Author: Iftiin Learns
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Essential Somali Vocab: Days of the Week in Somali
Soo dhawow to another post in the series Essential Somali Vocab helping you learn more Somali along with me! In this post, I hope to help learners like me learn the days of the week. Before we get started, let’s recap the words day, today,yesterday, tomorrow, week, month and year…
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Level Up Your Somali: Birthday Edition 🎂
Want to know how to talk about birthdays in Somali? Here’s my handy list of new words to help you get started! Like this vocab list? What should I do next time? Let me know! Nabad gelyo!
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10 Somali Phrases Beginners Need To Know To Have Their First Conversation In Somali
If you are interested in learning Somali, here are some helpful conversational phrases you can learn to get started! Are there any phrases that you didn’t know? Let me know in the comments below! Interested in a free, handy pdf version of this blog with extra bonus phrases? Comment down…
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Top 20 Common Somali Verbs to Master
Looking to learn Somali? If you are a beginner, you can learn some of the basic and commonly used verbs here! Hope this verb list helps! Did you know that the verb fikir and aqri are of Arabic origin? If you want to learn more Arabic loanwords, you can check…
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What type of language learner are you?
In this post, I’ll be decoding different motivations for learning a new language and why someone might decide to take it up as a hobby. Understanding your motivation is crucial if you want to have success in your studies and become fluent long term. Of course, people can have many…
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Essential Somali Resources: All the Youtube channels you can use to learn Somali!
Having been on my Somali language journey for some time now, I have seen Youtube turn from an arid desert of Somali language resouces into an almost flowering garden! There aren’t a lot of channels specialising in Somali compared to other languages and a lot of these channels are intended…
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Essential Somali – Learn the names for colours in Somali
Always wanted to learn the names of the colours in Somali? Then this post, with another amazing vocab list is for you! Where possible, I’ve included different words for the colours. Hope this helps! That’s it for this post and good luck with your language learning!
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Expand Your Somali Vocabulary: Essential Words for Common Places
In this blog post, I want to help increase your Somali vocab and give you a list of words which you will find very handy. Here you can find a list of common places, and their translations into Somali. Please note that for a lot of these words, I’ve used…
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Essential Somali Verbs with Examples for Beginners
If you are starting your Somali language learning journey, you might find this post useful! Here are some commonly used verbs in English, translated into Somali. A verb is a type of word conveying an action (Xassan ate with his sister, Farhixa drives her kids to school). In Somali, the…
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10 Random Somali words that have Arabic roots
As I am learning both Somali and Arabic, I thought I would share some Somali words that are derived from Arabic. This is not an exhaustive list and it is not arranged in any particular order – it’s completely random. You might wonder why so many words used in Somali…
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Why I’m learning the Arabic language
The Arabic language has a long, rich history. Here is why I’m interested in learning a language spoken by over 300 million people. أهلاًأ and welcome to my second post! In this post, I’ll be exploring why I’m learning Arabic! As a busy, full-time student, you may be thinking that…
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My favourite Somali language resources
If you are interested in learning the Somali language, here are some resources that you can use to start today! These are resources which I am currently using and I really like. Hope this helps with your own studies. 1. Best textbook If you need somewhere to start your Somali…
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