NKYEA TWI PRIMER As we are in the forefront of the Twi language learning software market, we have always tried very hard to make the beautiful Akan language easy to learn through modern technology. Nkyea Learning Systems was the first developer to publish a Twi audio phrase book app called Nkyea Twi Phrasebook on the Apple iPhone mobile device. We are following this up by bringing Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE In Ghana you hardly hear people counting numbers in Twi, except when they are doing transactions where the range is 0 to 10. With numbers greater than 10, most people switch to English. It is only during Twi programmes on the radio or when you visit places like Kumasi and Sunyani that you hear people saying huge numbers in Twi. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE Do you know how to properly pronounce all the Twi words you come across? If you don’t, don’t worry at all. There are a lot of extremely fluent Twi speakers who can’t read or write any Twi. This is because Twi is more of a spoken language than a written one. Twi is written with a script developed by the Bureau of Ghana Languages.

In order to be able to read in any language, you much know its alphabet and digraphs before you even start learning the basic grammatical rules. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE If you have been on our Facebook page or our Twitter account lately, you would have come across posts that begin like “5 dress accessories you should know in Twi” or 5 animals you should know in Twi”. This is proving to be very helpful for beginners because it is educative and fun to learn all these things. Read more …

MISCELLANEOUS As you may know, Nkyea Learning Systems develops and sells an iPhone app for learning to speak the Asante Twi language, called Nkyea Twi Phrasebook – you can read about how we make it here, or see it on the App Store here. From user feedback it seems that a lot of people find our app very useful and a lot of fun in learning to speak Twi and have given it raving reviews on the App Store. Read more …