Learning Languages
alex August 20th, 2008
Realising the other day that I don’t even know what Amharic or Tigrinya sound like when spoken I’ve now found a few learn Amharic videos on YouTube… the one below gives some basic phrases to use whilst shopping or eating out:
Though not sure I’ll ever be able to pronounce ‘… ligezaw ifeligalehugn’ (meaning ‘I would like to buy…’)!
The LOJSociety has posted up several more Amharic instruction videos which I’ll start to try and learn.
Unfortunately I’ve not found any videos for learning Tigrinya, though I did find out that Tigrinya and Amharic do use the same script/alphabet (Ge’ez) - but unsure yet if that actually makes things any easier or not!
If anyone has any pointers to videos of how to learn Tigrinya, then please pass them on.