AMHARIC

Linguistics 19 Syllabus

PURPOSE: Speaking conversational Amharic.

MATERIAL ASSIGNED:

Foreign Service Institute, Amharic: Basic Course, (ABC).

LL Call No.: PJ/9213/U5/v.1

RESTRICTION: None

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF CREDIT AVAILABLE: 4 units

METHOD OF STUDY:

For each Unit in ABC, you will learn to understand and pronounce the sentences included under Basic Sentences, Classroom Expressions, Structure Sentences or Useful Words. For each section:

1. Listen to the entire dialogue or set of sentences while following the English translation in the book to tell you what the Amharic sentences mean.

2. Listen again, stopping the tape after each sentence and repeating after the speaker. You may glance at the Amharic transcription to help you with details in the pronunciation.

3. Listen and repeat each sentence several more times. Avoid reading the Amharic transcription.

4. Read each sentence in English and try to produce the Amharic translation without looking in the book or listening to the tape. Check yourself against the tape.

5. Say the sentences of the dialogue along with the speaker on the tape again and again until you can produce the Amharic easily and quickly given only the English ones as cues.

Study the explanations in the Notes sections with the expectation that you may be asked simple, specific

questions about them.You may want to study other sections of the text, but they are not part of the course and will not be tested.

EXAMINATION:

Supervisor says the English version of sentences chosen at random from conversations in the assigned material; the student says the Amharic equivalent. The grade is based on both fluency and accuracy.

All exams are 30 minutes. Final is not cumulative.

ASSIGNMENT:

Amharic Basic Course
Block 1: ABC, Units 1-12	Block 3: ABC, Units 25-38
Block 2: ABC, Units 13-24	Block 4: ABC Units 39-50

2 Units 4 Units

STUDY TIME= 6 hrs/wk STUDY TIME= 12 hrs/wk

MIDTERM= Block 1 MIDTERM= Blocks 1 & 2

FINAL= Block 2 FINAL= Blocks 3 & 4