The first AI-powered app to teach Mandinka, Susu, and Pular through voice. No textbooks. No flashcards. Just you and the language, the way it was meant to be learned.
Oral languages are learned through sound, not text. Kahn teaches the way your family would — by speaking with you.
Hear a word spoken in Mandinka by a real voice. See the image. Understand the meaning before you ever try to say it.
Say it back. The AI listens to your pronunciation and scores you in real time. No typing. Just your voice.
An AI teacher guides you through each lesson. It adapts to your level — patient when you struggle, challenging when you're ready.
"Which food is your favorite? Say it in Mandinka." Real dialogue, not multiple choice. The way language actually works.
The dominant African language models — Meta MMS, AfriHuBERT — were trained on Bible recordings under non-commercial licenses. You can't build a product on them. The vocabulary is religious. The cadence is liturgical. The audience is 85% Muslim.
The Kahn Model is trained from real speech — how people actually talk about food, family, greetings, and daily life. Recorded by native speakers. Commercially licensed. Owned by us.
Kahn means sound in Mandinka. It also means language, it could also refer to your neck. It depends on how you use it. Sound is language.
# Every other model
Sound → Text → English → Text → Sound
# Tone lost. Meaning lost. Culture lost.
# The Kahn Model
Sound → Meaning → Sound
# Tone preserved. Hearing = Language.
languages = [
"Mandinka", # 11M speakers — ZERO language apps
"Susu", # 2.5M speakers — ZERO language apps
"Pular", # 40M speakers — ZERO language apps
]
license = "commercial" # Not CC-BY-NC. Ours.
trained_on = "real speech" # Not Bible recordings.
Mandinka, Susu, Pular — 53 million speakers combined. Zero apps to learn them. Zero courses. Nothing.
Meta and Google trained on Bible recordings under non-commercial licenses. The vocabulary is wrong. The license blocks products.
Real-time speech scoring, AI teachers that adapt to your level, voice synthesis that sounds natural. None of this existed two years ago.
We're launching with Mandinka first. Susu and Pular coming soon. Join the waitlist to get early access.