{"id":985,"date":"2010-02-02T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:26:02","slug":"counting-to-10-in-zulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/counting-to-10-in-zulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting to 10 in Zulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth and I have (slowly) been working on our <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/siswati-language-resources\/\">siSwati<\/a> in\u00a0preparation\u00a0for our <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2009\/07\/11\/the-kingdom-of-swaziland-part-1\/\">move<\/a>. \u00a0Since siSwati is only spoke by 1.5 million people in the world (0.02% of the world&#8217;s population) there is not a whole lot of learning resources. \u00a0Because siSwati is related to the Zulu language, we have also been looking at some of those lessons. \u00a0Below you will find a video clip of the numbers from 1-10. \u00a0We were feeling pretty good about things until we got about half way through things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"Metacafe_2380003\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/fplayer\/2380003\/learn_zulu_numbers_for_free_with_byki.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/fplayer\/2380003\/learn_zulu_numbers_for_free_with_byki.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" name=\"Metacafe_2380003\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/2380003\/learn_zulu_numbers_for_free_with_byki\/\">Learn Zulu Numbers for Free with Byki<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>What are the chances we can 5-10 years without using the numbers 7-9?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth and I have (slowly) been working on our siSwati in\u00a0preparation\u00a0for our move. \u00a0Since siSwati is only spoke by 1.5 million people in the world (0.02% of the world&#8217;s population) there is not a whole lot of learning resources. \u00a0Because siSwati is related to the Zulu language, we have also been looking at some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[503,424,502,762,38,501],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swaziland","tag-counting","tag-language","tag-numbers","tag-swaziland","tag-youtube","tag-zulu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}