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This app by Mahibere Kidusan has the year’s fasting calendar for the EOTC, including the monthly and yearly feasts. The links for App Store and Play Store are below.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tewahedo/id720274202
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MkUs.tewahedo&hl=en_US&gl=US
Possibly the worst set of graphs I've ever seen
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https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728
Aren't the Amharic words for 6 and 7 similar to the Egyptian Arabic words for the same? Sidist and Sabbat? And the word for "10" -- A'sir / A'shir
Formajo -- from Italian for cheese "Formaggio" Machina -- Car (Italian) Aeroplan - Airplane (Italian)
And there are many more listed here:
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/9701832/Amharic-Words-You-ll-Recognise-If-You-Speak
The FSI Course seems to be decent if you want to learn proper pronounciation. I think it doesnt have a lot in the way of grammar, it's mostly drills, but I've been using it to learn the various vowels and consonants (which are rather hard to learn without listening to recordings or having at least a decent background in IPA).
For learning Ge'ez script, I recommend Anki. There's a free Ge'ez script you can download.
The Fundamentals of Amharic by C.H. Dawkins is the grammar introduction I'm studying from, but it's rather dry and linguistically-minded, it might be hard for a layman to parse. Other grammar books of which I am aware of (but which I haven't used) are Introductory Grammar of Amharic by Wolf Leslau and the most recent one, Essentials of Amharic by Anbessa Teferra & Grover Hudson. I recommend you look at them and see if they're to your taste, but I'm not aware of any other grammar resources. Otherwise, look for Colloquial Amharic.
EDIT: Also, check out /r/amharic.
If you have acess to amazon, you can order Meskel teff flour. Little expensive but that's one option. Good luck!
Here is one fir a 3×5 foot polyester flag with no emblem. Looks like the product has decent rating too.
I really think you should go, you won't stand out at all if you dress modest. You don't have to wear a netella but if you have one or can buy one, Id recommend it. Also there are Ethiopian Orthodox bibles that are translated into English that you can download on your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.candle.mike.orthodoxbible&hl=en\_US&gl=US
A little off topic here, but just wanted to share a research opportunity with any native Tigrinya speakers on this thread! I am looking for native Tigrinya speakers to participate in a paid study on language translation. The session would consist of a 90 minute Zoom interview with a researcher and you would be compensated $250 as a thank you for your time. Please use the link here for more details:
Another tip: use an app for taxi, dont use normal taxis, the price is much higher. I had good experience with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feres.user&hl=en&gl=US
But they cant really read maps in Ethiopia and you have to tell them the way / special place you are at most of the time.
Well I saw one photo with that title, so I thought so too. But further research showed me “An Abyssinian Girl from the book ' The living races of mankind ' a popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts & ceremonies of the races of mankind throughout the world by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, and Henry Neville Hutchinson Published in London by Hutchinson & Co. in 1902”
Additionally, I found another photo of a different woman dressed quite similarly below and she was also named as an Abyssinian woman. Could it possibly be they are both from Egypt but named as Abyssinian due to a lack of understanding or laziness? Or are these Ethiopian women? I only know of highlander Ethiopians and Eritreans being called Abyssinians. Also, in the photo below with the second woman you can see more clearly that her kemis pattern matches much of how Gojjam women pattern their kemis on the sleeves.
https://www.amazon.com/ETHIOPIA-Abyssinia-Abyssinian-embroidered-jewellery/dp/B008CP2AP8
I actually did not make the graphs myself. I used this site to compare weather between the d/t cities. The site will generate the graphs for you. If you subscribe, you can download the weather history data from the site.
Can recommend Thomas Sowell’s Black rednecks and white liberals. Misguided “goodness” has been effectively weaponized by the TPLF. And white pride, a k a #whitesupremacy will guarantee that they won’t admit they were wrong.
"Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building" by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot. This book briefly covers history before Hailselassie and covers in-depth the period of Haileselassie's fall to 2012. It was released in 2020 just a few months before the genocidal war against Tigray began so is not that well known but the author was able to gather information that had never been public before due to his connections. You can find buy this book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laying-Past-Rest-Challenges-State-Building/dp/1787382915/ref=sr\_1\_1?keywords=laying+the+past+to+rest&qid=1636453954&sr=8-1
It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users. I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!
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i certainly can — https://radiooooo.com
they also have a mobile app. the great thing about that site is you can basically go to any era, and if available, upon the era you choose you can hear all sorts of wonderful sounds from your selected country (your case being ethiopia). hope you enjoy and find some musical gems.
Imagine if the Stephanites movement had succeeded? Still religious but a relatively less superstitious one.
There is a great Amharic book on Stephanites by Getachew Haile (http://website.informer.com/visit?domain=good-amharic-books.com). He also wrote an English book on them but it isn’t free online.
>I don’t think NO ONE should be forced to learn Amharic and in the age of technology any Federally broadcast communication can easily be translated into the relevant local language when being broadcast.
Well then, where are these broadcasts?
>Can you prove this issue? As in Ethiopian education standards regressing or being less competitive than nations w similar capabilites? And what makes you think language has a causal affect on this? Could it not be other variables? There’s a literacy problem but not a quality of education problem, as I understand it & this isn’t due to language.
There has been much research on this topic if you bothered to Google. A comprehensive study can be found here. But you don't even need a study, the problems of multiple language of instructions in a single country are glaringly obvious.
There’s only one novel of his left on Amazon! Get it before it’s gone!
How to Make Love in a Canoe: Sex in Canada https://www.amazon.com/dp/1926677722/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_PSV75K6ZY54AVY61Y6FG
Why you mad? Obviously I linked the page on imgur for you to read. The Somali region is often referred to as Ogaden. But the ‘Somali region’ is a territory that, in reality, is part of Somalia and the Somali people.
The discussion on the colonization of that territory by Ethiopia and other nations is mentioned further in the book. If you want to read it fully hear it is: Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia https://www.amazon.com/dp/1403967431/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_BN5PZNV585XJXEQJ29A1
You said you need evidence so I am providing you documentation for you to refer to if you are truly interested. If not, that is your prerogative.
This book was written before the current conflict and narrates how ethiopia prevailed over italy 1935-1941. You can buy it on amazon.
Geez, the script is 5000 years old, possibly older, and is derived from hieroglyphics. Because earlier Canaanites were people similar to Ethiopians, I guess thats how Ethiopic influenced East Semitic languages. Furthermore, there are two cities called Amara, one in Egypt and others in Meroe. And during the 18th dynasty, there was a Pharoah named Amenhotep (supposedly the great-grandson of Queen of Saba and Solomon) who ruled Egypt after conquering it from Axum. I dont know his identity; I wanna say it may have been Amenhotep III because Amara ("Amarna") letters were used during his rule to communicate with ancient Near East...so that could be a connection.
This is an excellent book to read; then you can do your research.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/952357230X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_mzK3Db52W8D6X
Neat book in Afaan Oromo. Idk if you have Amazon in your area though :/ i thought sharing would be nice though. Have a good day.
Hello, I am in Ethiopian born and raised in the US and I have very minimal understanding of Amharic. I bought This, i'm not sure where to start learning. I assume I should memorize the alphabet before anything? I will be supplementing my learning my asking my mom to only speak to me in Amharic and by keeping an Amharic journal. Right now the journal is very difficult to keep since I don't understand the alphabet thus I have to look up every single word before writing it. Please advise me on how to begin learning and thank you.
There's this expensive book which is used in universities and this list of language resources from Reddit.
Love until Grave is translated as Love unto Crypt, but has mediocre reviews in English due to the quality of translation.
Here's a link for a dictionary: http://www.amharicdictionary.com/ This is a pretty good resource: http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Amharic-Series-David-Appleyard/dp/0415671795 It covers the script and alphabet as well as phonetic spelling using our character set. you should also get the CD that comes with it for the aural lessons.
I also recommend that you spend time at the nearest Ethiopian church. Preachers of all languages tend to enunciate much more clearly than normal conversation. They will be so happy for you to attend! The big churches even may have a translator for you.
The language is fairly simple with a small vocabulary and its extremely systematic, however, the whole philosophy behind it is radically different from our culture so it will take a minute to wrap your head around it....but its fantastically colorful, expressive and polite .... just for example, there is no word for "no" ...