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Help with Bolo!

Last updated: September 9, 2026

Bolo! helps you learn to speak an African language out loud. You listen, you say the phrase, and the app scores how you said it. It is published by LARK Software.

This page answers the questions people ask most. If yours is not here, write to us and a person will read it.

Getting help

Email Hello@LarkEnterprisesLLC.com. Tell us the language you were learning and what happened. If something went wrong on a particular phrase, say which one.

We answer in English.

Which languages does Bolo! teach?

Ten: Amharic, Egyptian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Yoruba and Zulu.

The first zone of every one of them is free, in full, with no trial and no card. You do not have to choose a language before you can try it.

The app is not hearing me

Bolo! needs the microphone. If you refused the permission when you first recorded, the app cannot ask again: turn it on in your phone's settings, under Bolo!, then reopen the app.

Scoring runs on our servers, so a recording needs a connection. On a weak one a take can take a few seconds to come back.

Subscriptions, and how to cancel

All-Access and the Family plan are subscriptions. If you subscribed on a phone, the subscription belongs to your App Store or Google Play account, and that is where it is cancelled: your store account, not inside Bolo!. We cannot cancel it for you and neither can we see your card.

Refunds are handled by the store you bought from, under its own policy.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, from inside the app, on any device. It takes about fifteen seconds and nobody has to approve it. The account deletion page shows the steps and says exactly what is removed and what is kept.

Is the wording in my language correct?

Sometimes it is not, and we would rather you told us. Bolo! was written with care and it has not yet been checked by a speaker of every language it teaches, so a phrase can be stiff, over-formal, or simply wrong.

If you find one, email us the phrase and what it should be. Corrections from speakers are the single most useful thing anyone sends us.

Privacy and terms

The privacy policy explains what we collect and why, and the terms of service cover the rest.