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isiXhosa

A C2 mastery pack reaching into proverbs and their wisdom, oratory and shifting register, praise and naming, for speakers moving toward near-native command, with a say-it-like guide and the click sounds.

C2 · Near-Native Fluency

Proverbs & their wisdom Amaqhalo nobulumko

iqhaloa proverb / sayingee-[q]AH-loh

Umntu ngumntu ngabantuA person is a person through other peopleoom-NTOO ngoom-NTOO ngah-BAHN-too

Intaka yakha ngoboya benyeA bird builds with another's feathers (we help one another)een-TAH-kah YAH-khah ngoh-BOH-yah BEH-nyeh

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