A Xhosa language school in Cape Town has ventured onto the social networking scene, for a different reason than most, namely to teach language. Building a fluent nation, one tweet at a time In 2009 ...

Sara-Jayne Makwala King spoke to UCT African languages lecturer, Dr Tessa Dowling. Listen to their conversation in the audio clip below. Have you always wanted to learn Xhosa but felt that it would be ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

Xhosa is known affectionately as the "click click language." — -- The "Black Panther" movie is winning attention for breaking Hollywood norms through its almost entirely black cast and crew, ...

Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o says it took her months to learn how to speak isiXhosa for the movie. The Academy Award-winning actress and another of the blockbuster’s cast, Danai Gurira, were in ...

Stellenbosch University's council approved the institution's new language policy, which comes into effect in January. The use of Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa – the three main languages in the ...

It's always worth learning about new cultures and new languages. Mothertongues will introduce some new things to everyone and this podcast features a language many of us have may not heard before ...

South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves engaged in ethnic ...

Google has added a number of languages to Google Translate including Zulu, Xhosa and Swahili and it reckons that it will translate these languages rather effectively. The reason behind this claim is ...