Author name: Njabulo Masondo

Uthi bewazi? (Did you know?)

‘Isitolo sokudlela’ kusho ‘indawo yokudlela’ ngesiNgisi. Uma unkamisa wokuqala eshintsha abe ‘e’, isibonelo: ‘esitolo sokudlela’, incazelo ishintsha ngokuphelele. Incazelo manje ithi ‘esitolo sokudlela’. (‘Isitolo sokudlela’ means ‘restaurant’ in English. If the initial vowel changes to ‘e’, for example: ‘esitolo sokudlela’, the meaning changes completely. The meaning is now ‘in the restaurant’.)

Uthi bewazi? (Did you know?)
Amagama abolekiwe afana nelithi ‘iposi’ (iposi) kanye nelithi ‘siyini’ (indawo yokudlela) athathwe kwezinye izilimi njengesiBhunu nesiNgisi. (Borrowed words such as ‘iposi’ (post office) and ‘siyini’ (restaurant) are borrowed from other languages such as Afrikaans and English.)

frequency: the number of times an event occurs

tally: a mark used to keep count of the number of times something happens

Ubuwazi? (Did you know?)

‘Itafula’ is an isiZulu word borrowed from an Afrikaans word ‘tafel’.

Khumbula!(Remember!)

Any noun that starts with ‘i’ their subject concord is zi ie. Uweta iyashesha.

namhlanje: today
kusasa: tomorrow
ngempela sonto: during the weekend
olwandle: at/to the beach
kulungile: it is fine
cabanga (think)
cela (request)
ncoma (praise)
cosha (pick up)

Het jy geweet?

Seekoeie lyk baie groot en lomp. Hulle is gevaarliker as die groot vyf! Die groot vyf diere is die olifant, die leeu, die renoster, die buffel en die luiperd. Seekoeie kan vinnig hardloop met daardie lompe lyf en hulle tande kan ʼn mens lelik seermaak.

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ʼn Seekoeibul is die manlike dier en seekoeikoei is die vroulike dier. Die dier staan bekend as ʼn seekoei en daarom kry dit ʼn -bul vir manlike en -koei vir vroulik by.

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Did you know?

When you talk to your friends, always look them in the eye.
When you do a presentation, make eye contact with the audience to show them that you know that they are there.
Use your voice: speak up and pronounce the words clearly.

Take a deep breath before you start, inhaling and exhaling slowly.
Then take another breath and start, while smiling at your audience.

Do not fiddle, stand up tall but be relaxed.

Speak at an easy pace:
not too fast and not too slow.

iqhawe- umuntu onesibindi

ukuba nesibindi- ukungesabi

ungumpheme- ungumvikeli

isiphethu- yilapho kuphuma khona amanzi emhlabathini

ukugobhoza- ukugeleza

inhliziyo emnene- inhliziyo enozwelo