining nouns, verbs, prepositions, and adverbs. Build vocabulary with domestic items like ely (house), yara (room), and layla (floor) through practical examples.

Explore Yoruba vocabulary for common fruits and foods, learn how to form sentences around them, and practice translating phrases while noting borrowed English names and cooking verbs.

This lecture presents Yoruba body parts and their Yoruba terms, from head ori and eyes uju to neck on and chest iya, guiding learners through body vocabulary in Yoruba.

Learn to write a Yoruba self-essay and letters by answering key prompts—name, age, country, state, where you live, favorite food, color, occupation, and sport—using Yoruba punctuation and clear sentences.

Explore informal Yoruba letter writing (letter BFA) with steps such as address, date, salutation, purpose, and closing, illustrated by an elder brother example.

Learn to write Yoruba formal letters with sender address on the right, dates, receiver's address, salutation, title, purpose, closing and signature; includes example requesting travel permission.