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01/13/08

Book Review: Our First Amharic Words

Posted by : Mary Owlhaven in Ethiopia Adoption Blog at 10:28 pm , 303 words, 2479 views
Categories: Shopping/Books/Movies

When I was straightening my daughter's bookshelf this evening, I realized that I have one more fun book to tell you about before I end my stint here at Adoption.com. Stacy at www.amharickids.com was kind enough to send me a review copy of one of their new books a few weeks ago. It is called Our First Amharic Words and in 20 pages it teaches 75 Amharic words in a kid-friendly brightly colored format.

I gave this book to my 5-1/2 year old for Christmas, and she was just thrilled. She has been listening to her older sisters speak Amharic around the house and is very interested in learning more Amharic herself. This book is just her speed. It teaches kids a variety of simple vocabulary words including numbers, colors, and body parts, and features lots of gorgeous Ethiopian kids.

The words are illustrated in pictures, and written in both English and Amharic. Plus the pronunciation of the word is spelled out in English as well. It was interesting to read the pronunciation, try to say the word myself, and then ask our older girls to speak the words. The book's approximations of the sounds are pretty good!

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This book sells for $14, but currently Amaharic Kids is having a 20% off sale on a variety of their children's books, including this one. The sale ends January 15th, so stop by quickly to get the good prices. Be sure to check out their other books as well.

One interesting-looking one that they have is called the Foods Of Ethiopia. This book talks about Ethiopia's food, cooking traditions, staple ingredients, favorite dishes,and holiday celebrations. Another is Held At A Distance, a book that I reviewed a few months ago. It looks to me like they have some other fun books as well!

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Comment from: mandymom7 [Member]

Love the book recommendation. I will check it out. I am trying to find the meaning of the Ethiopian name Yigeremu. So far I have struck out with the internet. Does anyone have any idea about this - or an idea on where to look?

Permalink 04/18/08 @ 06:26

Comment from: ethiosupport [Member]

Ethiotrans.com is offering An Ethiopian Adoption transitional kit .

After passing the lengthy process of child adoption process the next big step will be how you will communicate with your adopted child. Remember that is the hardest part. Having a new kid in your home will be overwhelming for the adopted child and his parents. Now Ethiotrans will help you to ease the process. Some of the services we are offering are.

• Translating your home rules for the new child.
• Teaching you few Amharic worlds that will help you to stay connected to your child.
• Translating dos and don’ts.
• Searching for the nearest Ethiopian church, restaurant and shop.
• Send you Ethiopian Ethic food.
• Giving you Ethiopian food recipes and ingredients.
• Help you stay connected to the Ethiopian culture and Ethiopian holidays,
• Supplying such as Ingra, Wet, kollo,dabo, dabokoolo, Amharic films, Amharic books, Amharic pictures, Amharic posters, Amharic alphabets fedel and so on.
• Arrange time to spend time with you and your child.
• Teach you how Amharic

Also for your adoption process we do the following
1. Translate all your legal documents in to Amharic or from Amharic to English
2. Arrange your air transportation by working together with Yebbo Travel Agency (http://www.yebbo.com)
3. If you’re living in California we also notarize your documents and we can process the document for authentication.
4. Process your Ethiopian visa
5. Arrange your trip in Ethiopian or any other Ethiopian airlines
6. Book your hotel in Addis Ababa
7. If you need interpreter arrange someone of for you
8. Pick up and drop off from the airport
9. if you want to see the hidden treasure of Ethiopian arrange your tour package
10. Over the phone interpretation and several other services
11. Offering Ethiopian dress and other items by partnering with Made in Ethiopia http://www.madeinethiopia.net

Now we are making books for parents that will help you to stay connected with you new child.
Congratulations
www.ethiotrans.com

Permalink 05/12/08 @ 14:54

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