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Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners
✍ Scribed by David Appleyard
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 400
- Series
- The colloquial series
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
COLLOQUIAL AMHARIC is easy to use and completely up to date!
Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Amharic.
No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes this new edition of COLLOQUIAL AMHARIC your best choice in personal language learning?
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Interactive — lots of exercises for regular practice
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Clear — concise grammar notes
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Practical — useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
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Complete — including answer key and reference section
Whether you're a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday — if you'd like to get up and running with Amharic, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.
This version of the paperback also contains two CDs of audio material, providing the complete COLLOQUIAL AMHARIC course. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Abstract
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Preface to the new edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 ሰላምታ sälamta (Greetings)
2 (ትምህርት ቤት bätïmhïrt bet (At school)
3 ድንገተኛ ገንኙነት dïngatäñña gïnïhhunnat (A chance meeting)
4 og 108 መሄድ wada gäbäya mähed (Going shopping)
5 የሩቅ ጥሪ yaruk’ t'ïrri (A long-distance call)
6 ücäc ማቀድ SïrïSSïr mak'k'äd (Planning a trip)
7 ደብዳቤ መጻፍ däbdabbe mäs'af (Writing a letter)
8 ቱሪዝም በኢትዮጵያ turizm bäityop'p'ïya (Tourism in Ethiopia)
9 ብሔራዊ ምገብ ቤት bïherawi mïgïb bet (An Ethiopian restaurant)
10 2 ሆስፒታል መሔድ wada hospital mahed (Going to the hospital)
11 ብሔራዊ በዓል bïherawi baal (A national holiday)
12 ጉብኝት በአዲስ አበባ gubïnnït bäAddis Ababa (A tour of Addis Ababa)
13 መጽሔትና ጋዜጣ mäs'hetïnna gazet'a (Magazines and newspapers)
14 አንዳንድ የመጽሔት መጣጥፎች andand yämäs'het mat’ at’ïfoc (Some magazine articles)
Key to exercises
Grammatical tables
Amharic-English glossary
Grammatical and subject index
Amharic index
✦ Subjects
Amharic
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