David Appleyard

Colloquial Amharic (eBook, ePUB)

The Complete Course for Beginners

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course in Amharic as it is written and spoken today. This third edition offers new and updated vocabulary and key revisions to the text to reflect changes in language and culture.

Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Amharic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, grammatical tables, and a glossary can be found at the back, as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills
• Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar
• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises
• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations
• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Ethiopia
• An overview of the sounds of Amharic

Balanced, comprehensive, and rewarding, Colloquial Amharic is an indispensable resource for both independent learners and students taking courses in Amharic.

Additional resources and audio material to accompany the course are available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills. Additional information on writing the Amharic script can also be found here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2025
• Englisch, Amharisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040298657
• Artikelnr.: 73069866

Autorenporträt

David Appleyard is Professor Emeritus of the Languages of the Horn of Africa at the University of London, UK. He taught Amharic there for just over thirty years and has published extensively on various Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, as well as on Amharic literature and traditional culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Greetings 2 At school 3 Going to a restaurant 4 A chance meeting 5 Going shopping 6 Planning a trip 7 Writing a letter 8 Tourism in Ethiopia 9 An Ethiopian restaurant 10 Going to the hospital 11 A national holiday 12 A tour of Addis Ababa 13 Magazines and newspapers 14 Some magazine articles Grammatical tables Key to exercises Amharic-English glossary Grammatical index Amharic index.

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Introduction 1
sälamta Greetings 2
bätïmhïrt bet At school 3
dïngätäñña gïnïññunnät A chance meeting 4
wädä gäbäya mähed Going shopping 5
yäruk
t
ïrri A long-distance call 6
ïrïïr mak
k
äd Planning a trip 7
däbdabbe mäs
af Writing a letter 8
turizm bäityop
p
ïya Tourism in Ethiopia 9
bïherawi mïgïb bet An Ethiopian restaurant 10
wädä hospital mähed Going to the hospital 11
bïherawi bäal A national holiday 12
gubïññït bäAddis Abäba A tour of Addis Ababa 13
mäs
hetïnna gazet
a Magazines and newspapers 14
andand yämäs
het mät
at
ïfö Some magazine articles

Rezensionen

'Colloquial Amharic is a good introduction for learners in spoken Amharic. For beginners and for self-improvers 'key to exercises' is very useful for controlling one's own improvements ... the author is to be congratulated for preparing an Amharic language course accompanied by recorded cassettes. We wish it a lot of readers. - Aethiopica, 1998

'Colloquial Amharic is a good introduction for learners in spoken Amharic. For beginners and for self-improvers 'key to exercises' is very useful for controlling one's own improvements ... the author is to be congratulated for preparing an Amharic language course accompanied by recorded cassettes. We wish it a lot of readers. - Aethiopica, 1998