LOVE WORDS FOR A LOVE STORY
I think all the adoptions are love stories. And a lot of times the adopted children loose completely their birth language. Once it was an old woman of an orphanage that was telling me about an adopted child and she told me "teach him, how can he communicate with his birth family if he can not speak their language". I know Amharic is very different from English and it make so difficult to learn it, even not all the children that are adopted here have Amharic as a birth language. My purpose is to teach some words that usually are not in the conversation books, I hope they can be useful to someone, even for adoptive parents to tell their children when they come here to meet them for the first time.
WORD (Amharic) MEANING
Amesegenalehu Thank you
Ewedishalew I love you (to a girl)
Ewedihalew I love you ( to a boy)
Enwedishalen We love you (to a girl)
Enwedihalen We love you (to a boy)
Enwedathuwalen We love you (for a plural you)
Endet neh How are you (boy)
Endet nesh How are you (girl)
Endet nachiw How are you plural
qonjo handsome, beautiful
gobez smart
If some one would be interested into have the voice files or to make a program to learn the Amharic basics with a bit of help we could think about it together.
I think all the adoptions are love stories. And a lot of times the adopted children loose completely their birth language. Once it was an old woman of an orphanage that was telling me about an adopted child and she told me "teach him, how can he communicate with his birth family if he can not speak their language". I know Amharic is very different from English and it make so difficult to learn it, even not all the children that are adopted here have Amharic as a birth language. My purpose is to teach some words that usually are not in the conversation books, I hope they can be useful to someone, even for adoptive parents to tell their children when they come here to meet them for the first time.
WORD (Amharic) MEANING
Amesegenalehu Thank you
Ewedishalew I love you (to a girl)
Ewedihalew I love you ( to a boy)
Enwedishalen We love you (to a girl)
Enwedihalen We love you (to a boy)
Enwedathuwalen We love you (for a plural you)
Endet neh How are you (boy)
Endet nesh How are you (girl)
Endet nachiw How are you plural
qonjo handsome, beautiful
gobez smart
If some one would be interested into have the voice files or to make a program to learn the Amharic basics with a bit of help we could think about it together.
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