Iftiin Learns

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Category: Language Learning

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Words you can find in Somali music

    As any language learner knows, listening to music is a fun way to enage with the dhaqan (culture) of the language! Somali music is very much based on a rich tradition of poetry and storytelling but learners may find older music more difficult to understand due to the complexity of…

  • 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…