The Global Studio does not currently have any resources for Amharic. Some resources that could be purchased include a book titled “The Essential Guide to Amharic: The National Language of Ethiopia”. Another resource could be an Amharic Language Tutorial Program, Amharic 101. One of these is a print resource and the other is a downloadable program so I could switch between the two.
Amharic is not on BYKI or Mango Languages but I did find a couple of resources to bookmark on Diigo. One of the resources I bookmarked is a youtube video which will be useful for me because I can hear the pronunciations of the words as I am learning them. I will supplement these resources with talking to my language partner and engaging in conversation so I can learn how to implement what I am learning.
I have begun to work on my first two language tasks by talking to my language partner and practicing the different greetings and basics of Amharic. I have been practicing my pronunciation and writing out phonetic versions of what I am learning so I can read them back to myself. I have also been practicing making some speech sounds that do not exist in English. They are extremely hard to make and it’s obvious that I’m not a native speaker but one of my goals is to be able to make these sounds before the end of the semester.
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