Zohar
A bilingual library · East African languages

Read in your heritage language, with English beside it.

Zohar Investments is a bilingual language-learning library for East African languages. Every title is a parallel-text ebook with native-speaker audio — across Swahili, Luganda, Kinyarwanda, Acholi, Lusoga, and other regional languages.

8

East African languages

240+

Bilingual titles

Parallel

Text on every page

Native

Audio for every title

How the library works

Four pillars of paired reading.

Parallel text, native audio, structured methods, and editorial difficulty grading — designed to take serious learners from intermediate to literary fluency in East African languages.

Parallel-text ebooks

Every title displays the original language and a faithful English translation on facing pages — toggle, hide, or pace as you read.

Native-speaker audio

Every title includes full native-speaker audio at multiple speeds, with regional variants noted where accent and dialect matter.

Difficulty grading

Editorial difficulty grading aligned to CEFR (B1–C2) — so you choose titles at the right edge of your fluency.

Heritage speaker path

Reading paths designed for diaspora returnees and heritage speakers reclaiming a family language they heard but never learned to read.

Read the books you've been meaning to read.

Pick a single language library, an annual all-language pass, or a structured method. The work scales to your learning ambition.

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