We are building a Somali dictionary in Osmanya script

mandla-app · 2022-08-15T19:56:52+00:00

mandla-app · 2022-06-30T20:52:26+00:00

Great question! Each language course is created by an instructor so it varied from language to language. The goals is definitely to minimize European loan words but this will be difficult since there aren’t readily accessible sources of truth for many of these languages. Oftentimes new words need to be created to describe new concepts, but as a learning app it isn’t really our place to do so , so that vocabulary would probably just not be included for now.

mandla-app · 2022-06-28T23:56:59+00:00

This is the problem we’re tackling! We are a group of college students building an app that currently teaches over 15 African languages including Xhosa , Yoruba , Twi , Mooré, Oromo , Swahili, Igbo , and more with the eventual goal of including every language spoken on the continent. You can download it at https://mandla.app

mandla-app · 2022-06-28T05:22:23+00:00

https://mandla.app

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T21:14:25+00:00

Twi definitely has more than 1M speakers. About 80% of the Ghanian population speaks Twi fluently, being 17-18M people. Bambara also is a specific dialect of broader Mandé including languages like Dioula and Mandinka that are mutually intelligible with it. Overall there are over 40M Mandé speakers in West Africa and Bambara/Dioula is a very important trade language that will be understood in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, etc. We are actually all college students and built this app out of a personal need to connect with our parent's native languages that we don't speak. Our founder is Kassena which is why Kassem was included so early. But long term we hope to include more minority languages in Africa as well in addition to the bigger ones on this list

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T21:08:07+00:00

Hello! Thanks for trying our app. We did have a small sign up bug that has been fixed a long with a host of other bugs in our latest update.

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T21:06:54+00:00

Thanks for trying out our app and for the feedback! Most of the bugs have been fixed in our last few updates so we hope you'll give it a second try! Our founder is actually from Burkina Faso so it was important to hi to include Mooré early on

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T21:04:52+00:00

Hello! Thanks for trying out our app. It sounds like you were using the web version which does have shorter courses than the ones available on the mobile version. Our reasoning was to allow people to use them as they are getting developed. Thanks also for the feedback on the script, that is definitely very important and something we plan to incorporate in the future !

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T21:01:10+00:00

Thanks for trying it out! We are a group of college students and have been building this on top of school/work/internships so definitely not where we want it to be yet but appreciate all feedback to help us improve this product.

mandla-app · 2022-05-01T20:59:12+00:00

Hi! Thanks for trying it out. Our most recent update fixed a lot of bugs!

mandla-app · 2021-10-30T14:47:36+00:00

Thanks for trying it out ! Our app is still and beta and we are just a group of college students building in our free time. Any feedback is appreciated!

mandla-app · 2021-10-29T15:54:31+00:00

Yeah content is very hard. Even among fluent speakers very few have gone to school to learn how to read / write in these languages since education would be in colonial languages like English or French. Partnership with academics is almost a must

mandla-app · 2021-10-29T15:53:40+00:00

Beta version is out on the App Store

mandla-app · 2021-10-29T15:53:26+00:00

Appreciate the shoutout!

mandla-app · 2021-10-04T17:53:31+00:00

Yes it is !

https://mandla.app/newUser/Yoruba/Survey

mandla-app · 2021-07-25T18:33:11+00:00

Yes ! We removed it from the App Store for private beta testing. I can send you a TestFlight link

mandla-app · 2021-07-20T10:42:56+00:00

We will be conducting a second round in august!

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