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African First Words Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About African First Words

If you want to start learning your first words in an African language then you should install African First Words now. African First Words teaches you to say 135 essential words each in 12 topics. Below are the topics you will learn in each language.

1. Numbers
2. Colours
3. Shapes
4. Fruits
5. Food
6. Animals
7. Human body
8. Clothes
9. Things at home
10. Transport
11. Nature
12. Vegetables

In African First Words you will learn 8 African languages including Hausa, Igbo, Swahili, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba and Zulu. Even though the app can be used by anybody it is more suitable for children with it beautiful drawings and animations.

African First words uses beautiful drawings to teach you how to say all the words. All the words are voiced by native speakers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. You can listen to the words normally or you can listen to them slowly so that you hear them properly.

African First Words uses beautifully drawn animated fun games to help you retain what you learn. Each topic includes a corresponding game where you help a bird get to its nest, a giraffe to eat leaves from a tree, a donkey to drink water in a stream and a bee to find a flower. These games will engage and help you to learn all the words.
You can also check your score to know how you are doing from the game stats or go to the Game Center and see how you compare to other people playing the games.