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I’m a Xhosa speaking person and I must say this is helpful because I keep bumping into people that ask me to teach them isiXhosa and this is a great reference I can share with them
I just started my first isiXhosa lesson right here with you. I am 60 years old and keen to learn to speak fluently by the end of this year. I will keep checking with Xhosa speaking friends whether I'm on the right track. Thank you Khanyi
Amapiano bright me here. I want to learn this beautiful language so that not only I can understand the words, but as a producer, I would like to begin to create amapiano music myself. You all ROCK!!! Uthando oluninzi oluvela eMelbourne Florida!
Thanks so much, this is exactly what I needed. I have a colleague here in Germany called Xolelwa from south africa and I really wanted to be able to pronounce her name better. Thanks for helping me practice!
Please make the series longer! There are so few Xhosa lessons out there that are helpful and guide you to make the right pronunciation and you are helping me so much. Thank you Khanyi!
Hi Roselle. Thank you for your comment. Im posting new videos weekly now, every Wednesday morning. Check those out! Also let me know if you have any specific video suggestions 😉
I am so happy I found this channel. Since I got "unofficially" invited to be part of the clan and given the name Latswa I have felt it my duty to learn the language. I could only find reading courses but I need to focus on speaking and pronouncing. Also, it is a bit awkward sitting quietly in an hour-long family meeting not knowing what is being said. Thank you Khanyi for these
Thank you soooooo much from Washington, D.C., U.S.A.! I have thing to make these sounds and you just made it simple and understandable! I am trying so hard to learn this language! thank you!
I certainly miss the time at Langa / Capetown. I was fascinated experiencing live and language over there before the COVID-19 actions forced us back to Germany abruptly. Hope to visit again soon.
So I just found you because I decided to treat my Wakanda fandom no different then any of my other fandoms... If I can learn some Klingon for Star Trek, some Elvish for Lord of the Rings and so on, I can most certainly learn some Xhosa! Both because of my love of the idea of Wakanda and the love of my beautiful people. Proud to be African.
This got a instant subscribe, I've been looking for a class or app to help me learn to speak Xhosa but to no avail until I discovered this series of video lessons. I'd like to thank you for taking the time to record these lessons they are greatly appreciated.
This is SOOOOO GOOD and so very needed. Sometimes we give out here on RU-vid, but please let us know if you ever do private classes as I would LOVE to take a course with you on learning this beautiful language. Please don't stop. We need you!
Brilliant, that was VERY helpful! I've been wondering for years how these sounds could be pronounced - perfectly logical and doable the way you explained it. Thank you! 🙏
I love the way you have put the clicks in. This makes it a little bit easier to pronounce most of the words that I had been finding difficult to pronounce. Thanks a lot.
I've been struggling to learn isiXhosa for a while now and just found your channel, thank you so much for doing this! Such a valuable resource, enkosi 🙏
African diasporans in America use several of those clicks when we’re being sassy/animated. We describe it as “sucking our teeth,” “kiki-ing,” etc. Hearing the “q” sound is reminiscent of the sound a young black girl makes while rolling her neck right before cussing someone out hahaha.
Nice, explanation, it's actually kinda doable. I was wondering how you whisper in this language. I can only make these sounds rather loud as an absolute beginner.
Hi Khanyi. I am starting with my first lesson. I am working and staying in a Xhosa speaking area. Thanks for this platform. I enjoyed lesson one and please keep up the good work.
You teach very well. I started learning again. I learned basic Zulu 20 years ago so I have some foundation for Xhosa. The vowels and the clicks in Xhosa is interesting wow
This woman is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is NO way..... absolutely no way I can do the Q sound....... been trying for days now, no chance to make the Q sound loud like hers...
LOL That Xhosa 'kr' sound still remains with the Afrikaans-speaking Coloureds in Western Cape areas like Piketberg who still pronoune r's exactly like that. (This is quite a bit North from Cape Town, Cape Town being where you find a lot of the more Asian Coloureds) e.g the word road is pronounced kroad.
Thanks for this video! After you explained the c, q and x I thought: I have this... but *then* you inserted the others... wow! That would take some getting used to. It's a beautiful language, though.
Wow fascinating! How do you say the clicks with the vowels I find myself sucking air in to do the click & exhaling air out to say the vowel, creating a gap in the sound 😅
I can mke the clicks alone but it's so difficult to put them in a word 😅 I hope I will learn something , I've lived in SA for an amazing year but didn't find anyone willing to teach me. Thank you so much, maybe one day I'll be able to come back to your beautiful country
I’ve added the Q click to my business name and I suspect some people don’t get it. It’s the exotic vibes for me. I will use it to get clients to click.
For the x click you say to suck in - but how can you suck in air and simultaneously exhale for the accompanying a, e, o etc. sound? Do you mean suck in cheeks or tongue or what? Could you clarify in the comments please?
Hi Bruce, good question. It's quite tricky to explain cause as a native speaker I'm used to it and you kinda do both. So first try practicing the x sound with your mouth closed, clenched teeth and yes suck air from your cheeks. Then try bringing in vowel sounds also with mouth closed and from there it might be easier...Hope that helps 🙂
Xhosa and Zulu are both classed as nguni languages, they are quite similar. Xhosa and Zulu are similar enough to be considered dialects of one language. Therefore, Xhosa and Zulu people frequently understand one another, even if they are each speaking their mother tongue. Both languages have "clicks" but IsiXhosa language have more clicks than IsiZulu.
Hi Kelsey. Aah, just keep practicing 🙂 Not very similar...The Q is made with tongue at roof of mouth/front teeth. You have the slap the tongue pretty hard and try open mouth wide...Hope that helps🙂
anyone feeling that this language is extremely hard Another episode of how foreigner talk would help us all lool (i am not criticizing the language, it do sounds very beautiful and of course different)
I speak IsiZulu and a light version of IsiXhosa because of living amongst them. I concur that it is hard but not like you can't learn it if you put an effort into practicing everyday. I suggest that you get the Tandem app and you'll find native speakers to practice with. This remains one of the most beautiful languages in this country by far.
I haven't gotten to putting many sentences together but it seems VERY easy because, being an English speaker, the letters are the same. I can see them and know how it sounds easily. And all I have to remember that's different are the clicks, which aren't foreign sounds to English speakers. We hear them growing up. We make them all the time. And all we do here is add a vowel attached.
