YƐMA WO AKWAABA!

LEARNAKAN.COM is a community-based e-learning website dedicated to helping you to read, write, and speak Akan, the most-spoken indigenous language in Ghana, West Africa. The site was set up in June 2016 and officially launched on July 17, 2016. 

You can learn with our free lessons, or sign up as a premium member. As a premium member, you enjoy a structured, interactive learning experience with our month-to-month sets of courses. Each course level features weekly lesson sets made up of videos, texts, quizzes, assignments, downloadable PDF notes and audio for offline learning, etc. You achieve points for your efforts, and earn a certificate for each course level you complete to encourage you on. And you don’t need to worry about where you left off the last time because the platform keeps track of that for you. We have lessons on the very key aspects of the language, i.e. pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and reading & comprehension.

Once you sign up, you will be able to update your profile page, add other members as friends, send them private messages, post to their timelines or tag them in your posts, start or contribute to various discussions, ask questions, post to the community feed and check out other members’ posts, take lessons, attempt quizzes, track progress, achieve points for your efforts, etc. all on this platform!

We have members from different parts of the world, with different proficiency levels. Members are encouraged to take advantage of this diverse community by building healthy relationships from the start, which will go on to foster easy private practice arrangements.

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FOUNDER

My name is Stephen Awiba. You may know me here as Tikya Yaw. I am the founder of LEARNAKAN.

I was born and raised in Kumasi, the capital of Ghana’s Ashanti Region, where Akan (Asante Twi) is spoken as the first language.

In addition to acquiring the language from home as a child, I studied Akan as a school subject at both the basic and senior high school levels. My interest in how the language works later led me to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Ghana, where I took several Akan-related courses. In 2014, I moved to Norway to study for an MPhil in English Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, graduating in 2016 with a thesis on humour in Akan dramatic discourse.

I have always been fascinated by the structure and depth of the Akan language, and I’ve long enjoyed sharing the little I know with anyone curious to learn, or at least willing to listen. What began as informal sharing gradually grew into a commitment to provide learners with a structured, accessible, and practical way to study the language, which led to the creation of LEARNAKAN.

Which Dialect of Akan?

At the moment, all lessons on this website and on our YouTube channel, the contents of our books, and all entries in our online Twi dictionary are based on the Asante Twi dialect of Akan. Asante Twi is the most widely spoken dialect of the Akan language.