Ngiyakubona. Wena umuhle. Wenzani ephusheni lami? Ufike lapha nini? Angikufuni lapha. Angikufuni kodwa ngiyakudinga. Ngiyakuthanda futhi ngifuna ukukuqabula kodwa angifuni ukukubona.
If you speak isiZulu, please let me know where I should improve.
*I corrected the “ephupho” to “epusheni”
Sawubona, yebo, ngi khuluma IsiZulu nje ngo limi loku qala.
You wrote such beautiful IsiZulu there, it’s perfect.
“ePhusheni” is right. I don’t know however was “ephupho” would be.
In IsiZulu, be careful of “e” & “i”, unlike in other languages, the two are very different & can’t write one, but pronounce it to sound like the other. “e” is “eh” and “i” is “ee”.
You wrote beautifully, keep it up.
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Ngiyabonga kakhulu!
I only learned isiZulu for a year, but the classes were very… lacking. I feel as though I still know almost nothing.
In the dictionary, “dream” means “iphupho”. I wanted to say “In my dream”, so initially I thought I would have to change it to “ephupho”. But someone on a (very quiet) Zulu forum corrected it for me. I just have to refresh my knowledge of this a bit.
But I really appreciate your comment! You inspired me to try another one in the coming weeks. I am reluctant to write more because I have no idea how good or bad it is without someone helping out.
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Thank you, you wrote so beautifully, that excerpt read like it was written by a native speaker of IsiZulu.
Please keep writing. Well, people have dropped African languages for English in the age of Twitter & Facebook. I’m not surprised those forum are quite.
Thank you again.
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