Since I have this project of learning Amharic, I’ve been experimenting with my iPod Touch to be able to have something easy and complete at hand. Up to now I was using the iPod for the audio files and following the text with the book in my hands, but it is a little uncomfortable [...]

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I found this beautiful animation on the Internet based on a popular Ethiopian tale and I liked it very much. The story is kind of funny and is also very well done technically. I don’t know exactly how it was made, but I guess it must be paint on glass:

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This post is brought to you by the letter:
Besides the 33 traditional symbols of the Amharic alphabet, there is another one that is equivalent to the letter V in the Latin alphabet. This symbol is used in words derived from foreign languages, like the words “university”, “television”, etc. It’s used to describe things with [...]

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It’s not easy all this waiting thing without loosing patience and the good spirits.But that’s the way it is and I never thought it was going to be easy. When you embark in an adoption you are in the hands of others and when this adoption is international it is even much more difficult to [...]

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