Forest edge

Èdè Yorùbá

The language of home, proverb, and praise.

Beginner Intermediate Professional Kids yard Eré Òwe

Yard school

A short path a child can clap.

Yoruba uses three tones. The same letters can mean different things if the voice goes high or low — like a song.

Open the kids yard

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Ọ̀wọ̀ — respect

The professional register: elders, please, pardon.

Please and pardon Ẹ does the work of respect. Leave well Close a visit the way a guest should.

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Iṣẹ́ — work and school

Meetings, teachers, the longer sentence.

The workplace Work, teacher, meeting, paper. The longer phrase I think, because, but, perhaps.

professional · wisdom

Òwe — the court

Òwe lẹ́ṣin ọ̀rọ̀ — a proverb is the horse of speech. Elders still ride it. If a form is wrong, send a correction.

Òwe — the court Speak them as an elder would. Òwe · sitting 3 The court sitting. Òwe · sitting 4 Last of the professional shelf.

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Ìrìnàjò — travel

Road, bus, ticket — leave and arrive.

On the road Ask the way like an adult.

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Ìwé ìjọba — official talk

Name, paper, true — the desk that asks.

Papers The sentences a form still needs.