The Three Xhosa Clicks taught easy! 

"Exhale those vowel sounds" is the most helpful advice I've heard for the clicks. I always felt like I was holding my breath before. 😂

You have just managed to explain sounds which are almost the hardest for any non-African speaker in such a simple way! And with your examples like "horse-riding click" and so on, I realized I had at least heards these before as interjections and /or have used (or still use) them in my daily life, lol :D (I'm European). It's not the matter of "OMFG what are these sounds?" but rather the fact that you can incorporate them into an actual language/speech.

I give up. My tongue is exhausted. Lol

Great teacher you are! Thanks from an African American woman from the US. I've been interested in Southern African click languages since I saw Shaka Zulu years ago, when it first debuted in the 80s. It seems Zulu is the easiest click language to learn, with Xhosa and Kung being the hardest, for me at least. It took me forever to learn how to correctly pronounce Henry Cele's name with the dental click! 😂😂. I wish more tribal languages like Native American tribal, African tribal, and Asian tribal languages were taught here in the US. I find them fascinating and pleasing to my ears.

This just helped me a lot. I'm American but I want to learn the Xhosa language.

Amazing, i’m just blown away by this language

X ✔️ C ✔️ Q ❌ I need to pratice more Edit: I finally learned the Q click

This is mind-blowing. I am so impressed at hearing these sounds being part of an actual existing language!

Thanks a looootttt... I wanna surprise someone that I love... He speaks xhosa and I wanna learn his maternal language... I am Brazilian and my problem is click sounds... Thanks again...

Thanks so much. I never really realized I playfully used all of these clicks as a kid. I find the X-click to be the most difficult in combination with vowels (especially the i-sound), so thank you for the practicing tip. Been practicing them for two days and already getting a lot better.

I'm xhosa, u doing great brother but there's a difference between 'Xha and Xa' e.g. ixhala - anxiety Xaxa - mix There's a slight difference in pronunciation.

yoh Im xhosa and I live in Asia. I was teaching my british and Japanese Friends the clicks. they were really inspired to see a white dude thats able to do these clicks. enkosi bafo

I'm learning them clicks at 3am like im flying to RSA tomorrow lmao.

I am Xhosa...You are good

I teach world history and was trying to learn how to pronounce Xhosa. This video was so helpful! Thank you!!!

haha i had sooo much fun with this video! Made the clicks with you and laughed out loud at how silly i must sound to my German roommate. Great job though!

Just gotta master this and throat singing and I will fulfill my dream of throat singing The Click Song.

Mad respect for you my brother. You know my language more than some of my people here on RU-vid. You should be teaching them. Bayethe kuwe ndoda yamadoda.

I've never commented on youtube before and have been on here since it was created, but I literally yelled out loud "oh that is SO much easier!" when you taught the C clicks. I've been trying to teach myself and was doing that click on kinda both sides of my mouth or tongue to teeth instead of one. I'm so happy I found this channel! Thank you!!!

When I was a kid I heard the song "Pata Pata" and since then had been trying to sing it, but could never quite get it, or find anywere to learn how to pronounce those click sounds. I'm so happy I found this! Thanks, great informative video!

Awesome - my grade 3 class is having a language week right now, and this is a really great help for me as the non-isiXhosa speaking teacher!

I have always been fascinated by languages such as Xhosa that have the clicks and I've always always wanted to know how to do them. This was super helpful and informative. And very much thank you to all the Xhosa people in the comments who helped clear up some discrepancies in the video too, y'all were really helpful. And I'll be honest the only reason I found you is a long long trail of trying to find accurate pronunciation for the Zulu portion of the Circle of Life and learning that Nqoba had a tongue click and not knowing how to make that HAPPEN. But damn man if I ain't glad I did. Mad props.

I can do the clicks individually but following it with the vowels is something I really gotta work on

this is the best language on planet earth

The C-click is used where I'm from to express annoyance (like a deep type of annoyance that's usually reserved for family members, when you've reached someone's limit of patience). So every word with a 'C' sounds like someone's scolding someone :)

I have learnt many languages, but this is by far the interesting one I respect most 👍👍

Funny, in Egypt we make these sounds and we're totally unaware that these are letters. "X" is for making donkeys move, C means NO (friendly) and Q as a funny sound

Taking college course...this is the introduction. Me: immediately gets up and leaves. You're amazing, by the way

You are actually pretty good at the clicks.

Love it! Uxhosa isiXhosa samaXhosa, esi siXaka amaXhego xa'exoxa ingxuba yikaXaka!

Well done to this xhosa teacher

NDILAMBILE, SYLVIA! NDICELA UNDIPHE UKUTYA!!! 30+ years in the 'states, and it stills rolls off my tongue. And 30+ years in the 'states, and my heart still aches for our beloved Sylvia (and her world's BEST samp 'n' beans...)

Thank you so much! I've just seen a video of someone speaking Xhosa and I wondered how he moved his tongue to make sounds like that. Now I know it's humanly possible to do that! It isn't as hard as I thought it would be. Very interesting, thank you.

I have to learn IsiXhosa for my medicine course and I was really struggling with the X, until now. Thank you so much for this!! You are really great and nice to look at which made it that more fun haha so thank you

You are a brilliant teacher!!

This is the easiest to understand of the click videos I've watched. Thanks! I hope you make more Xhosa tutorials.

You're a great teacher. Thank you

Awesome descriptions and explanation. Thank-you!

Boy this is hard for me, and I speak 4 languages. You are an excellent teacher, many thanks! Now I understand how it's done!

OMG! I always marvel at people's ability to make those clicking sounds because I just can't! Alyssa Edwards could speak this language so easily!

This is an excellent lesson! Thank you so much :)

You teach really well. Thank you.

Thanks a lot for your video! It helped me to pronounce the three Xhosa clicks!

Great video!

The X sound is what i make to imitate a lizard stuck to a wall

Thank you for an easy, fun lesson on such a unique language

Best explanation. I keep coming back to this video. Very clear, good teaching with practice and examples. Thank you.

Sharp! Good lesson thanks.

You did a great job, that was really helpful! Thank you so much

I'm subbing and will be learning Xhosa. I'm so pumped. Thank you

You nailed it bro!

Fascinating.

Enkosi. I really enjoyed this video!

🎉OMG I am sooo excited! i L💝VE your video! Four years since Miriam Makeba was popular, I have wondered how to make the clicks in the XHOSA language because I find the language so 💞LOVELY! You make it so easy!!! I’m curious to know how you learned the language? You make it sound so beautiful, and after your explanation quite easy….well…. Easier than I ever thought possible. MERCI INFINIMENT 🤗 🙏🏻Continue maki g videos🎉!

My language will never be this cool. 😭

WOW! insanely awesome, you nailed them all😊😊😊

Awesome stuff, thanks dudes.

Excellent instruction.

Thank you for the great educational video!

I love this.

This was very helpful!

Thanks for the good lesson man, love from Iceland :)

I am starting to like Xhosa because of this guy 😉

You are awesome!!

so amazing!!! 🇧🇷

This is great!

You click so beautifully. 💕

Curious American here. Thank you for the lesson! :)

Many, many thanks for this! I'll be practising this for a while so I pronounce it properly for my coming video!

By far the clearest explanation, thanks so much!

This is such a fun lesson

Not sure why I'm here tbh, but having fun! Thanks!

Thank You For this.

You explanation was nice

Thank you so much.

Thanks bro I needed this

Your: xa xe xi xo xu sounds like Xha xhe xhi xho xhu. Yoh ca ce ci..... Spot on.

i’m here cuz of black panther, did any else already know how to click but just watched cuz it’s so cool to hear this language♥️😂😂

Thx am xhosa african child am still learning clicks in 2024

You explain very well :)

C is easy for me thanks for teaching me 😊 and x. Q is harder but I managed to get it after a while of repeating fast

I'll refer people to you when I'm teaching Click words in my Xhosa lessons

Thankyou this is exactly what I have been looking for

Hi there, can you please make a video of how to pronounce the "hl" sound in Sala Kakuhle and Hamba Kakuhle? I've been trying and trying and asking lecturers to help me with it, but I just can't seem to get it right.

Dude! This tutorial rocks!

very goood explanation THX

This is a beautiful language.

This was really helpful boss

amazing video, dude!

That is such a beautiful and unique language. Unfortunately I'm not able to make some of those sounds.

Hace poco descubrí este idioma y me fascina! Lo explicas muy bien. Saludos desde Argentina 🦋

Thanks man.. I'm getting it.really want to know this language

Very good, Very nice.

Years ago, I had a university professor explain the three Xhosa tongue clicks to me over the Internet. It was chat, without sound. The click on the side of the mouth was first described, "as when you are annoyed." I'm not South African, so I wasn't familiar with that habit. It was in a South African radio chat room where most people chatted in Afrikaans. Later the South African radio stations quit their chat rooms, due to possible stalkers. I chatted there for 10 years and learned Afrikaans, at least for reading and writing. I try to listen to Radio Sonder Grense in Afrikaans on the Internet, but it is difficult. The reading and writing was fairly easy after 10 years of Afrikaans chat.

Impresionante el idioma

Ngeba ndiyancoma nto nje ufaka uhahazo apho lungangeniyo. ukho umahluko phakathi ko "Xa,Xe,,Xi,Xo,Xu" no "Xha,Xhe,Xhi,Xho,Xhu"... Ngokunjalo ku "Q" no "C"

You are very intelligent.

Thanks so much so nice explanation ...cheers

Its good thank you for a lesson🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Thank you I teach language/reading classes and this is a brilliant closing activity, teaching English of course lol