Leslau Wolf. Amharic Textbook

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1967 — xviii; 680 p. — ISBN: 3-447-00554-8A beginning and intermediate course in 50 lessons.
The textbook gives the essential features of the language and enables the student to speak Amharic and read easy texts.
This Textbook treats the language that is spoken in the province of Shoa and in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. It is a shorter version of a much more detailed work prepared under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The textbook gives, however, the essential features of the language, and thus enables the student to speak the language and to read easy texts. A much more detailed textbook, dealing in detail with the variety of the syntactic features of the language, would be required to prepare the student for the reading of Amharic literature. The textbook has an introduction and fifty lessons. The Introduction deals with the sounds (consonants and vowels) of Amharic, and with the Amharic alphabet. The alphabet is treated in seven sections, each section having appropriate reading exercises.Amharic language textbook in English. Simple and accessible explanations, starting with the alphabet and pronunciation.