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Xhosa (Teach Yourself Languages)
  
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Xhosa (Teach Yourself Languages) [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Beverley Kirsch (Author), S. Skorge (Author), Sindiwe Magona (Author)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; 2Rev Ed edition (31 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 034087113X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340871133
  • Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 6.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,343,302 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This title is intended for all those who want to learn one of the most widely spoken languages in South Africa. Emphasising the communicative aspect of the language, the course is divided into 16 units ranging from basic functions and language usage to a more varied and complex usage in later units. Material is included from Xhosa literature and magazines to broaden the range of your language and cultural notes are intended to enlighten those visiting Africa. Tips on pronunciation feature to master the "clicks" associated with speaking the language.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent language course with interesting texts, 29 Nov 2004
By Esben Alfort (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This is another excellent language course from Teach Yourself. If you would like to learn how to speak, read and write this fascinating language then I can highly recommend this book. You cannot possibly learn a Bantu language without being taught a good deal of grammar, and this book treats that subject in a clear and precise way. The texts are interesting enough to make you want to read on, and are accompanied by interesting facts and photographs from real life.

Xhosa is one of South Africa's 11 official languages. Together with the closely related Zulu it is the most widely spoken native language of South Africa. It was also the language of President Mandela.
Like most languages south of the Sahara it is a Bantu language, which means (inter alia) that it has 15 noun classes and uses lexical tone to distinguish words.

Xhosa, and to a lesser degree Zulu, has borrowed some of the 'click sounds' that are characteristic of the neighbouring but unrelated Khoisan languages. These sounds are difficult to master, and in some cases even difficult for the non-native to distinguish (even if you are a linguist as I am), but they are very fascinating and make the languages that possess them highly expressive.

It is important to have the tape if you want to learn how to speak Xhosa. Especially as the book will only in a very few cases tell you which tones to use. This is the only serious flaw, but it should be remembered, that most language courses that deal with tone languages actually skip tone information in the books, so that is the standard way of doing it. I therefore give this book (with the tape!) 5 stars in spite of the lacking tonal information.

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