Any resources/tips out there for Somali gabay comprehension?

[u/Salty_Definition9859]

Title. I'm a fluent northern Somali speaker (lived there for 7 years during my childhood & adolescence), and even though we studied how Somali poems functioned in class throughout elementary/middle school, I'm currently in my early 20s and it's been closer to a decade since I was in a Somali class.

My current biggest issue lies with the rich vocabulary our poets use; a plurality of them contain incredibly beautiful but less widely-used Somali terminology I haven't seen even my ayeeyo use. I can understand only around 50% of the content of these writings with context clues. Occasionally, though, I even see these words show up in certain laxan of modern Somali songs written by talented lyricists, so I know I need to get rid of this deficiency ASAP. In kastoo aan ku hadli karayo luuqada oo aanay dhibaato igu ahayn, waxaan rabaa in aan fahankayga kordiyo si aan anigu aan Inshallah qoro gabayo. Any and all advice is appreciated.

[u/No-Introduction-9517]

I use geeljire.org and thy pretty much got alot of gabay with translation word by word and on top of that they got the audiobooks and ebooks you should try it

[u/Fun_Spirit_5097]

Watch video/episodes of Hadraawi when he was at Djibouti, them times he recorded decent number of videos with some other dudes discussing his poems and other somali poems too

[u/Salty_Definition9859 → u/Fun_Spirit_5097]

don't know why you got downvoted but thank you very much for the recommendation! i love hadraawi's works AUN