How to Learn Igbo: A Free App With Real Igbo Voices
September 19, 2026 • 0 minute read •
Igbo is my language. If you've ever tried to learn it, you already know the problem. The big language apps don't teach Igbo. What you find instead is a scattering of word lists, a few videos, and PDFs that give you spellings with no idea how any of it sounds.
That gap is why I built Asụsụ Ọma, a free app to learn Igbo. It's taken countless nights.
My own language is losing speakers
Igbo has tens of millions of speakers and it is losing them, a little more with every generation.
I built this so that the Igbo language and culture can live on. A language survives when the next generation can reach it, and right now there is almost nowhere to learn Igbo properly.
What's in it
Guided lessons. Short ones, about ten minutes. They run in order along a path so you never have to work out what to study next, and each one ends with something you can say.
Real Igbo voices. Every phrase is a recording of a native speaker, mine among them, not a synthetic voice. Tone changes meaning in Igbo, so a wrong tone is a wrong word. Behind the lessons there are over a thousand such recordings, each tied to a word page with its tone-marked spelling and the sentences it's really used in.
Games. Igbo games built to reinforce what you're learning.
Folktales. Igbo stories like Mbe na Udele, read aloud by native speakers, with any word tappable for its meaning and pronunciation.
There's an Android app on Google Play, and on iPhone it installs to the home screen straight from the browser.
Everything in it is free, and it stays that way
No ads, no subscription, no premium tier, no lesson locked behind a payment. Every lesson, game, folktale and recording is yours from the first day.
A language survives when the next generation can reach it. Putting Igbo behind a paywall would shut out exactly the people who need it most.
Who it's for
Anyone who wants to learn Igbo, at home or abroad: children, grown-ups and whole families. It starts from the first greeting either way.
If that's you, or someone in your family, it's at asusuoma.com.
