Free Amharic Lessons and Courses

Free Amharic Lessons and Courses
We have gathered together here a number of free Amharic language lessons and language courses for those learning Amharic, along with some other Amharic language resources, such as Amharic online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.

  Video Lessons

Archive.org Amharic Video Lesson
The video lesson is downloadable and streamable online in MPEG4, Ogg Video, and Quicktime formats... (83.3 M)QuickTime
Amhariconline.spruz.com Videos
Site with a number of video lessons in the Amharic language, brought to you by the Lion of Judah Society.
Learn Amharic Now - The Entire Order - The Language of RasTafari
Youtube video lesson, focusing on pronunciation and characters.

  Courses and Exercises

Amharic Numbers, 0-10
Amharic numerals with drills and exercises.
Ethiopic's English-Amharic Glossary
Online HTML glossary of English words and their Amharic equivalents; uses a transliteration scheme that doesn't require non-English fonts.
InternetPolyglot.com: Amharic - English
Vocabulary with audio pronunciations for everyday words and concepts.
InternetPolyglot.com: English - Amharic
Vocabulary with audio pronunciations for everyday words and concepts.
Learn101.org Amharic
"All the lessons contain audio and are all offered for free. We will learn the alphabet together. We will also review some simple grammar rules, practice common phrases, and we will have fun memorizing many important vocabulary lists."
MyLanguages.org Amharic Audio Lessons
Audio lessons for Amharic in MP3 format in a downloadable zip file.

  Language Communities

MyLanguageExchange.com Learn to Speak Amharic (Ethiopian)
"Learn Amharic (Ethiopian) online by practicing with a native speaker who is learning your language. Write or speak Amharic (Ethiopian) online to improve grammar or conversation."
Polyglot
Polyglot is a non-profit community dedicated to language exchange. Polyglot allows you to find the right person ready to exchange languages with you. You will search for penpals according to age, gender, location, hobbies, etc. Polyglot is fully customizable. You will choose your own icons, styles or post your own Polyglot translations, so that more people speaking your language can become a member.
UniLang Community
The main purpose of the UniLang Community is to provide an online site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations. We are an open non-profit organization, meaning that everything on our site is publicly accessible at no cost, and membership is also free and open for everybody. All data, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under an open licence, the UniLang Public License, as opposed to a restrictive copyright.

  Other Amharic Resources

Amharic Dictionaries Online
Comprehensive listing of Bulgarian dictionaries, technical reference, grammars, and other language aids.
African Internet Radio and Online News Radio
Large directory of internet radio programs with conversation and music in a number of different audio formats.