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Xitsonga

Your first steps in Xitsonga (Tsonga or Shangaan), spoken in South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng) and southern Mozambique (as Changana): greet, introduce yourself, count, shop, find your way, talk about your health, your family and your home, and build your first sentences, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

A1 · Beginner — Foundations

About Xitsonga Hi Xitsonga

Vatsongathe Tsonga people
Mutsongaone Tsonga person
Xitsongathe language (also Changana / Shangaan)

You are seeing 3 of 194 words and phrases, across 16 modules. Every one of them comes with practice exercises.

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