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AMAHRIC FOR BEGINNERS
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AMAHRIC FOR BEGINNERS (Paper Cover)

~ Marie Frydenlund (Author), Kristine Svensen (Author)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One

Page

1 The Alphabet 

2.Questions wiht What and Who

3.Questions with How many 

4.Personal pronouns 

5.The possessive and demonstrative pronouns 

6.The noun 

7.Possessive pronouns (Independent) 

8.Verbs in the past tens. Group I.

9.Verbs in the past tense. Group II 

10.Verbs in the past tense. Group ill

11.Reflexive pronouns. Review exercises 

12.The imperative 

13.Greetings 

14.Causatives 

15.Adjectives. Numerals 

16.Past continuous tense and persent tense 

17.Preposition 

18.Negative verbs

19.Comparison between verbs beginning in h and direct causatives

20.Drill and review exercises 

21.The infinitive 

22.Conjuctions 

23.Subordinating conjuctions 

24.Conjuction wiht negative verbs 

25.Relative clauses I 

26.Relative clauses II

27.List of words 

28.Key To Part I

Part Two

20. The Gerund I 

30.The Gerund II 

31.The Perfect Tenses 

32.The Jussive 

33.The Object Suffixes 

34.Reported Speech and Indirect Questions 

35.The Verb to have

36.The Passive Voice 

37.Prepositions as Verbal Affixes 

38.Group IV and Group V verbs 

39."Become - verbs" and Impersonal Verbs 

40.Verbs with the Second Radical Repeated 

41.Compounds of the አለ verb 

42.Comparison 

43.Idiomatic Expressio

44.Changed Stem verbs 

45.List of words

46.Key To Part 2 

 

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INTRODUCTION

Amharic for Beginners is intended for those who are taking the first steps in the study of the Amharic language.

The grammar is mainly based on The Fundamentals ofAmharic by C.H. Dawkins. Several passages have been quoted directly. Those who want to study this grammar in detail will find several references,abbreviated D.

We have also found much help inA Beginner's Amharic Grammar by D.M. Davies and C.F. Listeir.

Comments and exercises have been worked out through several years· of teaching Amharic, in constant cooperation with experienced Ethiopian informants.

The book may, to a certain extent, be used for self-study. For this purpose keys to the exercises are found at the end of the book.

We ask the student to use them with some common sense; that is, to try to work out the exercises on your own before looking up the keys.

The student is strongly advised to get help from an Amharic-speaking Ethiopian informant.Theory on grammar, drill and practice sentences are all of great help when learning a language, but the correct use of words and sentences is not enough to make oneself understood. Pronunciation, intonation, idioms and other features of the Amharic language can only be learnt from the Ethiopians themselves. That's why it is so important that students right from the beginning get used to imitating and listening to spoken Amharic.

Another valuable means of instruction is the tape recorder. Ask your Ethiopian informant to read slowly and distinctly, with pauses in between, so when listening to the recording, you will have time enough to repeat and imitate, or, write it down as dictation. Also, do some recording of your own reading so that you may hear your own pronunciation and mispronunciations.

As for the translation of sentences and short stories, it may to a certain extent be necessary for a beginner to translate word by word. But the more you get used to a language, the more you will notice that the same thoughts are often expressed in quite another way from that of your own language. Try therefore to free yourself more and more from thinking in your language, and try to express yourself more directly in the Amharic instead.

On the other hand, you should also translate the original meaning into a natural and free form when translating from the Amharic into your own language.

Thus, the stories at the end of the book may be of some help to you, as they have been translated rather freely into English.

M.F.&KS. 

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  Author: Marie Frydenlund, Kristine Svensen
  Paper Cover: 170 pages
  Publisher: SIM Publishing
  Languages: Amahric, English
  Product Dimension: 7.14 x 11.5 x 0.5 Inches
  Shipping Weight: 335 Grams (View shipping rates and policies)
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  MPID: 3363253640
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