QI | Trevor Noah's Xhosa Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Trevor Noah charms Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies and Jason Manford by singing in Xhosa.
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This clip is from QI Series K, Episode 6, 'Killers' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jason Manford, Trevor Noah and Sandi Toksvig.
As a Xhosa speaking person it's hilarious seeing the amazement in my language 😂
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!
He's trying to talk about something interesting, but instead of listening they're all like "ooh, make that clicking sound again"
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?
I love his facial expressions, how he politely educated them.
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
"If it wasn't for the guns, you guys wouldn't be here" 😂
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 love it when you learn a sound that you've never heard before in language. It's like being introduced to a colour that you never knew existed.
You've perfectly described my experience
That's a fairly good analogy. I like that.
Trevor is so articulate and he has a lovely speaking voice. If he were a professor, I would take his classes, whatever he was teaching.
That man could read the damned phone book on stage & you'd be totally invested in it.
I am Xhosa and I must say it is nice hearing people complimenting your language, siyabulela nto zakuthi😊.
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
Trevor looks a little bit uncomfortable with their obsession with the clicks lol
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.
Interesting to me, being from South Africa, where Xhosa is just another language you hear every day, to see people from other countries go mad over it.
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.
In fairness to Stephen, the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for the sound that the Xhosa spell as X is an exclamation point. So that's what acadrmic linguists use, even if it's not what Xhosa speakers use.
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 |
My goodness Trevor is so attractive. What a beautiful language.
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
Once I met a girl from South Africa, and we talked for hours. We just clicked..
👍👌
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
It sounds very musical to me, and you can't help but be a bit fascinated when you hear a language that has sounds in it that you physically can't figure out how to make. Also, wow, his singing voice is beautiful!
You should hear Xhosa poetry😭😭❤️❤️❤️
Even as a native speaker I find our poetry fascinating all the time🥺
Learn the IPA.
Trevor's face at 1:08 lol like... "...sigh"
LMAO 😂
I could listen to his Xhosa all day. First heard Xhosa spoken about 25 years ago and have loved it ever since.
You speak it?
"If it wasn't of the guns, you guys wouldn't be here."😹😹
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.
😂man being Xhosa is a whole flex
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
Wow, he has a really nice singing voice, all calm and soothing!
I am Zulu🇿🇦. It's so funny how fascinating it is for them to hear him pronounce those sounds😌. But then again I understand they aren't used to 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.
I have been loving this guy for many years.
I always knew he was funny as hell, but I see he is also extremely intelligent.
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.
This is old but it’s always nice hearing Mr. Dimples aka Trevor Noah sing 🤗
I saw Miriam Makeba sing The Click song live at the Village Vanguard in New York City in 1961.
One of the few advantages to being old now...
Trevor looks weirded out but still brings up a educational lesson
I have never seen Sandi smile like that before! That was delightful!
She mentioned Mariam Makeba's Click song. My parents have that album. What a beautiful singing voice she had God rest her soul. Look her up.
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.
Computer instructions: "Click to Enter"
Zulu: "Oh cool! Voice recognition software"
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
Trevor has a beautiful singing voice.
Am proud of you Trevor the fact that u proud of who you are....
I love QI. Such a civilised and entertaining programme.
Trevor was over this ish! I can see it in his face! When I visited south Africa, I learned a couple words in Xhosa. It was amazing and I wish I could learn the language
"You've seduced me." That just about sums everything up. Smh.
And then that sound at 1:04. He might've needed a change of underpants.
Huh. Hardly something to shake your head over.
"Ahh, you've seduced me!"
So nice to see Stephen Fry be the one who's impressed. Must be such a welcome change for him.
That gun joke is hard asf. 😭 Iyaqeqa le kak 😂
Wonderful. Trevor Noah, Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig are marvellous.
“If it wasn’t for the guns, u guys wouldn’t be here” 😂😂😂 ngahleka ngaze ngafa (laughed till I died).
- Zulu
This is why Trevor is so good for The Daily Show, besides the fact that he's really funny (he's a storyteller-style stand-up and you should check out his specials). In the US, we've never really had the African perspective on American comedy. This is why watching Bassem Youssef is so good, too.
wowoow, that's my home language , enkosi Trevor ( thank you Trevor) , wow
Omg! Can't get enough of Trevor Noah! So charming and intelligent!
I took 6 months to learn this language but I’m very good at it now it’s funny hearing Trevor speak it 🤣🤣😂
I will never marry, because I will never meet a man as perfect as Trevor Noah
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 ! :)
I am west african from Ghana. i speak Twi and i love and am proud of my language ans country, sometimes when i speak twi my white friends get excited and ask me to repeat it and i feel a bit awkward and shy and sometimes uncomfy sjsbs, but i also understand the interest. honestly even I find the Xhosa language so beautiful and i find the clicks different and lovely! so i kinda understand the white people freaking out for once 😭.
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
Such a lovely language ♥️
My mom speaks the language from Mozambique but it’s nothing compared to the Xhosa language with all its clicks 💕♥️🌹♥️♥️🌟💕♥️
Being in America and the looks I get when I’m speaking xhosa 😂
I was lucky enough to visit South Africa for a month at the tail end of Mandela's presidency. I lived in a flat in Camp's Bay, Cape Town. I heard Xhosa plus myriad others. Great stuff.
The roast in the table “if you guys didn’t have guns you wouldn’t be here 😂” Love me some Trevor 😂
Just a shame there was and still is a difference in IQ 😉
History lesson be damned! She's ready to risk it all for Trevor over the X, Q and C sounds. 😂😂😂😂
RISK IT ALLLLLLLL!!!!! ROFLMBO!!!
I just want to hear people speaking in Xhosa. It feels so great to hear that sound in between the words. Ahhh! Just wow..
When he said "Xhosa" the click reverberates and it is beautiful. Teach me
This is the sweetest language to listen to.
"if it weren't for the guns you guys wouldn't be here." 🤣🤣
Such a lovely moment - they love his story and love his culture so much 😊
Trevor : "If it weren't for the guns, you guys wouldn't be here"
Everyone else: **scared and ashamed but won't admit it face**
Love how he is explaining Zulu culture along with the langauge.
Xhosa is such a beautiful language.
Trevor Noah is a constant inspiration to me 🙌
One of my all time favorite QI moments
Maybe I should move to America where my language is so appreciated. Proud to be Xhosa.
Even I got stock with that clicking talk...love it...again Trevor!!!
1:07 Trevor is NOT happy with this
Ikrr
He just looks shocked
I loooooove love how Trevaaaah is representing the entire continent. Tunakupenda sana Trevor!
1:04 I’m with you Stephen! I’m a sucker for languages too.
After hearing the clicks for the first time I started looking up more about the language.
Beautiful language... beautiful man 😍
Stephen fry thirsting for trevor is Big Mood
Stephen and Sandi and Trevor are very intellectual , that's why they are so captivated by Trevor
Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele are all Nguni languages and are VERY similar to each other.
He has a beautiful voice.
He always makes people laughing
But I can see something like sad from he's eyes
I saw that too. Maybe he is lonely...
Maybe because he was born a crime
does anyone else get a nostalgic feeling from that language? it seems vaguely familiar, comforting and soothing
As a Zulu girl I'm so proud!!!
Trevor charms everyone!!!!! What a talent!!!!
God bless Frye's fluttering moan to Trevor's singing.
Damn, I gotta learn some Xhosa.
Look at how fascinated they are🤦🏾♀️😂
Frankly, Trevor’s intelligence is without a doubt above many in the world . So much to learn from him, now THat is quite seductive.
Trevor is amazing ❤
I can’t make that awesome snappy *X* sound - my attempts sound more like a poppy *Q* or a snicky *C* . Xhosa is just a fascinating language.
I was a fan already...till I saw this video. Trevor Noah's stock went through the roof in my book.
A crackin' fella
Well, hearing him sing you could say a clickin fella.
I am so proud of you Trevor ✌
If it wasn’t for the guns you guys wouldn’t be here 😂
God I love him
I love listening to khosa language😊
Steve Fry fan girling 😂😂😂
Fucking Stephen Fry.. Bless Trevor for his patience.
Trevor is lovable
Travor Noah.. is a talented and intelligent young man love/peace.
How very, very strange. Trevor’s wonderful, obviously. I mean the behavior of everyone else on the stage.
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
I went to Ireland, and they couldn't figure out my accent. "I have an accent?" I asked. They said it wasn't like anything they heard in Hollywood movies, and they couldn't figure out which state I was from. I was amazed to think I had an accent and replied I'm from Washington state on the border of Washington and Idaho. Anyway, one lady asked me "if I could explain to her the difference between Texan and Mississippi accent? I said one has more twang in it than the other and the vowels have changed on their pronunciation and taught her some examples. I didn't know this, but when I arrived back home in America, I received a letter from the B&B I had stayed at, the lady forwarded a letter from one note said, "I hope this was okay to contact you, a lady asked if could send you a letter. I read the letter, before agreeing to mail it. hope you enjoyed your stay, Kathy." the second note said, "Dear J, I hope this letter finds you well and that Ireland wasn't dreary with its showers, but then you told me about Washington being "Bipolar" when it comes to the weather. I just wanted to say Thank you, as words cannot express my gratitude for your willingness to talk with me about the US and to time out of your holiday night and spend it with me when you could have just said, "Leave me alone." See it's my dream to be actress, but I work 2 jobs and I'm going to school. I seldom have time to study to learn dialects and accents. When I got home that night, I made a decision to try out for a play at my local center and audition for the wife, in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Two days later, there was a call back to do with other actors and at the end of the auditions, the director said this is our full and final cast for the summer and we will be touring part of England! That night I had almost given up on pursuing my dream, but I couldn't do that, F that, not after teaching me for 3 and a half hours or more." If I ever do a movie in the USA, I'm sending an agent after you and you're coming to the premier with me." (By this time, I was laughing and there were tears all over the note) Language is Beautiful and it tears my heart when people try to hide and accent, it's a bit of history that can be shared, from talking.
"You've seduced me". 😂💀👏
*yes*
He never ceases to amaze me ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and this dude now has a man crush on Noah lmao
Stephen Fry is gay so an actual crush haha
Trevor Noah saying "You people wouldn't be here" neither would he 😂😂
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
They're so amazed
The language barrier has always been a bane of human existence and the cause of so many unnecessary conflicts throughout history.
I can easily do those clicks yet I have nothing in common with Xhosa, it's amazing 🤩
Your clicks don't make any sense just like their click "language". So you have more in common than you know.
I still would like to know what Trevor says around 0:59, mostly because the same phrase was a password to his New Years' orgy at the Daily Show.
If it's a password then it's dung beetle...
link to that tds clip, please~~~
Ha!
Several times on this show, they've had a panellist who you think is just some person who's got a bit famous for something simple, then you find out they are really quite intelligent and know lots of really interesting stuff. Makes you look at them in a whole new light. I had vaguely heard of Trevor Noah, but didn't know what he did, but he really knows his history. Dan Radcliffe was the same. Both really nice guys.
But wow, the son of Patricia is just wow!
Trevor is hilarious!!!
I love that brother!!
I move that Trevor sing that song on the daily show. Anyone second that motion?
I speak American English. It's amazing to hear. From what I read before your pallet forms a certain when you develop to make the sounds properly.
Shaka Zulu was not even born when the Xhosa were fighting the British in the Frontier wars. Which were the longest colonial war in Africa. Europeans had the toughest with their colonial conquest in South Africa at that 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.