Sisipho Zikhona Ndamase I am a Canadian boy with not an ounce of African blood in me and I would love to learn Xhosa :)

Yazi😂😂😂

I thought clicking sounds were just spoken by a few people somewhere near the namibe desert. very surprised languages with millions of speakers have it. It seems so hard to do for someone like me with a vowel heavy native language.

It's because it's beautiful :)

It truly is amazing, I wish I could make those clicks and sounds!

You've perfectly described my experience

That's a fairly good analogy. I like that.

laughterislife1114 explained to them, you mean

Shame he changed when he got that big TV show. I used to like him

Except the bit about "soaked leather". That was a lie. They soaked the shields in boiling glue, for starters. It helped against spear and arrow penetration. It might stop pistol or musket loaded with poor quality powder and shot, in the early 19th century. By the time of the Zulu wars, a Martini Henry would go through it at 2000 yards.

@@annother3350 He didn't change

@@TanyaOwens He's always been shit?! OK i'm not going to argue with that but he;s nothing but an establishment mouthpiece these days. Terrible

Brian Ncube well, it takes intelligence and inventions to be a successful culture.

@@joshuajackson4742 and a lot of raping and pillaging !

LittleGirlBlue you’re 100 % right

@morton christie what weed are you smoking! Your sheer lack of knowledge is astounding.

@morton christie if u weren't ridiculous and stupid, what would you like to be? It's you against History. And if u don't believe the whites raped, congrats, u are the most naief piece of shit on Earth.

I know it's frustrating that they are interrupting him all the time.

The story he is telling is factually inaccurate. They just don't have enough knowledge on the matter to confront him but they are obviously sceptical.

dinnae lol

@@chigeh British lost terribly to the Zulus they went back home crying.

They were listening to what he was saying. Stephen is even joining in with his own questions. So... let’s not get offended at everything, k?

That man could read the damned phone book on stage & you'd be totally invested in it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that

Oh

I think thats just the case whenever anyone asks a bilingual to speak their second language. I speak fluent french but the second someone does the whole "Say something, say somehing!" Thing I feel super awkward and never know what to say. He looked like he eased up when they asked about the song rather than just asking him to speak.

@@PanTheGu I have a question! I see a lot of people using the term bilingual but i'm not so sure as to what is actually the meaning of it. Is it just being able to speak two or more languages? Am I bilingual as a dutch man who speaks dutch (obviously) and fluent english? never mind german or french, which isn't all that great.

Bi - suffix meaning 2; lingual - of language (literally, of the tongue). So it means someone who's capable of speaking two languages (usually near) fluently. Phrases above "bilingual" are "trilingual:" 3, and "qudrilingual:" 4. If it's five or more, by that point, the person is a polyglot.

jabu sakasa So are you comfortable with him saying Xhosa speaking people originated from Zulu's? coz I'm not

@@viwembande9497 Yes that part was wrong, he is very misinformed about his own culture and history. There are Zulu tribes that separated from the Zulus Kingdom and blended into Xhosa Kingdoms e.g Amabhaca, but not the entire Xhosa Nation. That part made me cringe.

I need someone to help me with a short Xhosa translation of a children's song about the coronavirus, please. You can save lives. Please reply asap if you can help.

@@Graanvlok I am sorry I am only seeing this now... what would you like me to translate?

@@viwembande9497 I am not he is truly not well informed I see, but I just focused on the positive because he already said it and I can not take it back

👍👌

That pun though...

That was a great pun. Trevor loves puns

I heard that from Jimmy Carr. But i think this joke has been around for ages. Never gets old.

Lol I hate you

Being ZULU is the flex.

@@neobuthelezi9283 Were like royal, zulus are like our military.

@@zukilentunja2720 lol very important for royalty to have a military mos akunjalo?

​@@neobuthelezi9283 this is true. You must understand South African history. better than most

Mountbatten Windsor lol and to me and others here he is our most famous coloured representative. Lol he is ok looking I suppose you should see the rest...some amazing looking coloured guys here in sa

vanetia mentor I definitely have a visit to SA on my bucket list.

Thought you stood down cuz you couldn't stand up any longer, Philip?

thank you our language is truly beautiful xhosa for life

Mountbatten Windsor you should hear Xhosa music,the sweetest in africa

LMAO 😂

Anja Fourie i know right

Pigeon because being intrigued by other languages and cultures is somehow reflective of your take on politics, right? Makes PERFECT sense!

Bruh😂😂

It's so different from any language I (and probably most of the people listening to this) have ever heard, and it's captivating. To my knowledge there is no language with similar sounds outside of Africa, and unfortunately there isn't much real culture from African countries in our TV programs. We just see the impoverished or rural areas, dubbed over by an English-speaking translator.

minnybri Other languages in South Africa can also be described as 'click languages'. Such as Zulu, Khoisan, Swazi, Sotho, etc. South Africa has 11 official languages where Xhosa is one of them.

Probably what Stephen was thinking of. A small correction though: the exclamation mark in IPA is used for the second click that Trevor does (the q in Xhosa).

mutoso oops my bad. You're right.

It's also written with exclamation marks in the !Kung language.

Yeah the Xh is actually an aspirated lateral click

The Q is the !, I believe X is || and C is |

You should hear Xhosa poetry😭😭❤️❤️❤️

Even as a native speaker I find our poetry fascinating all the time🥺

Learn the IPA.

You speak it?

Yeah I'm from Senegal 🇸🇳 and i love it. You guys also have beautiful names too Like African names for real I have been in your amazing country for 5 years.

It's funny cuz he wouldn't be too, being a mixed race. Get it?

"Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not." - Hilaire Belloc. Maxim, with the design of the gun bearing his name in 1884, was an essential contributor to the latter days of Empire. It was a force multiplier that no one could match without an opposing machine gun.

Hell is not funny, I don’t think there’s any laughter there, try heaven, I am very sure, you will laugh there😊

@@tilliakawuma6870 Wow really, funny as hell is just an expression. Honestly I question whether or not hell is real or not if the Lord is so forgiving.

4daluvofnikki the only reason I read the comments was to find this, thank you

O3o aww she has my name

Mine too...played many times on the record player! In Ghana...memories.

As soon as she mentioned her, I remembered "Pata Pata", which might be the catchiest song ever made.

I'm divorced, and decided I'll never re marry unless it's Trevor or some one very much like him 🥰 Smart, educated, informed, respectful, kind, funny and with those darn cute dimples that you just want to pinch his cheeks! 😁😍😍 I'm going to one of his shows in a couple of months and am def brining a big board saying "Trevor marry me!" 😂😁 Hehe, big fat chance he'll even see the board, let alone me in the big crowd, but hey, what have I to lose? 😂😁🙈😂

@@k.l.8804 yeah, sorry. No dimples.

Real talk

Literally

@@k.l.8804 Smart, educated, informed, respectful, kind, funny and with those darn cute dimples .............me,me,me,me,me,me..........dammit , no dimples :( ..........i need dimples ! someone help ! :)

Not Zulu, Xhosa

@@KitchenSinkSoup Zulu also does have clicks, just far fewer

I've had a lllloooonnngggg-ass day. DIdn't really mean to fall into the comments...just trying to unwind from the forEVER hours before now and you, raven lord, had me laughing out loud. Thank you!

@@lowleypeasentmr.l8836 Not really. Zulu has the same amount of clicks as Xhosa, Zulu people at Gauteng/Johannesburg use them a bit less because the language is diluted by Sotho and Afrikaans, but the Zulu people at KwaZulu Natal use them as much as Xhosa people. So it depends on the location and culture. I am Zulu, by the way.

@@k9fangamvs53 i guess im out of touch

And then that sound at 1:04. He might've needed a change of underpants.

Huh. Hardly something to shake your head over.

Hi there! Im half Ewe and half Xhosa. My father is a Twi speaking Ewe man who came to South Africa in the 80s and married a Xhosa woman. I have to say that Twi is an awesome language and sounds like a poem being read!! One Love from SA

@@fila5885 Woww oh my goodness that is so beautiful!!! two different cultures but all the same family 💗💗💗 Twi and Xhosa are such beautiful languages!! I feel like Xhosa sounds like a lullaby, and Twi also has a very songy tone. what a lovely family u have

RISK IT ALLLLLLLL!!!!! ROFLMBO!!!

Ikrr

He just looks shocked

Just a shame there was and still is a difference in IQ 😉

I saw that too. Maybe he is lonely...

Maybe because he was born a crime

Well, hearing him sing you could say a clickin fella.

How is it creepy? Interrupting a person during a panel show is not exactly unusual. Or indeed, at any other time.

Phalo Tshawe Lets forgive Trevor , we all know Xhosa's did not originate from Zulu's. Let's just give Mr Noah his moment, his doing wonders. Let's just pretend he never said that.

@@viwembande9497 he wanted to say we from the same clan, argh don't be saucy, really inferiority towards other tribes = tribalism

@@Nombulelo_ace Im not sure if we watched the same Video BUT just like Trevor, I will forgive you because you dont know what you are talking about. I invite you to read my comment again.

@@Nombulelo_ace It is not tribalism, he should just stop spreading misinformation. I am Xhosa and I don't think other tribes are inferior to mine and vice versa.

He's the young gorgeous one. I suspect they're just seeing who can make him blush the hardest.

Not everyone. Stephen and sandi

Vicky Valentine wypipo sexualize everything.....they get turned on by “savageness”

Strange? I’ve found and learned that song because I liked the sounds so much!!!

@@carbonoriginal6743 it's because she isn't really funny and British audience laughs any time someone swears or says something sexual or inappropriate. It's like little children sniggering at been naughty

He would probably be there but not mixed race🤣🤣

@@Khanyisani_Bill then he wouldn't exist lol

@@neverknew3343 he would just a different race

Hes not British it wouldn’t make a difference

@@elizabethrukmanis9227 lol true that

I'm from the Ndebele tribe, but it's very fitting that my surname is Mnguni

Right here

Yimi lo

True, all nguni tribes (xhosa, zulu, ndebele and swati) all click but xhosas have more clicks because they are half nguni and half thwa which are the khoisan people whom their language was only clicks, so nguni mixed with thwa(khoisan) became xhosa even the word xhosa is a khosan word meaning fierce or angry...

@@lungibawuti4868 Lungi that is factually not correct Nguni people and Sotho/ Tswana have Khoisan ancestry ( study done by wits university) Regardless of the tribe as u move more into the interior of South Africa the more visible the Khoisan phenotype it's mostly prominent amongst the South African women the interbreeding of Khoisan and Bantu speaking farmers is very old in South Africa ( probably a thousand years old ) the adoption of clicks by Nguni people is proof the history u have is basically Apartheid government history ( mind u it's not only language where Khoisan is influential but culture and social structure)