Amharic for children
The fidel, first words with their sound, and where to ask about weekend classes — for children growing up here, and the parents teaching them.
Build a sentence
Tap the words in the right order. In Amharic the verb comes last: the child — the bread — ate.
Tomorrow I will go to school.
How this course is built
The order follows published Amharic courses and children's readers: the seven vowel forms and a few letter families at a time, reading only words made from letters already taught (FSI Amharic Basic Course; University of Wisconsin); short stories and folk tales followed by questions, as in Ethiopia's Grade 1–3 readers and its national early-grade reading check; English beside the Amharic, as the bilingual diaspora books do; and questions to ask at home, as heritage classes give. The Amharic is drafted and is being checked by a native speaker.