How to pronounce Zulu clicks

wir-reissen-aus.de // A Zulu woman explains how to pronounce click sounds in the isiZulu language in Giants Castle, Drakensberg, South Africa. Visit the German blog wir-reissen-aus.de for more information!

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  • @tacosalvapor9264
    @tacosalvapor92646 жыл бұрын

    This is actually incredibly difficult to pull off, you need to use your throat, lips, and tongue at the same time.

  • @jake-rg3fd

    @jake-rg3fd

    3 жыл бұрын

    your mum said the same thing

  • @I.KUchiha

    @I.KUchiha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jake-rg3fd LOOOOOOL

  • @JJC007

    @JJC007

    Жыл бұрын

    And also the flow of air

  • @user-xw9ro6ge1m

    @user-xw9ro6ge1m

    Жыл бұрын

    No it’s easy

  • @AdhvaithSane

    @AdhvaithSane

    Жыл бұрын

    Nothing is difficult unless you say it is and the same goes for ease…

  • @mlungisimanqina1966
    @mlungisimanqina19664 жыл бұрын

    For those who’ve mastered those there are more, “but wait there’s more”. 1. Sounds like the first clicks she did, but done whilst breathing out. There are also the breathed ones like. “ch” for “cha” = no. “Chitha” = to pour out. (Fascinatingly when one spends time with another it’s called “ukuchitha isikhathi” which directly translates to “to pour out time” - time is seen as being a literal fluid. 2. Sounds like the second click but done whilst breathing out. As in “xh” for xhamela (one of the clan names of the Xhosa) and as in “Xhosa” 3. “Qh” which is the breathed out version of “q”, which the last click she did. Examples are “qhina” to plait (hair). “Qhiya” = a Xhosa head wrap for women. “Qhoqhoqho” = Adam’s apple or throat. There are many more click sounds though: “gc” for gcwalisa (to fill up). “gx” for gxabhashe (one of the Zulu clan names). Gq for ... well I can’t seem to think of an example right now. There’s also nq nc and nx. And many many more. Sibanzi kakhulu IsiNtu nesiTwa. Kungangithatha isikhathi esidedi ngizengedele ukusichaza kabanzi!

  • @mlungisimanqina1966

    @mlungisimanqina1966

    4 жыл бұрын

    Edit “gq” as in “gqashula” to tear a piece or to rip a piece off something.

  • @baphithi

    @baphithi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mlungisimanqina1966 and then there is ngx (ngxoxo), ngc (ingcinga), ngq (uqongqothwayo), nc (ncika), nx (nxenxa), nq (nqoba) etc. 😁

  • @elbicho4851

    @elbicho4851

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you friend for this information

  • @yellowlemonPenguin
    @yellowlemonPenguin6 жыл бұрын

    the consistancy in which she does the clicks is impressive.

  • @emilysantiago1224
    @emilysantiago1224 Жыл бұрын

    This makes learning the language a little intimidating but fun!

  • @TnboinChi45
    @TnboinChi454 жыл бұрын

    Learning isiZulu and love doing these clicks for family. The look on their faces 😆🤣

  • @TnboinChi45
    @TnboinChi454 жыл бұрын

    I got all 3 in 3 months. It's actually getting easier.

  • @storytimewithunclebill1998
    @storytimewithunclebill1998 Жыл бұрын

    That was awesome. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video

  • @paulineisme
    @paulineisme3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent description, thank you. It will take me extremely long to manage but I'll keep this in mind

  • @HannahClarke778
    @HannahClarke778 Жыл бұрын

    This language is so fun and interesting to learn! These tips are actually really helpful! Thank you!!

  • @mactastic144
    @mactastic1446 жыл бұрын

    She's very talented.

  • @akashbansode5659
    @akashbansode56592 жыл бұрын

    Everyone in rural India use those Clicks for there pets .

  • @187macabee
    @187macabee6 жыл бұрын

    Ooooo she got a strong tongue

  • @Ang21214
    @Ang21214 Жыл бұрын

    Her teeth shine bright like a diamond.💎

  • @bonvabriones
    @bonvabriones6 жыл бұрын

    great teacher

  • @jumadamuharram
    @jumadamuharram6 жыл бұрын

    Awesome thank you made it so easy

  • @TheDisabledGamersChannel
    @TheDisabledGamersChannel3 жыл бұрын

    Such an incredibly fascinating language.

  • @adams8189
    @adams81892 жыл бұрын

    I agree, Zulu is very close to Bushman language and most importantly both Zulus and Bushman look alike in terms of physical appearance.

  • @Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT
    @Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT3 жыл бұрын

    We use some of these sounds to call animals; one of them is Q sound for calling donkeys in my country. You get animal to come to you or to give it an order to go or carry you.

  • @goofeybutreal4398
    @goofeybutreal43986 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the great video.

  • @kentsneed
    @kentsneed6 жыл бұрын

    I wanna learn to do this so badly but my lazy ass tongue won’t cooperate

  • @patriciopinto7145

    @patriciopinto7145

    6 жыл бұрын

    Be prepared. Zulu grammar is also very difficult.

  • @ShudiaL.5777

    @ShudiaL.5777

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @baphithi

    @baphithi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@patriciopinto7145 Zulu grammar is easy. Most foreigners in South Africa, who choose to learn local African languages, master Zulu easily.

  • @TheYuriiaraujo
    @TheYuriiaraujo6 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding!

  • @sawarimking2284
    @sawarimking22846 жыл бұрын

    *Everyone clap for da kween!*

  • @kevenfarah9538

    @kevenfarah9538

    4 жыл бұрын

    SawarimKing everyone click for da kween

  • @fawkeeenset
    @fawkeeenset6 жыл бұрын

    She's awesome

  • @laura.r.1693
    @laura.r.1693 Жыл бұрын

    It sounds too cool!😍

  • @darienapplewhite5661
    @darienapplewhite56613 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @prsee5969
    @prsee5969 Жыл бұрын

    The resonance is insane. Like damn.

  • @learnurduwithsara1068
    @learnurduwithsara1068 Жыл бұрын

    Facinating!

  • @chloeedmund4350
    @chloeedmund4350 Жыл бұрын

    WoW! Very cool!

  • @eroslevi
    @eroslevi5 жыл бұрын

    Ngiyafunda isiZulu, and I just love this video :)

  • @DMurble
    @DMurble2 жыл бұрын

    Very useful.

  • @dr.thumbtzen6464
    @dr.thumbtzen64645 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @MaxRamos789
    @MaxRamos7896 жыл бұрын

    That was awesome! WOOW!

  • @123xoxHellokitty
    @123xoxHellokitty Жыл бұрын

    I heard a lovely song ❤

  • @rahuldhargalkar
    @rahuldhargalkar2 жыл бұрын

    I am awed

  • @sharonhuxford5873
    @sharonhuxford58733 жыл бұрын

    That is impressive

  • @AjiRahman
    @AjiRahman2 жыл бұрын

    I'm impressed with her English too

  • @composersgarage
    @composersgarage4 жыл бұрын

    made it look easy

  • @alieenaimranvlogstv4670
    @alieenaimranvlogstv46706 жыл бұрын

    SOME GUY NEARLY KILLED ME FOR DOING THAT

  • @antonejuma5524
    @antonejuma55245 жыл бұрын

    Haha, can't get enough of it

  • @BorisNVM
    @BorisNVM3 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god I love it

  • @jackboshoff4913
    @jackboshoff49136 ай бұрын

    Love you too much

  • @bozhidarpetrov
    @bozhidarpetrov Жыл бұрын

    And people talk how arabic and chinese were hard. This language might not be hard but still do you even imagine learning it. Sitting in front of desk clicking all the time......

  • @Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth
    @Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth3 жыл бұрын

    Haha it’s actually kind of funny and cute though! 😄

  • @user-mm1el6li4l
    @user-mm1el6li4l6 жыл бұрын

    Cool~~

  • @oferzilberman5049
    @oferzilberman50493 жыл бұрын

    I wanna know how to do that but I don't understand how to do the Q one

  • @jjfreight-trains
    @jjfreight-trains11 ай бұрын

    fascinating

  • @samcaptain001
    @samcaptain001 Жыл бұрын

    This language can sermon wild animals from the bushes.

  • @najan443
    @najan443 Жыл бұрын

    If someone thought pronouncing R in French was difficult, Zulu speakers - what a joke

  • @nicocrozzoli5701
    @nicocrozzoli57014 жыл бұрын

    Incredible, them speaks like doing percussion skills jaja, they have the rithm. im gonna to do a music beat with that sound kiks. im form Argentina perras! jajaaj

  • @mariocassina90
    @mariocassina906 жыл бұрын

    It would be funny to know how you whatsapp such sounds

  • @zinhlesibisi2531

    @zinhlesibisi2531

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mario Cassina ...we actually do chat in our home language...eating;icici...egg;iqanda...no;cha...and we have a few exclamations...such as mxxxm...

  • @seanjokela
    @seanjokela Жыл бұрын

    Wonder how the telephone game would play out with that language

  • @OmnipresentPotato
    @OmnipresentPotato3 жыл бұрын

    Clicks are easy, at least for me, but following them with with vowels is very hard.

  • @ssbhide123
    @ssbhide1236 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how does a baby pick these clicks up while learning this language as a mother tongue..!?

  • @daldude178

    @daldude178

    6 жыл бұрын

    like any other sound

  • @beas2761

    @beas2761

    5 жыл бұрын

    instinct

  • @nokuphilakhumalo4269

    @nokuphilakhumalo4269

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol it comes naturally

  • @NASTEfilms

    @NASTEfilms

    4 жыл бұрын

    kids are incredibly good at distinguishing and mimicking speech sounds. Much better than adults. We largely lose our language acquisition skills when we reach puberty. By that point we have stunning speech literacy (almost as good as an adult) and our brain needs to focus on other things.

  • @YT4Me57

    @YT4Me57

    4 жыл бұрын

    In the natural language development of children, by age one, infants have incorporated the sounds and patterns of his/her native language to the exclusion of all others. This is world wide. Speakers of Zulu languages and dialects, don't struggle to produce their language anymore than a Chinese, German or English speaker does (as an example).

  • @ferdieortman6614
    @ferdieortman66145 ай бұрын

    !Gai llgoas ixa ama Zulu lgoas ❤❤❤

  • @zidstarz
    @zidstarz Жыл бұрын

    Truth

  • @singleproppilot
    @singleproppilot Жыл бұрын

    How do you whisper in this language?

  • @heatherhartman6474
    @heatherhartman64746 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video. Still can't do the q....darnit! :-(

  • @vuvufuzzy2594

    @vuvufuzzy2594

    5 жыл бұрын

    Practise, you'll get it right eventually

  • @nokuphilakhumalo4269

    @nokuphilakhumalo4269

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think it's the most difficult for many people... the x click as well

  • @jameslam1318
    @jameslam13182 жыл бұрын

    Russell Peters brought me here

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 Жыл бұрын

    wow... these people must have strong tongues... look out ladies.

  • @Ragnarok_7917
    @Ragnarok_7917 Жыл бұрын

    I want hear this click language songs...

  • @kokochannel9834
    @kokochannel98346 жыл бұрын

    VI VON ZULUL

  • @shroominati8998
    @shroominati89982 жыл бұрын

    I can't make all those noise and I'm from scotland lol

  • @yyt66
    @yyt664 жыл бұрын

    Alisishiyagalombili 😅😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @markosvuckovic1929
    @markosvuckovic19296 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha we have so much of those who speaks like that in Norway :D

  • @killkillua5725
    @killkillua5725 Жыл бұрын

    Beat box

  • @Oddyzation
    @Oddyzation Жыл бұрын

    *clack* nice

  • @andyandreas8446
    @andyandreas8446 Жыл бұрын

    Beatboxer 😎

  • @Draintheswamp888
    @Draintheswamp888 Жыл бұрын

    My next dating language come here psst cluck cluck

  • @TheMrOwn1
    @TheMrOwn13 жыл бұрын

    Noice.

  • @angeloplus4
    @angeloplus46 жыл бұрын

    any knuckles meme people?

  • @CameshaCamz
    @CameshaCamz6 жыл бұрын

    WAOW

  • @alexgame8857
    @alexgame88573 жыл бұрын

    she doing so loud 0_o

  • @human-omics7507
    @human-omics7507 Жыл бұрын

    I thought it is young Kevin Durant,

  • @408Magenta
    @408Magenta11 ай бұрын

    Yikes. I would face a challenge.

  • @Vincent-fo7xp
    @Vincent-fo7xp Жыл бұрын

    Polyrhythmic

  • @oscarkirk456
    @oscarkirk4563 жыл бұрын

    What are you doing

  • @Fifou699
    @Fifou6994 жыл бұрын

    but why

  • @keepgoing1973
    @keepgoing1973 Жыл бұрын

    Jaja fuckin Binks

  • @blackbutterfly4739
    @blackbutterfly47393 жыл бұрын

    I still don't understand why not just speak in words instead of sounds?? Can someone explain

  • @gicilo386

    @gicilo386

    2 жыл бұрын

    🙄

  • @AndeMarimba

    @AndeMarimba

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hope that was supposed to be a joke...

  • @Aron-ru5zk

    @Aron-ru5zk

    2 жыл бұрын

    Words are sounds, the clicks are the words of their languages.

  • @roxydzey
    @roxydzey2 жыл бұрын

    1. i dont want to sound racist because im not, but its just marvelous to see that every language in whole world fits people's appearance and looks so much every time! like this one it just fits her! 2. this is so asmr. humanity's oldest or one of the oldest languages are actually asmr, these clicking noises and sounds compare them to these days asmr videos :) i think its in our nature that we like these clicking noises, its inside our ancestor genes. i got goose bumps while watching this video. 3. to click and talk like her so easily you must have a very strong tongue - it just looks easy (she made it to look easy) but its actually hard to talk like that. she just have a very strong tongue. well it is a muscle, so you can train it like all the body muscles you have.

  • @tigress63
    @tigress635 жыл бұрын

    I was wondering how she could get such loud knocking sounds etc., but I overall if one looks at the facial structure and tissues one can see how the resonance would be easier. Just looking at the jaws in and of themselves, interestingly it would seem it has to do with the dental arch the most. Asians have a rounded dental arch, Africans is hyperbolic and Europeans is parabolic.

  • @danceswithsw0rds
    @danceswithsw0rds6 жыл бұрын

    do u kno de wae

  • @andrewnagengast2349

    @andrewnagengast2349

    6 жыл бұрын

    show me de wae bruddah

  • @pinguinopenguin2559

    @pinguinopenguin2559

    6 жыл бұрын

    Are u da queen

  • @Seagull780

    @Seagull780

    6 жыл бұрын

    spit on the nonbelievers

  • @warcrimesagainstthepope7307

    @warcrimesagainstthepope7307

    6 жыл бұрын

    lit

  • @reqz16
    @reqz1611 ай бұрын

    normal language, nothing new you make sounds with your mouth...

  • @VanLightning900
    @VanLightning9006 жыл бұрын

    Stop trying yo pretend. U all thought she was a man in the thumbnail

  • @mankuqhapaqii4798
    @mankuqhapaqii47983 жыл бұрын

    She kinda looks like Larry Holmes

  • @keishanance5960
    @keishanance59604 жыл бұрын

    I love this...its beautiful. This is what white colonizers took from africans when they enslaved them.

  • @tonicastel2390

    @tonicastel2390

    Жыл бұрын

    What are you talking about? We still speak it widely in South Africa and it’s one of our 11 national languages.

  • @TheANISHCOOL
    @TheANISHCOOL Жыл бұрын

    Zulu language is widely used in india .. Zulu language is officially language in india for communication between people and animals.

  • @alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696

    @alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696

    Жыл бұрын

    no.

  • @usandutz
    @usandutz Жыл бұрын

    As an European, this sounds to me so alien and fascinating.