Xhosa Tongue Twister Lesson in South Africa - Very cool!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Xhosa lesson by Nelson Sebezela, guide for Calabash Tours in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, interviewed by Patrick Leighton. Filmed and edited by Silvio Marchini.
I just want to hear a huge argument in Xhosa...
+Emilios Gregoriou They tend to talk over each other when they're excited, so normal conversations can sometimes sound like arguments.
+Brennan T Then what do arguments sound like?
+A Turn In The Game Of... Sounds like a bunch of DotA players in temper and a big mess.
+brenna T i speak xhosa..u soo right about that.. we just click click ..talk talk and click again ..even when we swearing we click
Poutanas Malakopoulos it's very entertaining to watch... and I'm xhosa
so they are beatbox master by default, indeed
hehehe ya. Qalapha ndizakwenzela.
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I AM WHEEZINGHGGGGG🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀😂😂😂
Haha yeah those fills and snares, cymbals 😂
i met a nice !xhosa man once. we had a drink and talked for hours in his language...we just clicked
MinGi Song lol I see what you did there
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I didn't see that one coming.
@ MinGi Song - very clever!
Very Under rated comment 😂😂
"Well, I speak Chinese, Japanese, and Korean!"
Xhosa linguist - "Cool story, bro"
I'm just gonna call it. Xhosa is officially the coolest language on earth!
BatChest !
silbo gomero better
I promise 😎😎😎😎
Thank you I'm Xhosa but not from the Eastern Cape
Thank u ❤️🙏🇿🇦
its like he's not even making the sounds!!
Imagine a horse walking and this guy's gonna be like, "TF YOU SAY TO ME?"
@@waqqashanafi bro that's kinda racist
@@itsyourboyberry6825 huh?!
@@itsyourboyberry6825 no sir you need a serious treatment
Please log off from internet and start living in woods
Best wishes to you
@@itsyourboyberry6825 how is that racist in any way
This is my home language. It's interesting to read moments about how others find it fascinating and wanting to learn. Makes be proud to be umXhosa.
I know it's been a long time since you commented but I had a question. What does the "um" mean in umXhosa? Or like "isi" in isiZulu? What do these sorts of things mean? Thanks
@@rennnnnnnnnnnnnXhosa is also known as isiXhosa. not sure about the um
@@rennnnnnnnnnnnn I think it means "person"
@@rennnnnnnnnnnnn 'um' = person. Like a Zulu person is umZulu, a Xhosa person is umXhosa. Isi = the language, eg isiZulu or isiXhosa. kwa = place, like in KwaZulu-Natal (a province in South Africa)
This clicking language is satisfying to me :P
XHOSA
It's so fascinating hearing languages that are so greatly different from your own that when you hear them for the first time it just fills you up with joy!
Wow, its so amazing that white people find our language so interesting, and funny enough, there isnt this much interest from south african whites, but thank you guys for your appreciation, and by the way, its one of 11 different languages in our country and even south african black people of other languages find it difficult to learn, so its ok.
HI henry ngewu. I just sent someone a friend request on facebook with your name. I don't know if it's you as i see a couple more people with the same name. I am a musician/vocalist and am currently learning two songs. If you respond to this message I will have something to ask you. Thanks. If you don't respond and anyone else can speak this beautiful language please respond so I can contact you. Thanks so much in advance.
@@JulietRobin m8 this is 2019
White people is a big generalization. Most people I know only joke around about this African click language.
But obviously if your in a country, you might want to know more about the language or culture from the natives. Doesn't matter if its Zimbabwe, Spain, Italy, Japan, or whatever. I visited Russian and loved learning about the culture and their language, and many beautiful Native Russian women.
It’s a really beautiful and unique language
Be proud of your culture man
I'm an American who spent 3 years in Southern Africa, and I can pronounce most of it, but waaaay slower than that dude. Would love to be able to speak isiXhosa fluently one day
That's awesome!
Can you? 6 years later?
Can you? *7* years later?
Can you? 7 years and 1 month later?
How do you whisper?
LOL HAHA
😂😂😂😂😂😂
+14Tumaini AS far as I know it's impolite to whisper in Xhosa culture. When you are whispering you are talking behind the backs of others. So it is always better to talking loudly and openly to demonstrate that you have no ill intent...or openly express that ill intent.
Ah, I see
Tactical clicks
this has to be the world's hardest language to learn for a non-native speaker.
!xung is more difficult. More clicks and fewer vowels.
aeolian pish. Try other languages with extremely complex sentence structure and grammar. Xhosa is not too hard to pronounce at all in comparison to some of the most difficult to pronounce consonants in the world.
vinyl hedgehog such as?
aeolian it’s actually very easy to learn.
You think IsiXhosa and other Nguni languages are hard? They are Bantu languages. They borrowed their clicks from Khoisan people, such as the Nama, which have like 49 clicks!
Can you Imagine a whole audutorium of people speaking this language at once...Or an Argument in this language.... LOL, LOL
What if you tried to sing in this language? Or whisper?
+A Turn In The Game Of... Watch the click song
It would be a beatbox competition.
There's not a HUGE amount of clicks I don't think. I've just started researching it but there's not clicks in every word. The basic lessons I've seen about greetings ("Hello", "How are you", "I'm fine", etc) don't have any clicks at all.
Hi. There is a famous Song by Mariam Makeba called the click song. look it up.
Absolutely fascinating! Such an interesting language!
Xhosa is an interesting language. It's speech and music at the same time. If the birds could speak, they would speak this way. These clicking sounds are like chirping or a percussion. Every Xhosa speaker is a musician.
but can they whisper in this language?
lol, yes we can. BUT its very hard, have to use soft words which are deep Xhosa words that are hard to understand even to a Xhosa person.
Zervinho A-Z How bout yell really loud?
WHY WOULD WE NOT BE ABLE TO WHISPER LMAO
@@theeNwabisa how can you click while whispering
@@ht.6315 normally...
"Iqaqa" is not "a squirrel", but a Skunk. Otherwise, great video
I love african people, they are always smiling :D
thank you
what will happen if you go around them ?
+European American Vanguard dude I do live around them, in case you don't know. There are tons of African people here and I do have African friends to spend time with as well.
Yeah they're smiling when they're not starving to death.
Because they are lucky to live past age 3
This is a workout for your tongue :P
Next recommended video: Xhosa ASMR
My ability to be super random brought me here.
hah, same
Quirky rawr xd
I'm probably not the only one who landed here because of Good Mythical Morning. :D
This language sounds just amazing.
True,me to
Wow! This language is absolutely amazing and intriguing! I see why it was listed as one of the sexiest languages of S. Africa on Family Feud S. Africa with Steve Harvey.
Chileee it’s all lies🤣🤣🤣This language is aggressive AF😂😂😂😂this is coming from a Xhosa person😂
Trevor Noah is part Xhosa and spoke this language on QI program
i love this guy, he has a great sense of humour
i love all of africa
from an ethiopian brother
@Uu yessir
@Uu lmaoo who is this? let's just say I may or may not be in my early 30s
It’s so interesting seeing people this intrigued by a language I speak on a daily🙆🏾♀️🤣
I want to thank you so much for this video. I'm an English language assistant and I teach my students about South Africa as well. I tell them that if they think English is difficult, they should try Xhosa and I show them your video. They always love it. Thank you so much. It makes me happy every time I see it.
I'm not from South Africa but I teach English abroad and I love this idea! It's always a great way to add in some culture to lessons too. I might just take this idea.
cool language.the sound is awesome lol
When I was in high school, we sang a song in Xhosa and it was really difficult to get those clicks!! It was such a beautiful song, though, so fun to sing.
HOLY SHIT...i love it! the world is such a cool place...i already speak 5 languages but I just wish I could learn all the languages in the world lol
This was torture for me in high school!!! Especially xhosa poetry and essay's!!! 😭🇿🇦 once your pass pronounciation, writing and understanding becomes the issue
Hi, can you suggest some Xhosa poetry? I'm fascinated by it :)
the X click is the most difficult for me, I can do the C and Q click pretty decently. I'm excited to try learning some more words in Xhosa!
im curious about how whispering and shouting sounds in this language..
lol, i'm laughing at your comment because I am Xhosa and i often receive this question from my international friends, they say we sound 'angry' all the time it should be impossible to whisper. Yes its difficult to whisper because you have to replace the clicks with soft words which are deep Xhosa and might results in the person you talking to not to understand what you are saying.
lol.. i dont think the language sounds angry, actually, my question is more about the volume.. Because I dont know if the clicking sounds can be made louder (if you want to shout) or lower, if you want to whisper..
pinup60 Great question, i was just think this. I went through the comment, didn't have to look far.. Thanks...
Warren Murphy
too bad no one answered it, though :p hopefully someone who speak the language will see the comment too, and answer it.. lets hope
@@zervinhoa-z8904 lmao, I speak Spanish from Argentina and other latinamerican countries people used to offend or take it wrong because my accent, but that's because they're not used to to the sound, that's it lol
Nelson: "like this"
(executes flawless xhosa pronunciation)
"can you do that?"
Patrick:
(executes xhosa in the the whitest way possible)
"like that?"
Nelson: "sure, why not."
So...if I accidentally got a hair or something in my mouth and click my tongue to get it out, I might actually be swearing...
nope
You'd be going "xxxxx" or "qqq"
Amazing.Absolutely amazing. I would very much enjoy more of these xhosa to english examples. Thank you for sharing.
"I'm not gonna make it hard for you to repeat them," he says.
Glorious language! I love the example: A squirrel walked to the top of a hill, and decided to roll back down to the bottom. Beautiful beyond description.
"A squirrel went up the top of the hill, decided to roll back to the bottom."
African people are amazing.
I'm trying to learn Zulu, which is sort of like Xhosa with the click sounds, so this video helps a lot with pronunciation.
African languages are fun for linguistic nerds such as myself.
So do you know Zulu now? It has been 11 years since you commented this
Those are Bantu languages.
wow its so difficult but wonderful at the same time.
And I thought French and German were foreign languages - yikes!
what a teacher, thanks brother,
Is it not understandable without the clicking sound?
Dawngaward0110 Probably as understandable as English without the letter "k" or "g". The clicks are consonants in Xhosa, so they're on the same level as other consonants like "s"
Dawngaward0110 No offence, but i laughed SO hard, when i read your comment xD
The words using clicks wouldn't make sense if you didn't click. As Aashil says, it's just normal letters - pronounced in a different way :)
Lmhafu It's actually an extremely advanced language. They say that it is most likely aliens would speak in a series of staccato clicks. They are laughing because YOU don't understand it.
Ginsuma
As i speak isiXhosa my self, I know. Also I didn't say that its not an advanced language, like at all. Actually more the opposite - by saying that you can't simplify the language by not pronouncing the click sounds.
But even english can be hard to understand sometimes, right ? ;)
+Dawngaward0110 No, it wouldn't.. it's like 'take' and 'make'.. it does make a difference if you don't make the clicking sound.. that's called phoneme in linguistics.. :)
when he said "clicks clicks clicks"'
i felt that
I'm Xhosa what's your superpower😊 ?
This language is so amazing! Great video; it's very helpful for a study I'm doing on languages.
Snoooooooooooooooooop!! When the pimps in the grib ma....
Joshua Kampmeier i see what you did there
Wtf is a grib?
That was incredible! I love Xhosa and the other Nguni languages! Could someone who speaks Xhosa please give me a transcription of his 3 example sentences for me? I'd like to learn how to say the tongue twisters but he's speaking too quickly for me to hear what he's saying!
I have read, and can believe, that if you don't learn this as a child you probably are never going to be a fluent speaker - at least not at the usual rate of speech that native speakers use.
Watching and listening to this, it seems like the clicks are coming from somewhere else, not the man's mouth. That's because I'm not accustomed to hearing clicks intermingled with speech.
U can if u stay for 2years in Xhosa area but u can not be fluenf to rural Xhosa is difficult even to urban xhosas they can speak the rural Xhosa for example I can easy see the cape town born bcoz the cape town Xhosa in is not pure Xhosa the r added words n words r spoken in e.c r not used in cpt Xhosa
The language itself is simpler. These are tongue twisters. Even in English, tongue twisters are tricky.
Kwaito is not xhosa rap
>>>here are a couple of xhosa rap songs and artists you should look into
1. Driemanskap- Camagu
2. Kanyi- Ingoma
3. Jargon- Andazi nzoythetha nabani
4. Nkqo- ntombazana emhlotshazana
5.Maxhoseni
6.Rattex Welcome to Khaltsha
7. Ndlulamthi- emvuleni
8. Simbone- Mbali
9.Backyard Crew- Baby girl
10.Nqotsonga- Amazwi kaNkululeko...
therez actually quite a whole lot more artists but their tracks aren't on youtube
NB: Xhosa rap is Spaza and Mbuzo Buciko (2 subgenres)
So, they could theoretically beat box and rap simultaneously. No need for a beat. ;)
Mistake 1:
That;s not pronunciation. Pronunciation of c is c in Xhosa not ca ce ci co cu. Exclude all the vowels please and pronounce the consonants independently of the vowels. Thanks.
Mistake 2:
Since everything can be learned, my language Xhosa can also be learnt. The way i understand language learning is like 2 people standing at different positions. One is here and another a few metres away. They need to be at the same spot for both of them to equally understand the same language. The distance from both of them is the same. It is not shorter/longer for the other. Therefore the level of difficulty for a French to learn English will be equal to the level of the native English person experiences when they learn French. All in all every thing can be difficult to learn for a beginner but it is not impossible. Simple master how to pronounce the click words independently and then proceed to combine them with the vowels ca, ce, ci, co, cu; xa xe xi xo xu and qa, qe qi qo qu. You should be able to master all that within an hour. You don't have to worry about the meaning at this stage as they mean nothing until combined with other letters to form a complete word. All you need to worry about is pronouncing it correctly. It should be easy as you simply replaces your own language's way of calling these clicks with our own version.
Once you have mastered that, proceed to a slightly higher level of difficulty where you include the letters 'nk' infront of this clicks so you will have:
nkca, nkce, nkci, nkco, nkcu
nkxa, nkxe, nkxi, nkxo, nkxu
nkqa, nkqe, nkqi, nkqo, nkqu
Examples
inkcazelo = explanation, inkcenkce = iron, inkcitho = expenditure, inkco=? inkcubeko = culture
inkonkxa = cylinder/large can
inkqatho = deceit, inkqekeko = split, nkqi = an ideophone symbolising hardness, nkqonkqoza = knock, inkqubo = program/show
Once familiar with that proceed to include the letters :'h' and 'g' with the clicks. For example where you have c you include 'h' and 'g' and now you have 'ch' and 'gc' Note in the case of 'g' the click sound comes afterwards.
Eventually we will have the following clicks:
cha che chi cho chu
(examples of words chanekileyo = accurately, umchamo = urine, cheba = shave, ichibi = lake, chola = pick (off the ground) ichule = expert)
gca gce gci gco gcu
gcada = fry, emgceni = in the line, gcina = keep, umgcobo = joy, ukugcuma = to be in great pain
xha xhe xhi xho xhu
ixhala = anxiety, ixhego = old man, umxhelo - accord, isixhiba = grudge, isixhobo = weapon, xhuma - jump
gxa gxe gxi gxo gxu
igxamesi = boarding school/place to rent by schoolkids, gxeka = criticise, gxi= ?, gxotha = evict, gxu = ?
qha qhe qhi qho qhu
qhatha = cheat, qhela = get used/acquaint, iqhiya - headscarf, iqhina = slope, qhuba = drive/proceed
gqa gqe gqi gqo gqu
igqala = veteran, gqebha = share/strike, gqiba = complete/finish, gqobhoza = puncture/pierce, gquma = cover
Lastly we attach gx, gq and gc with n infront to make ngx, ngq and ngc
Examples of words ingxolo = noise, ingqondo = mind, ingca = grass
That's all. It doesn't get any worse than this. This you can complete in 2 days if you are very slow at learning. All the other words that are not represented by their clicks here it means they don't have any click sounds with them. Thanks for reading. Happy learning.
Thank you! :>
You a great teacher Mkhaya.
But...your 'mistake 1' is not a mistake if it helps us learners pronounce/understand better. It IS easier for us to learn the consonant sounds when they're attached to vowels. You are thinking from the perspective of a natural speaker as opposed to a new learner. Mistake 1 is not a mistake because what he did truly helps.
Oh...and you should upload a video demonstrating all that you've typed. It is indeed very interesting information but they remain just groups of letters until we learn how to pronounce them.
@@seguestt2 You're right I think a video will useful in accurately explaining all that.
Are you telling me that there is a language built around the noises I use to get the attention of my cat?? That's great, I'm already a pro! (Just kidding, of course, love you and love the beautiful differences that are in the world).
*BLACK PANTHER!*
Thats not P.E its Kwanobuhle an area 10km away from P.E what if i said Florida Keys when im talking about Orlando or Arlington when im talking about Austin so dont make those mistakes if u r not sure ask a real south african or sometimes a real african plz i know this a long comment and i dont anyone will read whole thing so dont ever ever ever ever ever ever ever make that mistake again
WUKANDA FOREVER
Very beautiful and unique language...
I didn't know such language existed. Interesting..
I ve good xhosa friend from South Africa, lot of love from pakistan.
that is my home language
Wow this is so cool!!!
how do you write down that clicking sound?
Just a UA-camr He tells you as he's going through them. The sounds at 0:33 are written with "c", at 0:47 is "x" (you can hear him use it whenever he says "xhosa"), and 1:01 is written with "q".
I saw a video on the clicks a few months ago or so...I don't know the language so I'm not sure but if my memory is correct the letters X, C, and Q are clicks.
Hi I am a Xhosa... I would like to add advanced words like Nkq, Nkc, TL, Nk,
Ngq, Ngc, Ty, Kr, Rha!
Like any other language does with their phonemes: diacritics, digraphs or consonant clusters.
Such nice people and melodic language.
Vim pelos fatos desconhecidos....
eu tbm.
I like their tongue twisters, they tell a story!
He know de way
Plebeian exactly my thougt
i thought that white guy was speaking khoikhoi with his pronounciation
Beatbox hehe
Vou fazer um curso de Beat Box, DEPOIS, tentarei aprender essa língua maravilhosa! Muito suingue no falar! Show!!!!
ndiathanda oliwimi isiXhosa
"Ndiyaluthanda ulwimi lwesiXhosa" :)
Zibonga I forgot o is plural
Cool
Zervinho A-Z Zibonga
Does this mean that you love the. Xhosa language... I'm east African, just trying to guess the meaning. 😊
Miriam Makeba was mostly singing using this language. One of her song says igqirha lendlela bathi nguqongqothwane
He knows de wey.
John Davis stfu
I made this comment way before the meme went viral and was even a thing. Though I must admit, I am getting aids rn rereading what I have written and am in regret.
He is from South Africa not Uganda
Great video!
the economist snapchat brought me here
Sabine Ho same
Sabine Ho same lmbo
I love this video! ♡♡♡
Do you know de way, bruddha
This is not Ugandan, It's South Africa.
I was about to say that meme has been dead for a long time now, but then I realized it was posted in January when that meme was alive and well.
Just starting to learn, after a couple of days I'm starting to be able to pronounce each click more often!
FATOS DESCONHECIDOS???
Eu XD
Não me contentei e vim parar aqui hahsuahaus
Im tombem kksjsksj
siim
Sabia que não era só eu que iria atrás. kk
This is like an alien language. So cool.
This actually a highly advanced language which may have been directly passed down to us from aliens. It is widely thought that if we were to meet aliens from outer space they would speak in a series of staccato clicks.
Believed by who and on what basis? Why are we assuming aliens have a tongue? Or a mouth, or ears? What if they speak with light and communicate in cascading rainbows?
Xhosa sounds like a fun language.
Interesting video
This lingo being popular in UK right now... with all of the wagwarn fam things to it
Iqaqa is a “ skunk” not a squirrel bawo 🤙
Michael Appolus kunini indithukuthezela lo nto
My name is Gisele phalo and I will master the Xhosa language!
My language :P
doig
@masterg253 i didn't realize you were a studied linguist with an ability to differentiate the location of sounds through a video. what a talent you have. educate yourself, seriously.
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
It's so amazing!
Wakanda forever!
Al these guys from ggm, trevor noah here wena !!!
its the most interesting language I have ever heard with a clicking sound.
So fascinating !!! Interesting culture 🔥
what an amazing language!!
Truly LOVE my people, Miriam Makeba , the late songstress even sang songs in the "clicking" language. Hope to someday get a DNA test done to find out my heritage here in Africa...P.S. Miriam's father I just read, was from the Xhosa tribe.
if you an African American ,no need to look for ancestry heritage in south Africa because Slaves werent taken there .Go read history you will understand
WWaw this is interesting.. BTW is there a relation between Hausa and Xhosa???
I find your click letters not very different though more difficult than impulsive ones of Hausa. I mean (ts k' ɗ) i the same order (c x q) chech this in my chanel ur other impulsives are (ɓ, c= ch)