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
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