The Learn Xhosa Podcast - Free with Makhosi

Learn Xhosa with UBuntu Bridge founder and adult learner of Xhosa, Craig Makhosi. This is the right podcast to get you started in speaking Xhosa with confidence. Talk along, instructional and enjoyable English to Xhosa audio instructions. Comes with accompanying PDF/learning manual for optimal learning. Best to just repeat out loud. Audio taken from the Free Mandela Learn Xhosa Video Series. See www.learnxhosaonline.com for more learning options.

Learn Xhosa with UBuntu Bridge founder and adult learner of Xhosa, Craig Makhosi. This is the right podcast to get you started in speaking Xhosa with confidence. Talk along, instructional and enjoyable English to Xhosa audio instructions. Comes with accompanying PDF/learning manual for optimal learning. Best to just repeat out loud. Audio taken from the Free Mandela Learn Xhosa Video Series. See www.learnxhosaonline.com for more learning options.

Learn Xhosa with UBuntu Bridge founder and adult learner of Xhosa, Craig Makhosi. This is the right podcast to get you started in speaking Xhosa with confidence. Talk along, instructional and enjoyable English to Xhosa audio instructions. Comes with accompanying PDF/learning manual for optimal learning. Best to just repeat out loud. Audio taken from the Free Mandela Learn Xhosa Video Series. See www.learnxhosaonline.com for more learning options.

Learn Xhosa with UBuntu Bridge founder and adult learner of Xhosa, Craig Makhosi.  This is the right podcast to get you started in speaking Xhosa with confidence.

Talk along, instructional and enjoyable English to Xhosa audio instructions.  

Comes with accompanying PDF/learning manual for optimal learning.

Best to just repeat out loud. 

Audio taken from the Free Mandela Learn Xhosa Video Series.

See www.learnxhosaonline.com for more learning options.

UBuntu Bridge has been teaching Xhosa since 2006, there are various products, learning services and tools at : https://www.learnxhosaonline.com/store

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saying hello to one person: Molo

saying hello to more then one person: Molweni

Molo/Molweni, although deriving from the English
and Afrikaans greetings, “Morning and More”, can be
used any time of the day or night and is usually
followed by a name or title of the person being greeted,
variations of which we will learn later on.

UBuntu Bridge has been teaching Xhosa since 2006, there are various products, learning services and tools at : https://www.learnxhosaonline.com/store

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An important place to start is with pronunciation. This
will be learnt and re-learnt as your experience with the
language grows. It is important to make an effort from
the start as we all know how much an accent can affect
ability to communicate and early habits tend to stick.
English is a non-phonetic language, which means that
a letter can be pronounced in many different ways or
different letter can represent the same sound in
different words. The following example reveals four
such ways for A:

Ape Arm Apple Air

Xhosa is a phonetic language. The letters correspond
to the sounds consistently, so it is an easy language to
learn to read quickly.

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Vowel: pronounced like: as in word for: in Xhosa:
A ah mother mama
E egg yourself wena
I igloo well philile
O or hello molo
U oo-la-la brother ubhuti

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Are generally easy and may be learnt as one learns the
language. There are a few important exceptions:
Ph peanut not phone (alive - phila, well - philile)
Th talk not thought (talk - thetha)
Hl hlala not shlala (live,sit - hlala) (down - phantsi)
TIP: (keep front tip of tongue against palette whilst
making a sh sound) well/beautifully - kakuhle
Rh in Gauteng/goud - eRhawutini (as in Afrikaans)
AmaRharhabe – One of the main Xhosa proper tribes.

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With the clicks it is important to remember that many
people struggle at first, purely because they are not
used to them. However, every human is capable of
making such sounds, many of us have made them in
different contexts and everyone I have taught has
gotten the clicks after some practice, whether that be
ten minutes of practice or three days. It depends on
ones attitude as well as effort.

Be patient with oneself. You may have to reprogram
certain muscles in your mouth. For such situations it is
best to practice often, but to rest whenever one starts to
feel strained by the effort. This may happen quickly in
the beginning, but this will change with time.
Patience and practice.

UBuntu Bridge has been teaching Xhosa since 2006, there are various products, learning services and tools at : https://www.learnxhosaonline.com/store

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