Akeeko - Yoruba for kids: Recent Episodes
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As a Yoruba mom living in diaspora, I have seen many of our children associate negativity with the Yoruba language because parents tend to only speak Yoruba whenever they are angry or giving orders to their children.
My aim is to change this narrative by providing fun and simple learning resources which will encourage parents to normalise the speaking of this beautiful mother tongue of ours with their children.
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This episode is about the 'Months of the Year' in the Yoruba language. We also get to learn another fun song, how exciting!!! More details are available in our activity books. Available to purchase on Amazon (see links below):
Workbook https://amzn.to/3enfWsd
Colouring https://amzn.to/32CegG4
Happy listening!
Today’s episode is all about the most important part in learning to read and write the Yoruba language. Using tone marks give the reader the exact words being used in that sentence because we have words that are spelt the same way but have different meanings with different tone marks.
There are 3 tone marks used in the Yoruba language, which are placed on the vowel in the pronounced syllable
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Low tone Do ()
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Middle tone Re (_) and
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High tone Mi (/)
Using the word ‘igba’ as an example to describe how tone marks change the meaning of a word:
igba (re re) which means two hundred
igbá (re mi) which means calabash
ìgbà (do do) which means time period
ìgbá (do mi) which means garden egg
As always, this is described in more details in our activity book ‘Alifabeeti Yoruba’. See below links to get our children activity books on Amazon:
Workbook https://amzn.to/3enfWsd
Colouring https://amzn.to/32CegG4
This episode is about the “Days of the Week” in Yoruba plus we get to learn a song! You can refer to our workbook which are available to purchase on Amazon, see below links to get our children activity books on Amazon:
Workbook https://amzn.to/3enfWsd
Colouring https://amzn.to/32CegG4
This episode is about the alphabets of the Yoruba language, giving examples of words for each one. The examples provided are taken from our workbook which is available to purchase on Amazon, see below links to get our children activity books on Amazon:
Workbook https://amzn.to/3enfWsd
Colouring https://amzn.to/32CegG4