South African Zulu Woman Teaching English in China Teaches Chinese Students isiZulu Word

South African Zulu Woman Teaching English in China Teaches Chinese Students isiZulu Word

  • A Zulu woman working in China took a video of her class on an excursion where they saw some animals
  • The teacher's video went viral as she had jokes after teaching the students the word for elephant but in her mother tongue
  • Netizens were amused as they watched the Chinese student learn the Zulu word with eagerness

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One South African who migrated to China to become a teacher was a hit on TikTok. The lady tapped into her home language while on a trip with pupils.

South African teacher tells students isiZulu word for elephant
One teacher in China from South Africa had people laughing as she taught her students isiZulu. Image:@bucyngubo
Source: TikTok

Although she is teaching English, the teacher decided to have fun by exploring isiZulu with them. People were chuffed to see the video of a foreign kid repeating a local South African word.

Zulu woman in China has fun with her students

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A professional teacher @bucyngubo was on a school trip when she told her students that an elephant is "indlovu". Watch the kids repeating the word in the video below:

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Mzansi in tears over Chinese kids speaking isiZulu

IsiZulu is the country's most spoken language, and seeing the foreign students speaking it was hilarious.

Sandile Molefe commented:

"lol, parents paying for English and get isizulu for mahala."

Luyanda commented:

"It’s a zebra, a yakiii"

Khanyie commented:

"Teach them Zulu and fuseg English."

Dumisaniee commented:

"What is so special about Zulu some people still don't understand."

Andiswa commented:

"Nehlule MaNgubobut they pronounce it better than some white SAns."

khanyisilenokubon7 commented:

"so cute hiabo."

Nonie234 commented:

"Lapho Sparks teaches kids broken isiZulu..bathi i Apple,imeat ai bo...well done my darling hope u do well there and they treat u right."

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Briefly News previously reported that these Zulu guys on TikTok were full of jokes. They made a video where they exaggerated their allegiance to being Zulu.

People were in tears as they watched the boys do the most while at Roman's Pizza. The theatrics of their meet-up got over 90 000 likes.

A TikTok by @doqtercabbage shows three Zulu men acting out the way they meet up at a pizza joint. In the video, they all acknowledge each other before placing the pizza on the floor, doing indlamu and sitting on the ground to eat.

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Rutendo Masasi (Human-Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 2 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za

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