Lessons
Learn Afaan Oromo from the ground up with our structured lessons. Start with the basics and progress to advanced topics at your own pace.
Book Unit
Unit 1: Telephone Conversation
Learn vocabulary and grammar related to telephone conversations.
Unit 2: At a Restaurant
Learn vocabulary and phrases for ordering food at a restaurant.
Unit 3: Hirna
Learn vocabulary and grammar related to directions and comparisons.
Unit 4: Magaalaa
Learn vocabulary related to the market and adverbs of time.
Unit 5: Dukaana
Learn vocabulary for shopping and how to form negative present tense.
Unit 6: Mana haaraya (kutaa 1)
Learn vocabulary related to a new house and grammar for past tense and coordination.
Unit 7: Wal gaafii
Learn about compound tenses and verb coordination.
Unit 8: Jiruu baadiyaa (kutaa 1)
Learn about rural life, passive verbs, and the reciprocal pronoun "wal".
Unit 9: Mana haaraya (kutaa 2)
Learn more vocabulary for a new house and about reflexive pronouns and preverbs.
Unit 10: Mana dhukkubsataa
Learn vocabulary for the hospital and about causative verbs and the preverb "ol(i)".
Unit 11: Shaggar
Learn about relative sentences, dative, instrumental, and ordinal numbers.
Unit 12: Warra Liban
Learn about the Liban family, plus adjectival verb formations and arithmetic.
Unit 13: Ballama
Learn about appointments, compound sentences, and conditional clauses.
Unit 14: Jiruu baadiyaa (kutaa 2)
Learn more about rural life with a focus on agentive nouns, abstracts, and noun compounds.
Unit 15: Hojii filaccuu
Learn vocabulary about choosing a job, along with intensive verbs and periphrastic negation.
Unit 16: Mana jaaruu
Learn about building a house, including vocabulary and basic geometry terms.
Unit 17: Seenaa Oromoo (kutaa 1)
The first part of a series on Oromo history, covering origins and social structure.
Unit 18: Mana barnootaa
Learn vocabulary and phrases related to school and education.
Unit 19: Afaan Oromoo
A lesson focused on the Oromo language itself, its dialects, and its importance.
Unit 20: Amantii Oromoo
Learn about the traditional Oromo religion, focusing on Waaqa and prayers.
Unit 21: Sirna Gadaa
An introduction to the Gadaa system, the traditional Oromo system of governance.
Unit 22: Seenaa Oromoo (kutaa 2)
The second part of the Oromo history series, focusing on the "golden age".
Unit 23: Buna Qalaa
Learn about the Oromo coffee ceremony, an important cultural tradition.
Unit 24: Seenaa Oromoo (kutaa 3)
The third part of the Oromo history series, discussing colonialism and the struggle for self-determination.
Unit 25: Mana postaa
Learn vocabulary and phrases related to the post office and sending mail.