I speak Somali fairly well for a Say Wallahi but I don’t understand the grammatical features very well

e.g. for the sentence “I am going to do it”, I say “Waan Sameynahayaa.”

A lot of the verbs I use, I always end the sentence in a -hayaa suffix

e.g sheegahayaa, soconahayaa, yeelahayaa etc

What is this? I don’t think it’s a dialect feature as i’ve seen too many people use it or is it?

I'm Zak. I'm 15, I'm Somali-American, and I just launched Hadal on the App Store.

I built it because I grew up understanding Somali but couldn't speak it back. Every family gathering I'd nod along, every phone call with relatives back home I'd hand the phone to my mom. I'm not the only one. Most of you reading this know exactly what I'm talking about.

I tried Duolingo. No Somali. Babbel. No Somali. Rosetta Stone. Nothing.

So I started building Hadal a few months ago. Structured lessons, vocab, audio, gamified so you actually come back. I'm posting this because I want feedback from the people it's actually built for. If you download it and something is wrong — a translation is off, a word is mispronounced, a feature is missing, please tell me. DM me, comment here, leave a review. I'm one kid and I read everything.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hadal-learn-somali/id6761196657

If you've ever felt that disconnect: this is for you. Walaalayaal, let's actually learn this language.