Bereka Buna
autor: Bereka Buna
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S4.E10 - Season Recap and Practice Exercises
S4.E10 - Season Recap and Practice Exercises
O tomto podcastu
Welcome to Bereka Buna, a podcast series designed to support Amharic Language Learning. Episodes in the series range from a focus on vocabulary and grammar to dialogue and more conversational Amharic to get you started on learning the language and move you beyond the basics. Follow along with full transcripts (transliterated and in Amharic Fidel) to hone your reading and writing skills as you listen. The course is meant as support for learning you may already be embarking on. Join host, Luana DeBorst, and guest speakers on this journey of language learning and exploration! For more visit berekabuna.org. Accompanying videos can be found on YouTube @BerekaBuna.
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- S4.E10 - Season Recap and Practice Exercises · 17 minWelcome to the final episode of Season 4 of Bereka Buna, where we’ll do our recap and practice for everything we’ve gone over this season. As always, you’ll hear the activity…
- S4.E9 - The Relative Clause II · 15 minIn this episode we expand on material introduced in the last episode on the Relative Clause, looking at some more ways in which it can be applied in conjunction with other…
- S4.E8 - The Relative Clause · 17 minToday we’ll tackle a grammatical form used very frequently in Amharic, known as the Relative Clause. In English we use the relative clause to modify a noun or noun phrase by…
- S4.E7 - Compounds of Ale · 18 minWe’re back this episode with an in-depth look at one of the words that makes Amharic so dynamic, and so hopelessly confusing at times: that is, the verb አለ. Today we’ll look at…
- S4.E6 - Story Series, Frog goes to dinner · 16 minToday we’re lucky to be back with another episode in our Stories Series with the fabulous Selamawit Geleta. If you’re interested in taking Amharic classes, please visit our…
- S4.E5 - Story Series, Alex Pumpernickel · 20 minFor this Story Series episode we give grammar a break to join Selam as she narrates a new wordless picture book. Follow along with the story images, vocabulary list and example…
- S4.E4 - Conjugating the Passive · 21 minToday we’ll continue on from where we left off last episode with a look at more complex aspects of the Passive form, including how to conjugate passive verbs in the Simple Past…
- S4.E3 - The Passive · 13 minThis episode introduces a complex element of Amharic grammar: The Passive Form. An active sentence in English might be “She painted the house”. A similar sentence in its passive…
- S4.E2 - The Causative · 14 minIn this episode we take a deep dive into an element of Amharic grammar known as The Causative. The Causative, as the name implies, refers to actions which wouldn’t happen of…
- S4.E1 - Adjectives · 14 minWelcome back to a new Season of Bereka Buna! This episode kicks off the Season with a look at Adjectives and how to use them in a sentence. We run through several examples of…
- S3.E10 - Season 3 Recap And Practice · 18 minWelcome to the final episode of Season 3 of Bereka Buna, where we’ll do our recap and practice for everything we’ve gone over this season. As always, you’ll hear the activity…
- S3.E9 - Unique Amharic Expressions · 16 minIn this week’s episode we’ll give grammar and technicalities a break to have a look at some of the unique phrases or expressions in Amharic that have no translation in English…
- S3.E8 - Building Compound Sentences · 12 minToday we’ll look at how to construct compound sentences using a verb form called The Gerund. We introduced the Gerund and how it is used to make past perfect conjugations in…
- S3.E7 - Story Series, Ato Andreas Part II · 10 minIn this episode we pick up again with the second half of Ato Andreas’s story, narrated by the wonderful Selamawit Geleta. As always, if you enjoy her teaching style, you can…
- S3.E6 - Story Series, Ato Andreas Part I · 12 minToday we’re lucky to be back with another episode in our Stories Series with the fabulous Selamawit Geleta. If you’re interested in taking Amharic classes, please visit our…
- S3.E5 - Variations On Ale · 34 minIn this episode we’ll look at some of the most often used, but also most complex, verbs in the Amharic language. That is, uses of the verb አለ “Ale”. If you’ve made it this far in…
- S3.E4 - The Imperative And Jussive · 11 minIn this week’s episode we’ll look at the Imperative and the Jussive, which are related forms of command or request. The Imperative is the name given to a direct command: i.e. go…
- S3.E3 - Subject And Object, Part II · 20 minToday we’ll continue from where we left off last week with our object modifiers, this time adding two important preposition that can completely change the meaning of the…
- S3.E2 - Subject And Object, Part I · 26 minIn this episode we’ll get into some challenging but very important elements of the Amharic language. That is, how to incorporate the person who is doing the action (the subject)…
- S3.E1 - Telling Time And The Ethiopian Calendar · 18 minWelcome back to another Season of Bereka Buna. In these next ten episodes we’ll continue to solidify your language and cultural learning by expanding on your vocabulary…
