Masabelane ngesiXhosa! Let us share in isiXhosa: Beginner isiXhosa for staff

Name: Masabelane ngesiXhosa! Let us share in isiXhosa: Beginner isiXhosa for staff
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Masabelane ngesiXhosa! That means, ‘Let us share in isiXhosa’. We are inviting you to come and share in the language and culture of isiXhosa during your lunch hour.

This is an eight-week course (two-hour sessions per week), open to Stellenbosch University staff members. Our Masabelane course aims to teach you about the isiXhosa language and its culture, and to enable you to engage in meaningful conversation at beginner level. Through this course you will empower yourself to put multilingualism into practice in the office and in the lecture hall.

2022 course dates

5 April – 25 May (you can still register!)
9 May – 27 June (on hold)

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Presenters

Zandile Kondowe – Zandile has been teaching isiXhosa language and literature for several years at Stellenbosch University and Nelson Mandela University. She is a passionate lecturer who enjoys sharing her love for the isiXhosa language and its culture with her students up to postgraduate level. Zandile believes that learning a new language connects people from different cultures and creates a space for people to grow. She enjoys helping her students become part of a broader isiXhosa culture in an encouraging learning and teaching environment.

Location

Online

We will focus on the following themes to enhance your ability to communicate in isiXhosa:

Greeting people and making introductions
Asking about someone’s health and feelings
Inviting someone for a drink or something to eat
Ordering something to drink and eat at a restaurant
Identifying kitchen contents
Making and answering telephone calls
Speaking about the weather
Naming the months and days of the week
Setting up formal and informal appointments
Giving directions
Asking for help at a filling station

This course is presented over eight weeks. We use a communicative approach to teaching, which means that you will learn isiXhosa in a fun and exciting way. Normally we will have face-to-face contact sessions of two hours per week, but at the moment those sessions are conducted online. We use MS Teams and SUNLearn as platforms for our online activities, and study material is provided.

We love interacting with you to give you the practice you need so that you can become confident in speaking the language. There will be speaking tasks at a lower beginner level as well as group interaction with the presenter.

You need to attend all the sessions; there are no tests, but you will be continuously assessed on the basis of your participation in class.

You need a smart phone with WhatsApp to receive messages about the content, tasks due and activities. We recommend a computer with internet access and a microphone to participate in the live sessions on MS Teams and to complete the online activities outside of class.

Any Stellenbosch University staff member with no previous knowledge of isiXhosa.

To register for this course, contact Nwabisa Madikane.

You will receive a certificate of attendance after you have completed the course successfully.

You will not only learn a new language but will also be empowered with multilingual and multicultural skills. You may also find that you can connect better with students and colleagues in basic isiXhosa conversations. In addition, you will be able to start appreciating isiXhosa as a regional language and its position as an official language in South Africa.