Speak your language,
five minutes a day.
Yiga is a warm, gamified way to learn Luganda — real greetings, proverbs and market phrases, native pronunciation you can record in your own voice, and it works even offline.
Why Yiga
A language app built for Uganda
Five minutes a day
Bite-sized lessons and a daily goal that fits a real schedule. Build the streak, keep the habit.
Made for real networks
Offline-first, tiny and fast on low-end Android — with a data-saver mode so tight, expensive data is never a blocker.
Your own voice
Record the trainer in your own Ugandan accent in the Recording Studio — it plays back in every lesson.
Real Luganda & culture
Not a phrasebook. Literal glosses, proverbs and culture notes — why a greeting asks how you spent the night.
Gamified & fun
XP, streaks with freezes, hearts, badges and a weekly league keep you coming back.
Smart review
Spaced repetition resurfaces the words going weak, so what you learn actually sticks.
Proudly Ugandan
Real phrases, with the meaning behind them
Every phrase comes with its literal sense — the part that makes a course feel authentic instead of like a tourist phrasebook. Learn greetings, family, numbers and the market, one small lesson at a time.
Start the Luganda courseOli otya?
How are you?
Wasuze otya?
how did you spend the night?
Webale emirimu
thank you for the work
Ssente mmeka?
how much is it?
Start with Luganda
The flagship course is live now. More of Uganda's languages are on the way.
Yiga olulimi lwo — learn your language
Five minutes a day is all it takes to start speaking. Weebale okuyiga.
Start learning