Articles tagged ‘Xhosa’
Link of the Week: The Daily Dispatch
By Ben | January 3rd, 2006 |
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(An SA Blog Beta post from Your Correspondent)
SA Blog’s Link of the Week will be especially useful for travellers visiting the Eastern Cape. Click over to the website of the Daily Dispatch, South Africa’s best daily online newspaper, for good coverage of East London, Nelson Mandela Metropole (NMMM - a.k.a. Port Elizabeth), Grahamstown, Umtata, and [...]
Easy Xhosa: Saying “Hello”
By Ben | December 12th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Xhosa is one of Cape Town’s major languages. It’s full of clicks, making it seem like a linguistic Everest to those who want to learn it. (More fearsome facts: it has 17 noun cases, and is “tonal” like Chinese, meaning the same words take on different meanings, according to how they’re “sung.”)
But basic Xhosa’s quite [...]
