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Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

A Chinese university has established a Zulu programme to enable students there to learn the language, thus strengthening ties between the two countries. The Beijing Foreign Studies University has set ...

A prominent university in South Africa will make learning the Zulu language compulsory for all incoming students starting next year, the first time the country’s higher education sector has ever made ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

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The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...

Google has added a number of languages to Google Translate including Zulu, Xhosa and Swahili and it reckons that it will translate these languages rather effectively. The reason behind this claim is ...

Huang Lizhi returned to Beijing early last year after five years studying Zulu — the most widely spoken language in South Africa — at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Huang, a ...

Even though South Africa remains a highly popular destination spot for most travelers, very few people grab the opportunity to learn Zulu, which is among the nation’s official languages. This likely ...