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The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa's oldest university, and is one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions.
On January 28 I will be landing, for the first time in my life, in the African continent.I will arrive at Cape Town, the Mother City, where I will stay until the 8th of July. I will stay at the University of Cape Town where I will take classes and I will do a Service Learning Program.
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa's oldest university, and is one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions.
Interesting facts about South Africa
Xhosa (pronounced [ˈkǁʰoːsa] , isiXhosa) is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation. One of the most distinctive features of the language is the prominence of click consonants; The word "Xhosa," the name of the language itself, begins with a click.
Xhosa is written using a Latin alphabet-based system. Three letters are used to indicate the basic clicks: c for dental clicks, x for lateral clicks, and q for palatal clicks (for a more detailed explanation, see the table of consonant phonemes, below). Tones are not indicated in the written form.
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