Learn Dholuo online, free, the way it’s actually spoken

Structured Dholuo lessons you can read for free, interactive practice with a free account, and real speaking practice on Echo.

How it works

Work through free, structured lessons: greetings, pronouns, tenses, noun plurals, idioms and more.

Create a free account to unlock interactive exercises and check what you’ve learned.

Answer the daily Dholuo prompt or post your own recording. Other learners listen, and a native Luo speaker reviews how you sound.

5 lessons, starting with Personal Pronouns in Dholuo.

5 lessons, starting with Numbers and Counting in Dholuo.

5 lessons, starting with "To Be" and "To Have" in Dholuo.

5 lessons, starting with The Past Tense with Ne and Nende.

5 lessons, starting with Doubled Verbs: The Simple Tense.

5 lessons, starting with Must and Until: Nyaka.

3 lessons, starting with Idioms with the Verb Goyo.

Every lesson is free to read. No paywall on learning the language.

Plain-English explanations of pronouns, tenses, plurals and negation.

Luo names, greetings and idioms, with context on when people actually use them.

Check your understanding with quizzes, free with an account.

Take what you learn and say it out loud, with feedback from native Luo speakers.

Lessons work on your phone, tablet or laptop, wherever you are.

Begin with Chapter 1 and create a free account to unlock the interactive exercises on every lesson.