🇳🇬 The best YouTube channels for learning Yoruba

Nearly three hundred videos covering pronunciation, vocabulary and the proverbs that carry a great deal of Yoruba's meaning. The attention to vowel sounds and tone is the important part: Yoruba is a tonal language written with tone marks that most learners ignore, and ignoring them produces words you did not intend.

A large catalogue of bite-sized lessons, useful as a reference to dip into. Yoruba has almost no structured commercial courses, so channels like this carry a disproportionate share of what exists — take the volume and supply your own order.

Covers the written system before the vocabulary, which is the right order for Yoruba: the diacritics are not decoration, and a learner who skips them ends up unable to read anything written properly. Around ninety videos.

A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.