WIKITONGUES: Lolly speaking Zulu
Channel: Wikitongues
Date: 2013-09-20

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Hello everybody, my name is Halala and my surname is Shezi. I live in South Africa. I have two brothers, at the moment I am living with dad ehh, my mom lives in the KwaZulu Natal province. There are 9 provinces in South Africa and as I've mentioned my mom lives in one of them. I like speaking and learning about different languages, the language I'm speaking right now is IsiZulu which is part of the Nguni languages. IsiZulu is named after a famous king of the Zulu nation called Shaka Zulu. In South Africa we have eleven official languages. What I like about Zulu is that it has been able to have an influence in other languages in the world, one Zulu word that most of you might recognize is "Fundi". You often hear people refer to a fashion fundi, fundi is from the Zulu word Mfundi (meaning learner or learned one depending on the context). IsiZulu has a lot of clicks, which I think were inherited from our sister language Xhosa (one of the 11 official languages). As I've mentioned before, I live with my dad and he works for the Johannesburg Municipality, I live in Johannesburg and I'm a student at Wits University studying to become a teacher. I studied before to be a speech therapist but that was unsuccessful. I am currently 23 turning 24 soon, wow! I'm getting old. I love animals and I love spending time with my friends a lot. I believe you don't have to only have friends that speak the same language as you or friends that are the same race as you, and for this reason I have diverse friends (White, Chinese, Indian friends). I have friends that speak many different languages because I love languages. I heard about this program from one of my friends, she also loves languages. Her name is Lindie you might have seen some of her videos. Thank you for watching this video, I hope what I've shared will be of help to Wikitongues moving forward in the work you are doing.

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