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Yoruba

Everyday Sites for Yoruba Language Learning (Ajara Jagne)

Alaroye onlinetv

https://www.youtube.com/@Alaroyeonlinetv

This is a channel that is dedicated to preserving Yoruba culture and history. This could be a great place for a learner once again to learn about the core ethics and values of Yoruba culture.

 

BBC Yoruba

https://www.bbc.com/yoruba

This site is helpful to a learner as it has world news and local Nigerian news in Yoruba. This allows a learner to engage with their everyday world through the Yoruba language. This also allows one the opportunity to review grammar structure and how Yoruba words can be put together in a standard way.

 

Dominion Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/@DominionBroadcast

This is a fairly new station in Ibadan, the city deemed as the heart of Yoruba culture, that reviews contemporary topics all in Yoruba. This is helpful to a learner as it immerses the learner in Yoruba contemporary issues and interests

 

Oruko mi

https://www.oruko-mi.com/

This is a site that has the meanings of Yoruba names. You type in the name, and then you get an in-depth translation in English of it. This would be helpful to a language learner as Yoruba names reflect much of Yoruba culture and are an essential part of having a solid understanding of the language.

 

Yoruba Lessons with Aderonke

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeMRh6t30vwcEuZYZIcurQ

This is a YouTube channel that goes over Yoruba grammar, history, and beliefs in depth with a Yoruba speaker who also has an online interactive platform for those who want to learn Yoruba. This would be important to a language learner as it allows them the opportunity to have a stretch of videos that go over fundamental topics in the Yoruba language learning without having to locate texts to do so.

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