Lingala – A Complete Lingala Resource

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Lingala – A Complete Lingala Resource

Learn Lingala

Welcome to our website to learn Lingala. Lingala is one of four main languages spoken mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (sometimes called DRC, or Congo (Kinshasa)), as well as parts of the Federal Republic of Congo (Congo (Brazzaville)) and Angola.

To understand how to use dictionaries correctly in Lingala, please look through this helpful article: Using the Dictionary.

Basics

The Alphabet and Phonemes (Sounds)
Syllables
Greetings and Introductions
Basic Sentence Structure

Verbs

Introduction to Verbs
The Verb ‘to have’
Important Verbs – Part 1
Imperative ( -á )
Infinitive ( ko- )
Present ( -i )
Future ( -ko- )
Past ( -aki )
Recent Past ( -i )
Habitual / Continuous ( -aka )
Distant Past ( -á )
Subjunctive ( -a )
Verb Extensions
Reflexive ( -mi- )
Passive ( -am- )
Reciprocal ( -an- )
Causative ( -is- )
Applicative ( -el- )
Reversive ( -ol- )

Vocabulary

Vocabulary – Part 1
Vocabulary – Part 2
Vocabulary – Part 3
Vocabulary – Part 4
Vocabulary – Part 5
Vocabulary – Part 6
Vocabulary – Part 7

Lesson Exercises

Conversations Practice

Basic Conversation
A Conversation about Families
A Conversation about Work

Numbers

Basic Numbers
Complex Numbers
What Numbers Should I Use?

Nouns and Pronouns

Pronouns
Introduction to Nouns
Noun Prefix Classes (Plurals)
Abstract Nouns

Adjectives and Adverbs

Basic Adverbs
Basic Adjectives
Adjectives and their Plurals

Prepositions

Basic Prepositions

Questions

Basic Questions
More Questions

Difficult Words

Using ‘moko’ and ‘liboso’
The Comparative Verb ‘-lek-‘
The little word ‘te’
The verb ‘to lack’
The words ‘ete’, ‘kasi’ and ‘elongo’
Doubling
Using ‘nde’ and ‘ata’
How to use ‘-sil-‘ and ‘-silis-‘
Using ‘-ling-‘ and ‘-ut-‘ in idioms

Kids Learn Lingala

Mbote! Hello! (Lesson 1)
Me, you and them (Lesson 2)
What are you doing? (Lesson 3)