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Incredible Zulu click language – The ultimate tongue twister.
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Incredible Zulu click language – The ultimate tongue twister.
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Fascinating. He has such a friendly manner too.
By far the most intriguing language to me. Also I wonder what it’s like wheelbarrowing giant testicles around all day with a voice that deep.
Again this guy is amazing, check out the other video which I think is better: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1037c5p/how_to_pronounce_zulu_clicks_with_sakhile_from/!
I always love this video of another language that’s mentioned in yours called Xhosa: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlp-croVYw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlp-croVYw)
Cool!
Though technically his *p* sound is an ejective, not a click.
Clicks are produced by air rushing *into* the mouth.
Ejectives are produced by closing your vocal folds (like when you say “uh-oh” ) and raising your larynx, which raises the air pressure inside the mouth and forces the air *out*.
There are a handful of languages with true bilabial clicks (clicks produced with the two lips, as *p* is), but Nguni Bantu languages like Zulu are not among them.
SOURCE: Am a Ph.D. linguist who taught phonetics at the university level, with some experience with Nguni languages and a lot of experience with languages that have ejective consonants.
Now I know how Japanese people feel trying to pronounce L’s
It’s like my mouth is just not designed to make that noise.
I imagine because you learn this as your native language you learn at a young age how to form the sounds and thus it becomes natural to the speaker. But learning it after you’ve gotten older (or as a second language ) it must be difficult because I imagine some of the sounds involve tongue movements or jaw placement most non-speakers aren’t used to.
Amazing though. Really cool.
(*Me mangling Spanish and it’s just different sounds*)
I liked this video when practicing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlocO29uud4&ab_channel=LearnXhosawithUBuntuBridge
This guy has such a calm soothing voice. Would 100% listen to a podcast with him as a host!
Dude oozes charisma.
For a second I thought he was going to tell a story about a girl making him a sandwich.
This guy is brilliant. It’s such a clear explanation and he hits it step by step with examples. Great work!
South Africa is such a fascinating country to me. I really want to visit but I feel I never will.
The Koi language is even more interesting and really difficult to learn.
https://youtu.be/W6WO5XabD-s
try say 4000 in czeck and then we will talk about thong Twisters.
This is an attractive man.
trying to imitate saying “coca cola” with the c’s pronounced that way I think just broke me
That’s so cool.
What’s a water monitor ? An aninal ?
Really interesting when I recognise that my mind clearly separates those clicks and more common speech into separate bins. I can’t handle it as a “word that has clicks” – my mind processes it as “word” and some clicking sounds in the background.
Also this man’s teeth – they’re look so nice.
Dude could become the next movie trailers announcer.
Dude could become the next movie trailers announcer.
This man has such an amazing voice!!!
TIL how a native pronounces the word “Xhosa”
One day I hope to be able to say I can say it properly, but I am not optimistic.
Beautiful voice.
Does the place where he lives need anything, such as a clean water supply, electric lights and a power supply, a school?
Need to send this to Xiaomanyc