Learn Shona
Shona is one of many Bantu languages that cover a huge geographical area of sub Saharan Africa. They come from an oral tradition and uTalk has the widest range of them to learn in the market. Nouns are classified differently, for example according to whether they're an animal, plant, or human and this can change the way a sentence works. But don't worry you’ll soon get the hang of it.
Learn Shona with uTalk
Where Is It Spoken?
Zimbabwe
Number Of Speakers
11,000,000
Language Family
Bantu
Fun facts about Shona
The language has borrowed many words from other languages such as 'yunivhesiti' (university) and 'motokari' (car) from English.
Clapping your hands is a gesture which accompanies greetings and can also mean thank you. Men clap with flat hands and women clap with cupped hands.
A Shona proverb says: 'It's a marvel to see a leopard playing with a goat' which suggests that something suspicious is going on! (Manenji kuona kamba ichitamba nembudzi.)
Over 30 million people have started speaking a new language with uTalk
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