isiXhosa - Everyday Conversation - Beginners (1/3)

Name: isiXhosa - Everyday Conversation - Beginners (1/3)
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A beginners guide to conversational Xhosa

Created byRon Endley

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

Speaking and listening skills in basic conversation
Be able to communicate with a Xhosa speaking person on an everyday basis
Extensive everyday vocabulary, so important when learning a language

Course content

14 sections • 32 lectures • 3h 27m total length

About isiXhosa0:36

Reference Sounds 17:03
Explore isiXhosa reference sounds, including explosive and aspirated consonants, dental and lateral clicks, voiced and voiceless variants, with guided articulation practice.
Reference Sounds 28:34
Explore isiXhosa reference sounds 2, including guttural k r, nasal nc ngc clusters, and clicking sounds with x q c, plus aspirated and voiceless clicks, to boost everyday conversation pronunciation.

First Meeting5:15
In this lecture you meet and greet someone, ask how he or she is and comment on the weather
Name and Surname2:49
Learn to greet, ask for a name and surname, introduce yourself in isiXhosa, and spell names for correct identification.
Home and Origin5:43
Work and Occupations7:50
Learn to discuss work and studies, ask about occupation, where you work, and employment status, while exploring common roles from teacher to nurse, engineer, and lawyer.
Home Situation5:33
Explore isiXhosa everyday conversations about home life, including marital status, children, who you live with, and how many people share the home.
Contact Details2:18
First Meeting – Home and origin

Relaxing activities9:15
Students will be able to describe what they like doing most during their leisure times. You will need to download Anki to access the apkg resource
QUIZ - Favourite relaxing activities
Activities that are disliked7:27
In this lecture we look at activities that some people dislike. This also gives you valuable practice in changing sentences from positive to negative.
QUIZ - Unpopular activities

Time 14:31
In these two lectures, you will encounter a wide range of terms pertaining to time and also be introduced to the various tenses. You will learn how to describe the weather more fully in the Intermediate Course
Time 25:01
Explore isiXhosa time expressions, including times of day from morning to night. Learn words for today, tomorrow, yesterday, the week, month, year, and for hours and minutes.
QUIZ - Time

Introduction to expressing "Place Where"6:34
In this lecture, students will be introduced to expressing "Place Where" and also how isiXhosa nouns change when doing so
Expressing "Place Where" continued11:31
Here students will encounter more examples of how to express "Place Where" in isiXhosa. and ultimately formulate the rule on how these word are formed.
QUIZ - Place where - basic
Adverbs and how to use them9:39
In this lecture you will encounter the various isiXhosa adverbs as experience how they are used in conjunction with nouns
QUIZ - Adverbs of place

Requirements

The course is the most effective if you are in a quite room where you are able to speak out loud

Description

This course is the first of three courses from Beginners to Intermediate to Advanced Conversational Xhosa.

The Beginners course includes 29 videos which can be completed at your own pace, it is completely up to you, you will have lifetime access to this course you may download the pdfs to take with you forever. The aim of this course is to introduce you to the Xhosa language and make you proficient in basic conversational xhosa, it also starts covering important sections in everyday topics.

The aim of this course is to not only give you an introduction to the language of isiXhosa, but to also be a strong foundation for anyone wanting to take the first step in their journey to mastering the language.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to learn the converstaional Xhosa
Anyone visiting South Africa either short or long term
Any South African wanting to improve

isiXhosa - Everyday Conversation - Beginners (1/3)

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

The Sounds of isiXhosa (reference section)2 lectures • 16min

Meeting for the first time6 lectures • 29min

The Weather1 lecture • 6min

Relaxation2 lectures • 17min

How are you feeling?2 lectures • 17min

Miscellaneous Phrases1 lecture • 8min

Language and telephone skills plus personal details3 lectures • 16min

Time2 lectures • 10min

Place where3 lectures • 28min

Requirements

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