Xhosa

Masifunde isiXhosa! / Let’s learn Xhosa!

 

 

Native Work, photos by Andrew Putter, exhibited at the Stevenson Gallery.

Typical Phrases & Conversations

1. Introductions and Greetings
2. Giving Directions

Vocabulary Lists

1. Basic Vocabulary: Verbs, Nouns & Other Goodies
2. People
3. The Body
4. At Home
5. Animals
6. Food
7. Studying and Work

Basic Grammar

1. Subject Concords: Making Your Own Sentences
2. Copulative Concords, Kukho and Khona: “It is X”, “There is X” and “X is here”
3. Possessive Concords: Showing Ownership
4. Object Concords: “It, them, me, him/her, us”, etc.

Revision

1. Concord Revision #1
2. Concord Revision #2

Advanced Grammar

1. Na- and Nga-
2. Commands
3. Numbers & Adjectives
4. Locatives & Prepositions
5. Direct & Indirect Relative Clauses

Tenses

1. Future: Things Still to Happen
2. Remote Past: Things That Happened a Long Time Ago
3. Recent Past: Things That Happened Not Very Long Ago
4. Recent Past Continuous: Things That Were Happening Not Very Long Ago
5. Perfect Tense: Did and Has Done

Moods

1. Subjunctive
2. Past Subjunctive
3. Present Participial