Amharic Education Resources

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The Ethiopian World Federation Inc.
3118 Church Ave. #7
Brooklyn NY 11226

Phone: (718) 282-7993
Price: Unknown

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Abyssinian Distributors
P.O.Box 91332
Los Angeles, CA 90009

Description:  Text With Tapes

Phone:  (310) 670-9632
Price:  $245
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Lonely Planet

Ethiopian (Amharic) phrasebook; 1st edition --------------------------------------- Colloquial Amharic, published by Routledge. Paperback : 0-415-10003-8 : 15.99 (Pounds Sterling) Cassettes : 0-415-10004-6 : 19.99 (Pounds Sterling) (2x60 minute) Pack : 0-415-10005-4 : 35.99 (Pounds Sterling) --------------------------------------- Grant & Cutler 55-57 Great Marlborough Street London W1, England): (prices are in Pounds Sterling) Amharic for beginners (M. Frydenlund & K. Svensen), pp184, 16.95 Amharic for foreigners (S. Woldegabir), 4th edition, 1989, pp176, 6.95 Fundamentals of Amharic (C.H. Dawkins), 1969, pp138, 18.00 Spoken Amharic, 2 vols, 1964. Each volume 44.50 Amharic -> English dictionary, ppiii-344, 9.10 Amharic -> English, English -> Amharic dictionary, pp632, 24.50 --------------------------------------- Spoken Language Services Inc. PO Box 783, Ithaca NY 14851 tel: (607) 257-0527 SPOKEN AMHARIC by S. Obolensky, D. Zelelie, M. Andalem. Foreign Service Institute course. Official language of Ethiopia. 650-4 Book I, Units 1-50, 1980 500pp : $40 652-0 Cassettes I, 26 dual track/5 albums : $140 651-2 Book II, Units 51-60, 1980 500pp : $40 653-9 Cassettes II, 5 dual track/1 album : $60 (The above is a better price for the same product as below!) --------------------------------------- The National AudioVisual Center 8700 Edgewood Dr. Capitol Heights, MD 20743-3201 Phone: 1-800-638-1300 Fax : 1-301-763-6025 Amharic Basic Course Units 1-50 (one book) -Covers Spoken Amharic, Vocabulary and Grammar 26 Audio Cassettes Units 51-60 (one book) -Covers Written Amharic (fidel) 2 Audio Cassettes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Units | Price and Title No. With Tapes | Price and Title No. With Out Tapes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 1 - 50 | $186, LK004184 | $156, LK004030 | | 51 - 60 | $60, LK004190 | $30, LK004032 | | ============================================================================== The most prolific writer on Ethiopian and Eritrean languages is most certainly Wolf Leslau. For his more than 2 dozen books, you may write one of the addresses of his publisher given below: Otto Harrassowitz Postfach 2929, 65019 Weisbaden, DE Otto Harrassowitz Taunusstr 14, 65183 Weisbaden, DE

Library References

Fundamentals of Amharic
C.H. Dawkins
Sudan Interior Mission
Adis Ababa
1960, 1969

Instructional text covers vocabulary, grammar, and fidel.

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Amharic Textbook
Wolf Leslau.  
University of California Press
1968

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Short Manual of the Amharic Language (with vocabularies)
Alone-Stokes
Fifth edition, 
Macmillan and co limited.