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
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!
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 😉
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.
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
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!
Dude, we use those clicks in spain. C se usa para decir No, o para mostrar molestia, o para cortar el discurso pesado de alguien. Q se usa para imitar con la boca el galope de un caballo. X repetidamente se usa para llamar al ganado o al perro. Los tres son de uso común, y especialmente C y X son de uso diario. Don't blame spanish speakinng tongue for your own speciffic numbness of the tongue. Go eat some chicken wings to train your mouth muscles or something.
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
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.
There are things I can only express in Afrikaans, and things best said in English. I'm super excited knowing that there are things I'll only be able to say in Xhosa, so a huge thank you for your videos!
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!
This is SOOOOO GOOD and so very needed. Sometimes we give out here on TH-cam, 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!
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.
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.
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! 🙏
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.
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
I am here because of Trevor Noah. Loving the Xhosa language he speaks. I love learning languages. You are good at explaining how to make the wonderful sounds. To incorporate these sounds in words must be a challenge. Unless you learn it from a very young age.❤
@@marjamerryflower Hi there! Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate the feedback. Ah it's not that hard to learn😉 I'm sure you can learn a few words in no time! 🙌🏿💥
This is fascinating and hard as an American. I can make the sound but not well with the vowel. My breath doesn't know when to come. 😄The language is so beautiful to listen to. Thank you!
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.
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 was listening to my favorite album of all time: Rhythm of the Pride Lands, and I was listening to Busa. Miraculously, I was able to sing along and when Lebo M was singing, I heard that click, and that click threw me off because I couldn’t get it; it’ll be either I say the word and then the click, or I make the click then say the word haha. Ever since then, I’ve been trying to not only speak the language, but to also understand it. I don’t want to end up like Chris Tucker at the beginning of Rush Hour 2 and say something that’ll get me in trouble haha.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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🙂
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.
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.
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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
Hi Lwandiso. Aah, thank you for the referrals, and also thanks for watching. Much appreciated.
What is isi xhoxa
@@Random-yh3jl Sorry, IsiXhosa?
or uyaxoka - you are lying. Or uxoxa - to argue/debate
Xhoasa is the OG beatboxers.
Good one 😅🙌🏾🙌🏾
what is a OG beatboxer???
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!
I was surprised when I learned about this language, I always made all of these sounds since I was a kid but never knew they were used in a language
The language you've been yearning for since childhood...
I also do when i pretend some animals 🤣 i respect all the langueages
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 😉
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.
Same here! I mostly want to pronounce peoples names correctly.
🗿 lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 RIGHT?!
Wakanda..? 💀
Bro what.
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
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!
Again, my Spanish-speaking tongue cannot handle some awesomeness.
I am trying, and I hope I don't fail in the attempt.
Dude, we use those clicks in spain. C se usa para decir No, o para mostrar molestia, o para cortar el discurso pesado de alguien.
Q se usa para imitar con la boca el galope de un caballo.
X repetidamente se usa para llamar al ganado o al perro.
Los tres son de uso común, y especialmente C y X son de uso diario.
Don't blame spanish speakinng tongue for your own speciffic numbness of the tongue. Go eat some chicken wings to train your mouth muscles or something.
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
All Gents we need to protect this lady at all costs
what happened? is someone threatening her?
This language is pure magic!!!!
@@joyce_trindade 🙌😅
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.
its 4am.... im pretty sure im going to wake my kids up because I decided to stay up and learn Xhosa lol.... I really need to get off quarantine lol
Same here. It's approaching midnight and my Xhosa click practice just woke up my daughter.
Hahaha three years later and I was trying to learn too, but my husband is trying to sleep. So… hahaha I’ll try it again later.
This lesson is amazing. Thanks for making the time to educate others 💜🙏🏻
There are things I can only express in Afrikaans, and things best said in English. I'm super excited knowing that there are things I'll only be able to say in Xhosa, so a huge thank you for your videos!
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!
This is SOOOOO GOOD and so very needed. Sometimes we give out here on TH-cam, 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!
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.
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.
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! 🙏
These instructions are really clear and helpful! I have no background in Xhosa, so I need this
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.
Watch African Xhosa ASMR. She whispers and teaches
Thank you for this video, i am a Spanish native speaker and i am very interesting in this amazing language.
can you please make a video on how to pronounce the clicks ch, gc, ngc, xh, gx, ngx, qh, gq. Thanks
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
Molo apho ! 👋 Yes, Zulu is a good foundation for learning Xhosa. 🙂Thank you for your watching! Appreciate the feedback 👍
@@learnxhosawithkhanyi thanks for your message
Bem didático! Parabéns pelo vídeo.
Interesting language
I learned how to pronounce ! Thank you.
From DRC 🇨🇩
The best xhosa video. With you i managed to say something that looks like those clocks. Thank you!
I am here because of Trevor Noah. Loving the Xhosa language he speaks. I love learning languages. You are good at explaining how to make the wonderful sounds. To incorporate these sounds in words must be a challenge. Unless you learn it from a very young age.❤
@@marjamerryflower Hi there! Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate the feedback. Ah it's not that hard to learn😉 I'm sure you can learn a few words in no time! 🙌🏿💥
This is fascinating and hard as an American. I can make the sound but not well with the vowel. My breath doesn't know when to come. 😄The language is so beautiful to listen to. Thank you!
NdiyaziThanda i vidiyo/video zakho qhubeka 🎉❤🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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.
i've never even thought about making clicks as part of a language, how unique. very cool and thank you for the video :)
What a BEAUTIFUL yet hard to learn language!
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 😅
Thx 🙏 I‘m from Austria and I‘d like to learn your language, because I love it 🥰
Thank you so much for this! I’m learning Qongqothwane and this is very helpful. ❤
I was listening to my favorite album of all time: Rhythm of the Pride Lands, and I was listening to Busa. Miraculously, I was able to sing along and when Lebo M was singing, I heard that click, and that click threw me off because I couldn’t get it; it’ll be either I say the word and then the click, or I make the click then say the word haha. Ever since then, I’ve been trying to not only speak the language, but to also understand it. I don’t want to end up like Chris Tucker at the beginning of Rush Hour 2 and say something that’ll get me in trouble haha.
Thank you one day I will talk xhoza fluently
Where have you been😭😭. It's been a while now, I've really missed your videos...❤
Hey doll! Thank you so much for watching. I'll be uploading more regularly now though :)
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.
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
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...
Thank you Khanyi. I've just subscribed to your channel and look forward to learning Xhosa !!!!!
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.
Thanks I like to learn Xhosa language because I'm in eastern cape
OMG this language is so beautiful!! ❤️❤️
It's amazing. I think I would need an in-person tutor to learn that. Otherwise it would seem IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Great video, I'm ready for my next lesson 👌💖
Thanks for the intro lesson. I only wish I started this way earlier.
Awesome language! You people are amazing!♥️
Khanyi, please teach us more! I really want to speak the language properly. xx
Hi there! Thanks for watching and I now post a new lesson every Wednesday morning 🌄 Watch out for it!🙂🙂
Thank you for this! can't wait to start learning.
Thank you! 🙂👍 Posting a new video every Wednesday!
Thanks a lot. When is your second lesson hopefully coming?
this is a great explanation
This is so helpful. Thank you
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.
The “Kr” sound will me go crazy 😅🥲
It is the type sound I cannot stand.
When my kids made that sound I was like 😖😖😖
So interesting and challenging!
I love South African languages so much lol. I used to live in SA ☺️
This is super interesting, thank you so much for making these lessons!
سبحان الله
Interesting, we have 4 cicks Damara and Nama people of 🇳🇦 !, #, / and // representing our clicks. Love your explanation
hello my friend, are you from Namibia? (sorry, I was sick when they taught flags in school). Do you speak Khoekhoegba?
@@SamuelLanghorn Yes it's my language. You will not learn much from school dear, we only learn someone else 's agenda.
@@ItsZandrabyGrace what does that mean? are you referring to the teaching of your native language in your official school?
@@SamuelLanghorn No, I meant school in general, don't mind me
@@ItsZandrabyGrace are you in Windhoek? are you a native Khoekhoe speaker?
When I'm out and about I make a click sound and people actually say hello back to me 😹
It’s crazy !
This is cool...but difficult for folks with dentures.
Thank you ma'am. I want to learn the language
X seems like a slightly more intense version of C to me but I may get the difference better now.
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 🙂
You're awesome 💯
It’s so beautiful and cool 😍
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.
Damn I had it at the start 😂 thought I was a natural till you came in with the r sounds
@@nontrickpony 😅👏🏾 Nah, you got this! Keep going 💪
Thanks a lot, this is really helpful :)
Does the X and C kind of sound similar?
I'm struggling with the Q 😩
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🙂
This is great. Thank you So much
This is so interesting
/About the letter "x"./ Is the tounge also inportant? :)
Is this mainly for chinese people learning xhosa?
Awesome! Enkosi Sis.
thanks
Hi! Thanks for watching :)
Q is an explosion! How can you do it
This is so helpful, thank you❤
Are you on TikTok?
very useful!
Hi there! Thanks for watching. I post a new lesson every Wednesday morning 🌄 🙂🙂
The C is most difficult for me but I will learn
the "c" clic means "no" here in sicilia :)!!
Lol in Tunisia it means "nah" too
so is Xhosa different from the Zulu language? I'm started learning isiZulu on Duolingo because there is no isiXhosa. Please explain
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 , khanyi . I would like to teach your language . Is so beatiful .can you help me , please ? Thank you very much . Greetings from czech republic
Nice video
It's funny how as kids some of us use to make these sounds
Harder than I thought...maintaining the vowel sound between the click...and that last sound, to make it different from the second...I'm sweating.
Thank you. 🫶🏾
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.
Thank you :)
Really helpful. Hard to focus cause your so bright and beautiful, but info seems to be broken down and very insightful.
Hello! Thank you so much for watching. And I appreciate the positive feedback :)
It's amazing
AMAZING!
ndiathanda isiXHosa kakhulu usuku oliunye ndiahamba umZantsi!