Almost no Awadhi is made for learners, so the Awadhi you read and hear at first comes from a few places. Look for comprehensible input, which is Awadhi you can mostly follow, where the new words are clear from the rest of the sentence.
Courses and chat apps are in our full Awadhi app comparison.
Bubblegum
For serious learners, Bubblegum is the best app to learn Awadhi. You learn from Awadhi you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.
Say you want to talk about food with your relatives. Poppy, your AI tutor, writes an Awadhi lesson on it at your level, and the words you save return in new lessons.
- Pick a topic and a level, and Poppy writes the Awadhi to match.
- Each lesson has AI audio to play while you read.
- Tap a word to see what it means, or ask Poppy to explain a whole line.
- You can read in Roman letters while you learn the Devanagari script.
- Regenerative Review™ brings saved words back in new lessons.
- Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.
- You can't turn your own Awadhi books into lessons. However, you can paste a page in the chat, and Poppy will explain it.
- The lessons use everyday Awadhi as it is spoken around Lucknow, Ayodhya, Sultanpur and Rae Bareli, so a book from another place may spell or say a word differently.
- Custom lessons cost us money to make, so you need Bubblegum Pro for unlimited custom lessons. Lessons Poppy wrote for other learners are free for everyone to read.
- Regenerative Review™
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Bluebird
Bluebird teaches spoken Awadhi, so it gives you a lot to hear. Play a lesson once, and then play it again while you say each line aloud.
- 2,000 pre-recorded video lessons, each 15 to 45 minutes long, where you listen and repeat.
- Quizzes test your listening, reading and writing.
- Lessons can be narrated in any of 146 languages.
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Other Apps We Looked At (1)
- TalkpalAI chat and speaking practice in Awadhi, with feedback on pronunciation, plus flashcards and grammar exercises. Its page says you can try it for free.
The Awadh Project is a website by Pankaj M, who is from the Awadh region. Its pages on common sentences and everyday conversations are a place to start: read one out loud, and read it again later in the week.
Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, and Hindi Wikisource has an edition of it to read. It is a long poem, so pick a few lines and look up only the words that stop you.
We didn't find graded readers, children's books or a news site written in easy Awadhi. For now, custom lessons and recordings give you the Awadhi to read and hear.
| What You Can Follow | Try This | You're Ready to Move On When |
|---|---|---|
| Single words | A Level 1 lesson in Bubblegum, after the Awadhi Letters course | You read a short line aloud and know what it means |
| Short sentences | A Level 2 lesson in Bubblegum, with the translation hidden | You can retell it from memory |
| Spoken Awadhi, one line at a time | A Bluebird lesson | You can repeat a line without the text |
| Everyday sentences | Common sentences on The Awadh Project | You can say a sentence to someone who speaks Awadhi |
| Poetry | A few lines of the Ramcharitmanas on Hindi Wikisource | You can say what the lines are about |
Menus in your language don't always mean Awadhi explained in your language, so try one lesson before you pay.
| App | Languages You Can Use It In | Full List |
|---|---|---|
| Bubblegum | 74 | Supported language pairs |
| Bluebird | 146 | Full list |
| Talkpal | 51 | Full list |
Which Awadhi app should a beginner choose?
If you are serious about learning Awadhi, start with Bubblegum. Poppy, your AI tutor, writes lessons at your level about things you like. If you'd rather listen first, try a Bluebird lesson and repeat each line.
Do I need the Devanagari letters before I start reading?
For the poem and the sentence pages here, yes. Bubblegum's Awadhi Letters course teaches them with pictures and sounds, and you can read in Roman letters while you learn the script.
Is there news in easy Awadhi?
We didn't find a news site written in easy Awadhi. Ask Poppy for a lesson on a topic you already follow, and try Awadhi sentences about it.
Is Bubblegum free?
Yes. Lessons Poppy wrote for other learners are free for everyone to read. Custom lessons cost us money to make, so you need Bubblegum Pro for unlimited custom lessons.
Sources
- Bubblegum: Awadhi
- Learn Awadhi. Speak Awadhi. on Google Play (Bluebird by Pronunciator: 2,000 lessons, listen and repeat, narrated in 146 languages)
- Bluebird: the 164 languages you can learn, including Awadhi
- Bluebird: FAQ (what Premium adds)
- The Awadh Project: home page (common sentences and everyday conversations)
- The Awadh Project: Awadhi is the language of the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, now written in Devanagari
- Hindi Wikisource: Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas
- Talkpal: Learn Awadhi
- Talkpal on the App Store (languages you can use it in)
