How to improve my Somali if I'm already fluent?

[Som]

I'm diaspora Somali but I'm fluent in af Soomaali. I can read and write it well , I speak it with zero accent and close to native vocabulary in everyday speech. I'm able to speak almost like a native to the point people may think I was born back home. My only issue is songs and poetry. When I listen to some Somali songs I understand 60-70% and there are so many words I've never heard used in common speech. The fact there aren't many translations makes it difficult to acquire new words

 

[Sa_Male]

I'm diaspora Somali but I'm fluent in af Soomaali. I can read and write it well , I speak it with zero accent and close to native vocabulary in everyday speech. I'm able to speak almost like a native to the point people may think I was born back home. My only issue is songs and poetry. When I listen to some Somali songs I understand 60-70% and there are so many words I've never heard used in common speech. The fact there aren't many translations makes it difficult to acquire new words

If you weren't born back home how did you learn in the first place? I'm curious

 

[abdi_]

Yeah am curious too
Do you just watch Af-Somali media?

 

[Aseer]

I'm diaspora Somali but I'm fluent in af Soomaali. I can read and write it well , I speak it with zero accent and close to native vocabulary in everyday speech. I'm able to speak almost like a native to the point people may think I was born back home. My only issue is songs and poetry. When I listen to some Somali songs I understand 60-70% and there are so many words I've never heard used in common speech. The fact there aren't many translations makes it difficult to acquire new words

I heard poetry is very hard since it is mainly complex and classical somali not your everyday words you use on the street.

 

[Abu Hesi]

gotta improve Somali Vocabs sxb

 

[Testo 21]

I wasn't born in the west, when i listen to songs or poetry its get harder to understand.

I have same problem. Somali language need grammar books there hardly no documentation either.

 

[Som]

If you weren't born back home how did you learn in the first place? I'm curious

When I was born My Parents were new to the country and didn't know the local language so they spoke in Somali all the time

 

[Som]

When I was born My Parents were new to the country and didn't know the local language so they spoke in Somali all the time

Especially my mother , even though she learned the local language till this day she speaks to me almost exclusively in Somali

 

[Xariir]

Listen to Islamic books being taught in Somali especially utilizing the Laqbo system. The Ulama were at the forefront of protecting and increasing the quality of the Somali language in order to teach the complex Islamic and Arabic sciences.