Learn Fulani online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~948 hrs

Fulani is spoken by about 40 million people. All the Fulfulde and Pulaar varieties across some twenty countries pooled, which is why counts of Fula vary so widely.

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Twi, Somali and Tsonga. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
FulaniMiummotolaw
EnglishIwake upearly
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,000 sentences works like this.
40 millionspeakers
2,000real sentences
1,327patterns discovered
~948hours from English
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Real Fulani sentences from the course

Jokku e amen.
Join us.
Finnugo!
Wake up!
Njaafo mi.
Forgive me.
Mi weltiima.
I am happy.
Miɗo waawi lummbaade.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Fulani sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,327 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 948 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Fulani from your own language

Most apps only teach Fulani through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

EnglishFrench

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Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.