I know you can’t learn a language in three weeks, but let’s see how I fail.
How much can I learn before my granny from Ethiopia visits?
I’m unemployed so I have time to study and I’m pretty motivated. You can often get from 0 to A1 level in a language within 100 hours of study.
I should be able to learn the writing system (it’s a hard one), more than 100 words, and some amount of grammar.
The basics should be kinda doable. Can you practice with someone?
Day Two: I get the general logic of verbs (mark subject with both prefix+suffix, except in the past tense where it’s all suffix). I get the sentence structure (VSO). I’m working on memorising 1) the most common verb roots, 2) those prefixes and suffixes, 3) the written characters
Goal: if I can memorise 1) the verb prefixes+suffixes for the past+present+future, 2) a few hundred bits of vocab, 3) the writing system… that’d be amazing… then I could string together basic sentences
https://amharicteacher.com/hahu is a site that plays the audio of Amharic characters.
Gonna guess 20 random ones and see how many I get right, then try to beat the score. Repeat until done.
Hackerman says: add
#.alpha_li > spanand#.vert.letterto your adblock filter and it’ll remove the spoilers so you have to guess. Pretty smart huh?though it’s not as filled out as some more common languages, omniglot still has what seems like some good resources to get started:
https://omniglot.com/writing/amharic.htm
good luck.
Hola, I recommend Hellotalk. You might find some tutors or language partners there. I also really like the album Out Of Addis, even though I’m not sure they’re singing in Amharic since I don’t speak it. Good luck!
https://amharicteacher.com/ – hmmmmm, I’m against “apps” and pre-packaged quick fixes but I’ll at least give this a try.
First half-day: I’ve got the eight pronouns solidly memorised, and about 20% of the written characters. At this pace I’ll get to about 300 words, simple sentences, and will be able to read slowly, sounding things out.
