Xhosa lesson 3. Pronouncing vowels

[@waystonatural3214]

Our languages are our treasures. Thank you for your channel, brother. Love from Angola.

[@MedicineFork]

I love your language. I am currently living and studying in Germany. Germanic languages are interesting but Xhosa is awesome. Please continue your teachings.

[@AlecksHELLbandit]

Thank you so much for your videos!! Xhosa has intrigued me for a very long time and I already know more in 3 videos than years of looking around the internet!! Thanks!!

[@keepitrealwithkesha9485]

The face expressions OMGI luv you ma!

[@RubleWB]

Molo Khaya, Unjani? Ndi funa e Mzantzi Afrika. Sobonana shomi yam.

[@norah685]

Thank you for your videos. I know it's been 15 years but this has been very informative

[@FLlTTER]

Same vowels as Georgian, Spanish, and Japanese! This is a pretty common set of vowels, I guess, for 4 unrelated languages to share!

[@skyelarraiti8856]

Dendy It's a very common vowel set. If a language has five vowels, you can bet that they're probably "a", "e", "i", "o", and "u".

[@skyelarraiti8856]

Dendy (pronounced as in Spanish or Italian, not as in English)

[@kd62422]

This is so cool! I've wanted to learn this language for a few weeks, and then I found this. It's so cool because my name is Kaya, the same as yours!

[@KittieCat901]

I love his voice

[@thirdwaycomms]

How come I only discovered these this year!!! You are such a star Mr Dlanga ... still helpful and relevant. Nkosi!

[@KuntaKinteBiaatch]

Khaya, I swear that the letters are spoken the same way in german!!! they just don't use this clicks. but thank you for this lewson man now i can say soma letters in 10 different languages without speaking them AND i can even dance them with eurythmy! :) THATS THE FUTURE OF UNIVERSAL SPEAKING!

[@calitza]

this is excellent, what a wonderful way to spread culture through the internet!

[@ralstonreid-444]

Thank you so much I can't speak your language bit I listen to songs which helps me to understand it better, I can sing a song in your language but some of the words I don't understand so I Google them. I'm so happy your doing this, I would learn this language any day over Spanish.

[@BietjieMal]

I learned isiXhosa at school years ago, now I live in australia and I really miss that vibrant language! Thanks for posting :D

[@latasha1970]

thank you! I'm curating a tribute where the vocalists are singing Xhosa and we are sooooooo lost. I think this is going to help. I watched the click lesson too.

[@britbrat327]

I became more interested in the language after seeing black panther

[@arjunmanyem7729]

me too

[@eduedmais]

You are quite good at teaching... no doubt you are a very good teacher... these vowels are pronounced the same as they are in my native language, Portuguese.

[@Hogie506]

New video my friend! Please! You is my best (free) resource for learning this beautiful language until I find a tutor (I live in Ireland). Why not make more than one short videos at once? I just need to be able to know how to pronounce these feckin words! Nceda! If it helps, me and my sister both think you are very, very cute. Especially your smile :D

[@imanfazlic1142]

The languages from the Balkan-region in Europe also pronounce the vowels and consonants that way. Amazing how languages develop.

[@bertolg5028]

Please make some more videos! You’re an awesome teacher.

[@blackbarbie202]

you make learning soo exciting and fun. yay.

[@Erzulie5]

Hi Kaya, Your videos are very helpful, thank you! I am an American narrator of audiobooks.

[@loyisoduna2617]

enkosi meaning thank u

[@sarangeonew]

Vowels in xhosa are the same that in spanish XD

[@thousandpagesofmadness]

And Japanese

[@amadeujaime]

Carlota. M En portugues tambien

[@sarangeonew]

Busta normal que interesante XD

[@criskity]

Carlota. M Same as in Indonesian (except they have one more).

[@liko-_-6077]

Indonesia too

[@isabellefischer5145]

Ah, that makes sense. I can do the clicking sounds while I'm inhaling but not while I'm exhaling. What you're explaining with a sort of inhale/exhale movement resolves that problem. You kind of transfer the inhaling to an abdomen movement, correct?

[@hallrc]

Could you please explain how to pronunce the "hl," "kh," and "ph" sounds? Thank you!

[@Lorys0107]

What about numbers in Xhosa ?

[@MsCicena]

The vowels are the same in Spanish! yay! Thank you Khaya!

[@kato9692]

What's ur country?

[@andrew49247]

Khaya it's been over 5 months now again, new video please!

[@kato9692]

Xhosa is also the official language in South Africa, too. P.S. My question was going toward a comment that CecoBg3 made on the previous page. ^_^

[@stansmith9482]

The vowels in Xhosha are not the exact same as in Spanish actually; the i and u would be the same, but the e and o would have a retracted tounge root changing the sound. Also, the a is slightly different. If you would use spanish vowels while speaking Xhosha to a native speaker, they would defenitely pick up and accent in your pronunciation.

[@streetwarrior31]

Exacly as in Portuguese. My assumption is...becouse im Portuguese and my ancestors were long time ago in those lands, the same sounds remain there

[@sovamau1119]

we want more...!! please more xhosa :D

[@Bianca-vm7ti]

What about the letter "h"

[@lupinedivinity13]

Hey Khaya, what about the letter r? Is that any different in Xhosa?

[@madisonsscar]

this is so fricken cool, I'm fascinated

[@josaiatuifangaloka9939]

Vowels are same as Tongan ones (pacific island) haha! Keep it up!

[@GodOfTheInternets]

Actually Afrikaans is simplified Dutch, but influenced by malay, german and english.

[@QuincyAlvin]

great teacher! You definitely need to pronounce the vowels with x and q for us to hear and practice before you continue to the next lesson

[@LuViS4eVer20]

Thank you so much for sharing your language!

[@niitai5]

what is occurring everybody???

[@GodOfTheInternets]

Afrikaans, Enlish and Dutch were official apartheid languages (Dutch wasn't an offical language after 1962? - from the top of my head)

[@PedroParanhos1]

easy, some parts are very similar to portuguease! hi from brazil!

[@KhayaDlanga]

Perhaps it shall be in the next lesson :-)

[@Malus16]

its great, thank you :) I have a question: could you explain or discribe, how to pronounce the p like the b? (because the b in xhosa its like injektiv. the air goes inside. but icant do this with the p :/ :)

[@skyelarraiti8856]

Malus16 You mean an implosive p (the "inhaling" that XhosaKhaya was talking about is really "implosion")? It's possible, and it would use the same mechanism as an implosive b, but it's not as audibly different from a regular p as an implosive b is from a regular b.

[@llareek]

my information tells me that South-Africa has 11 official languages of which Xhosa is one...

[@GodOfTheInternets]

i thought you ment: 40% german, 40% dutch, 20% different.

[@thordonar8694]

It's like Spanish vowels. Congrats. :)

[@mignonnewallace1954]

Like our Maori language the same vowels as you say them 😂

[@GodOfTheInternets]

oh and probably native 'south african' languages as well

[@apiwekwezi8410]

thats my language ...tjo ndiyasithanda isixhosa sakuthi bethuna tshin

[@lupinedivinity13]

awesome! looking forward to it! :)

[@CecoBg3]

lol in my country we say B , C , D and F the same way

[@HebrewGyalJo]

sounds like Igbo!

[@KhayaDlanga]

I was reading your mind. lol!

[@xpwnx4]

right now its at like 36,000 lol

[@albiorige]

Also in italian (and in latin) so strange!

[@selftalkbodysoul]

you last video is now 2 million views :D

[@JaSamMocniRendzer]

They sound the same in Serbian! :D

[@lunammacingwana8377]

Enkosi ngomamelisa abantu i curlter yetu

[@teacherlaura68]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[@Bekll]

Or Italian. Even Japanese. :)

[@DDownageXD]

if anyone is having trouble with the "b's" pronouncew them like this: mba, mbe, mbi, mbo, mbu, if i'm not mistaking

[@kato9692]

Um well, thanx for the info, brotha.^_^

[@LevonaDiedrich]

Uhhhh, which South Africa are you living in, bro? South Africa on Mars, or what? You claim to know 'cause you live there? Xhosa is an official SA language, bro! From your statement I gather that you're trapped in a pre-Apartheid time warp. Nooooo, I ain't saying you're racist. Just that your statement was typical thinking back in the day... Xhosa is more South African than the other 2 languages you mentioned.

[@iansteu]

I can do the vowels, at least

[@MrFelipe753159]

isso ta mais pra português africano

[@amadeujaime]

Felipe G. Ribeiro Ya so os vogais. Quase todas as linguas Bantu da Africa Austral tem vogais iguais ao portugues.

[@MrFelipe753159]

entendi rsrs

[@nyyyankee]

+Busta normal sim e eu acho q o jeito dos brasileiros falarem tem muita influencia das linguas africanas, principalmente no rio e no nordeste

[@joanna1820]

its just like portuguese. The sound is exactly the same.

[@bolaspeludasamenazantessob1265]

Sounds like Spanish jajaja 😂

[@FreeInChrist26]

1:30 hahah!!! so funny!!

[@kato9692]

it's all good

[@verna0072001]

good

[@andrew124480]

I guess I'll say them in Portuguese.

[@helgihg]

Yay! \o/

[@BeniHokiBiro]

you prononuce vowels like in hungarian :)

[@cleinhadomingos]

like portuguese

[@RCoosta]

lol... sorry

[@erick5458]

i did c !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DewyMoss]

Homeboy is sooo high right now.

[@TheGoreand]

SRBski:-))))))))))(serbian)

[@Town-tok]

You needed to say them in English first i.e. [a,e,i,o,u] but you went straight to Xhosa vowels. I'm saying this because (e) in English sounds the same as (i) in Xhosa. You need to up your game, good job though. Repeat and rectify

[@alexandersousa6728]

boo! you stink!