Amharic Basic Course

Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia used in government, business, government schools, most newspapers, and by educated people. The Amharic Basic Course presents lessons in dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives. It includes samples of speech, explanations of basic language structures, and a variety of practical exercises. The course uses "transcription", but there is an introduction to the writing system at the end of the second volume.

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Example of Amharic writing (Bible extract)

Archive download

The whole course is available as an archive here Amharic Basic Course

Volume 1

Student Text

Unit 01 Tape Unit 07 Tape
Unit 02 Tape Unit 08 Tape
Unit 03 Tape Unit 09 Tape
Unit 04 Tape Unit 10 Tape
Unit 05 Tape Unit 11 Tape
Unit 06 Tape

Volume 2

Student Text


Volume 1 New Audio

Student Text

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5
Unit 6 Unit 7 Unit 8 Unit 9 Unit 10
Unit 11 Unit 12 Unit 13 Unit 14 A Unit 14 B
Unit 15 Unit 16 Unit 17 Unit 18 Unit 19
Unit 20 Unit 21 Unit 22 Unit 23 Unit 24
Unit 25 Unit 26 Unit 27 Unit 28 Unit 29
Unit 30 Unit 31 Unit 32 Unit 33 Unit 34
Unit 35 Unit 36 Unit 37 Unit 38 Unit 39
Unit 40 Unit 41 Unit 42 Unit 43 Unit 44
Unit 45 Unit 46 Unit 47 Unit 48 Unit 49
Unit 50

Volume 2 New Audio

Student Text

Unit 51 Unit 52 Unit 53 Unit 54 Unit 55
Unit 56 Unit 57 Unit 58 Unit 59 Unit 60

Off-site Material

Audio for units 1-60 are currently being hosted at Indiana University.