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We are Selam and Andiy. After Natnael passed away we wanted to continue his task of teaching children about their country of origin and helping families to find their stories.
This blog is to teach the children that go abroad something about their birth country and to give to the adoptive parents a way to search the biological family of their child.
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Is important what you tell your children about themselves.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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.  

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