It’s ‘where has the year gone?’ season again. Soon, ‘this year, I’ll be superhuman’ season will be upon us, where we all descend on the gym like locusts that have developed a taste for treadmills.

I, too, am not immune to the allure of a sparkling New Year resolution, but I’m also patently, evidently bad at sticking to them. Case in point: ‘Learn isiXhosa’ has been a recurring feature for years. Ndithetha kancinci, but very limited and badly. Year after year, it goes back on the list, looking like some kind of Fast & Furious spin-off: Learn Xhosa, 2Learn 2Xhosa, Xhosa III, X4…