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(lots of background noise, music)

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(singing in xhosa, unintelligible talking)

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Now in the Xhosa language, we have three clicking sounds.

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Which makes this language, a bit of a different, goony language

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because Zulu's a bit similar to Xhosa,

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Swati and Dbele

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but Xhosa has got these three clicking sounds.

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the first one is 'c', so

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the pronunciation of 'c' is [ǀ] (dental click)

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[ǀa ǀe ǀi ǀo ǀu] (repeats twice)

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Can you do that?

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(he cannot do that)

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Yes, and then there is...

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...sort of like Chinese, eh?...

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(laughs good naturedly. THIS IS NOT LIKE CHINESE)

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The second is 'x'

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the pronunciation is [ǁ] (lateral click)

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[ǁa ǁe ǁi ǁo ǁu] (he says it twice)

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(other guy tries to do it)

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I can't do it when I'm saying it at the same time.[br]

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is it ...(tries again)?

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Yeah, that's difficult.

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Okay.[br]

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Then the last one is the 'q'

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'q' = [ǃ] (postalveolar click)

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[ǃa ǃe ǃi ǃo ǃu] (repeats)

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(other guy tries it - it's pretty wrong)

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You are a very excellent student!

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(laughs)

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And then let me do the sentences since I'm not...[br]

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yeah yeah

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...gonna make it hard for you.

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to make, to repeat them.[br]

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(laughs)

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But that will be the clicking, um, sentences

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starting with the 'c' one.

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(these sentences have many clicks)

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(they are in Xhosa, so I can not transcribe them - but they go in order)

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So the meanings

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(first sentence, lots of 'c' [ǀ] sounds)

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'close the door tightly, so that no air will penetrate'.

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The 'x' one (lots of 'x' [ǁ] sounds)

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'The old man had an appointment

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with his friend. HIs friend did not turn up.[br]

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He panicked, became very angry

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and moved to another place'.

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The 'q' one (lots of 'q' [ǃ] sounds)

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'A squirrel went up the top of the hill

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decided to roll back to the bottom'.[br]

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(more background noise)

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(music)