Learning Irish with Irish Vocabulary Builder
A demo of the Irish Vocabulary Builder for children and adults which teaches more than 100 basic words and phrases.
Check out this learning Irish link to see the video.
Discovering the Amharic Language
May 07
May 04
» Learning Amharic: A Review of Talk Now Amharic
This video reviews Talk Now Amharic; a vocabulary based approach to learning Amharic.The course includes 9 categories with approximately 50 words per category. The course includes two games/quizzes per section and also provides printable dictionaries for the terms introduced.
Apr 07
» Learning Hebrew: The Challenges
Learning Hebrew presents a series of challenges to the individual never exposed to non-Latin based language. At first the challenges seem to be quite significant.
Apr 02
» Spanish for Children: Finding the Right Tool to teach Spanish
While a child has the unique advantage over an adult in learning a new language, teaching a foreign language to a child outside of a fluent context does have challenges. The case of a father or mother who are both fluent in several languages and expose their children to them are in a different position that those that might not have that fluency, but may nevertheless want their children to get a head start on learning a new language.
Oct 15
The famous St.Georg church in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
Oct 11
Discovering the Amharic Language
The Amharic language is spoken by the Amhara ethnic group primarily located in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The Amhara comprise approximately 30 percent of the population, with approximately 27 million speakers.
More than 7 million people also speak it as a second language. It has been the working language of government institutions, the military, and of the Ethiopian Orthodox church, whose roots date back to the 5th century of the Common Era if not earlier.
In addition to Ethiopia, Amharic is also the language of several million emigrants which now reside primarily in Egypt, Israel, and Sweden. Increasing numbers of Ethiopians and Eritreans have also emigrated to the United States in recent years.
Semitic languages, of which Amharic is one, represent a family of languages spoken by more than 300 million people across the Middle East, North Africa, and the horn of Africa. After Arabic, Amharic is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
Amharic is written in the Ge’ez alphabet. As in many languages, there is no agreed upon manner of transliterating the Amharic language into Roman characters.
I found that there are a limited number of materials available for learning the Amharic language. You may want to check out Talk Now Amharic.
