There is so much more to knowing a language than being able to recite phrases parrot-fashion. Language usage is fluid and one can never predict what is going to be said next. To meet this challenge, it is important to know the basic grammatical principles of a language that will enable you to generate sentences of your own.

It has often been said that isiXhosa is a difficult language to learn. This is only so because it is so different to our own mother tongue. Yet there is a very logical structure to isiXhosa, far more so than there is to English in fact, and I am going to try to explain this to you in as simple a way as possible. I hope that at the end of it all, you will agree with me in saying that isiXhosa is indeed logically structured and easy and that you will “click” with the language.

This course is therefore intended for the student who has some prior knowledge of IsiXhosa and wishes to know how unravel the mystery of how the “nuts and bolts” of the language fit together without getting too bogged down in linguistic terminology.

I hope you find this learning experience beneficial.