AfriTongue

Dele Tech

About this app

AfriTongue — Speak Your Mother Tongue
African languages are disappearing. Every day, fewer children grow up speaking their mothertongues fluently. Parents speak English at home. Grandparents watch their grandchildren grow up unable to understand them. A language that took thousands of years to develop can disappear in a single generation.
AfriTongue is fighting back.
Built in Kenya 🇰🇪, AfriTongue is the first app dedicated to preserving and teaching East African mother tongues through interactive lessons, fun games, cultural music and pronunciation guides. Whether you grew up hearing your mother tongue but never learned to speak it properly, or you want to reconnect with your cultural roots, AfriTongue meets you where you are.

LEARN YOUR LANGUAGE
Structured lessons take you from complete beginner to confident speaker. Learn vocabulary, sentences, grammar and pronunciation through a carefully designed curriculum. Each lesson is short enough to complete in minutes but powerful enough to build real fluency over time.

Bukusu — the language of the Luhya people of Western Kenya
More languages coming soon

PLAY AND LEARN
Learning a language should be fun. AfriTongue features three addictive games designed to build vocabulary and translation speed without feeling like studying:

Word Rain — catch falling words before they hit the ground
Meanings — match words to their correct translations at speed
Fill Letters — complete the missing letters in mother tongue words

Each game gets harder as you improve, keeping you challenged and engaged every session.

SONG TRANSLATIONS
Music is the heartbeat of African culture. AfriTongue brings you full translations of African songs — hear the song, read the lyrics in the mother tongue, understand every word in English. Suddenly songs you have heard your whole life take on completely new meaning.

Listen to the audio while reading along
See every lyric in the mother tongue with English translation side by side
Understand the cultural context behind the words
Watch full video explanations for selected songs

STAY MOTIVATED
Daily streaks keep you coming back every day
XP points reward your progress
Hearts system keeps lessons challenging
Continue learning picks up exactly where you left off

FREE TO START
Download free and start learning immediately. Your first lessons, your first game and your first song translation are completely free. Subscribe to unlock the full AfriTongue experience.

Monthly subscription — flexible, cancel anytime
Yearly subscription — best value, save over 40%
Lifetime access — pay once, learn forever

PRESERVE. LEARN. SPEAK.
Every word you learn is a word saved. Every lesson completed is a thread of culture preserved. Every song translated is a story kept alive.
Download AfriTongue today. Speak your mother tongue.
"Lugha yako. Utamaduni wako. Maneno yako."
Your language. Your culture. Your words.

What’s new

Learn to speak your african mothertongue like a native through lessons and games.