Asụsụ Ọma FAQ

Yes. Every lesson, folktale, game, recording and speaking practice is free, with no ads, no subscription and no paywall. Asụsụ Ọma is made by Ebenezer Don, and he keeps it free for everyone.

Yes. Asụsụ Ọma is a native Android app on Google Play, with home screen widgets and daily reminders. On iPhone and iPad it installs from Safari to your home screen and runs full screen, offline. It also works in any browser. One account keeps your progress on all of them.

From your first greeting to advanced Igbo. There are more than 600 guided lessons in seven stages: greetings and sounds, home and family, the market and daily life, tone and longer conversations, reading and writing, ceremony, oral literature and history, and finally professional Igbo, literature and translation. Grammar and tone are taught in the lessons.

Yes. The Igbo dictionary has more than 800 word pages, each with the meaning, a syllable guide, a native speaker saying it and example sentences with audio. In the app, you can tap any Igbo word in a lesson or folktale to see what it means and hear it.

Yes. The Igbo in the lessons is recorded by native Igbo speakers, and every recording has a slower replay so you can catch each sound.

Yes. Record yourself saying a phrase and play it back beside the native speaker to compare. Conversation practice puts you in everyday scenes where you hear someone speak and choose your reply.

A whole games room, all built from the words you've already learned: Memory match (Chetakwa), Lightning round (Ọsọ ọsọ), Falling words (Okwu na-ada), Masquerade (Mmanwụ), Letter pot (Ite mkpụrụedemede), Sentence bridge (Akwa mmiri), Market run (Ọsọ ahịa), Talking drum (Ekwe). Wins earn cowries, which dress Nkọ.

Complete beginners, people who grew up hearing Igbo and want to speak it, diaspora learners without an Igbo-speaking partner nearby, and families learning together.

No. A short placement check finds your level, or you can start from the beginning. Review brings back the words you're about to forget, wherever you start.

A word of the day, a daily goal you choose (10 to 45 minutes), day streaks with streak freezes, and Market day: three small tasks each day. Reminders come on your phone if you want them.

No. Name recording is optional. You can skip it and continue. The browser asks for microphone permission only after you choose a recording action.

Sign in with Google to save your learning choices, settings, learning progress, and exercise history to your account. Signing out doesn't delete information already saved there.

Yes. Once you've opened Asụsụ Ọma, lessons you've visited keep working without a signal, and your progress syncs when you're back online.

Asụsụ Ọma uses Google Analytics with first-party analytics cookies to measure page visits, learning actions, and site performance. Analytics events don't include your learning answers, voice recordings, name, email address, or account ID.

For signed-in learners, an account-linked diagnostic can include the route, browser, app build, lesson, activity, prompt, submitted answer, tutor or speech request context, sync state, and technical error. This helps the administrator reproduce problems. Passwords, authentication tokens, API keys, and payment credentials are excluded.