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naomi94
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21 March 2012 at 6:34am | IP Logged 
Can anyone help me understand the Amharic Alphabet?

Edited by newyorkeric on 24 June 2012 at 12:58pm

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Michael K.
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21 March 2012 at 1:01pm | IP Logged 
Here's a video by Moses McCormick, maybe this will help.

How to learn Amharic letters
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clumsy
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21 March 2012 at 3:21pm | IP Logged 
Welcome to the world of Amharic.
I am trying to learn it too, and so far I cannot say I have learned it, but I think reading texts with transliteration directly under it is helpful, it helped me with Burmese.

There is a free DLI 200 hours familiarization course on Amharic for free and legal download.
Just try to read it, looking both at the text and transliteration associating the signs with the pronuntiation and after some time you should be all right.
I have found that learning scripts from a list is not very effective.
Tried Cherokee on memrise, and I am feeling I could have learnt it in much shorter time using "the Burmese way" described above.
but everybody has different way of learning a script, I believe.
So it depends.
Good luck anyway.

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daristani
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21 March 2012 at 5:59pm | IP Logged 
The mother of all Amharic courses can be downloaded free from here:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Amharic

The Indiana University URL cited there has changed, though; the complete audio can now be downloaded from here:

http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/amharic_a400.html




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