Archive for the ‘Eritrea’ Category
Behind the Crisis: Eritrea’s Struggle To Survive
An interesting PBS documentary about Asmara and Eritrea in general. Enjoy.
February 1, 2011
Tags: PBS, video Posted in: Eritrea 
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Eri-blog links
I have amassed quite a collection of Eri-blogs; it would be a shame if people did not read them every now-n-then. The only thing they have in common is that they tend to be personal and are somehow related to Eritrea. A lot of them aren’t even updated regularly, but my rule is to keep [...]
November 10, 2010
Tags: blogoshpere Posted in: Eritrea One Comment
Tigrinya–English Picture Dictionary
I was browsing the web when I found an excellent new e-book entitled: “Tigrinya – English Picture Dictionary” by eritreanrefugees.org. It’s primarily designed for native Tigrigna speakers who want to learn English, but it can work in both directions. Also since it’s a picture dictionary you get to see images of the things/descriptions/actions that are being translated and [...]
November 3, 2010
Tags: Printable English-Tigrigna Dictionary, Tigrigna, tigrinya Posted in: Eritrea, language, Linguistics, Tigrigna 3 Comments
“I can count in… English and Tigrinya”
This is a children’s book dedicated to teaching English and Tigrinya numbers. The authors just contacted me by email so I have little-more information about the book, but it seems cute and fitting for kids; a lot more friendly then the (never-ending) counting drills/exercises that I had to do as a child. I still remember those drills… Teacher: [...]
October 6, 2010
Tags: blogoshpere, book, counting, numbers, tigrinya Posted in: Eritrea, language, Tigrigna No Comments
Sketch
A quick pen sketch of a little girl.
July 28, 2010
Tags: Eritrea, pen, sketch Posted in: Eritrea, sketch One Comment
Linguistic diversity; good thing… or the cause of African poverty!!
Heh silly/hyperbolic blog titles aside, this is the rough question that was posed then brutally slapped away by Greg Downey of Neuroanthropology. Check it out. It’s a good, solid and thorough post on the subject of linguistic diversity; one which I don’t think I could paraphrase without missing a couple of huge chunks. However here are a [...]
July 26, 2010
Tags: Greg Downey, neuroanthropology Posted in: Africa, Eritrea, language, Linguistics One Comment
Eri-Canadians talk about bilingualism
Meseret.ca has an interesting discussion about the importance of young Eritreans (who grew up in the diaspora) to learn the native language of their parents (they talk mostly of Tigrigna). The issues they talk about are pretty interesting… Watch live streaming video from mesradio at livestream.com
July 13, 2010
Tags: meseret Posted in: Eritrea, Tigrigna No Comments
“How to play the Kirar” tutorial videos
I stumbled onto these two vids while scanning the net. Kirar Tutorial Part One Kirar Tutorial Part Two Cool, eh? I’m gonna whip out my old krar and try to learn some techniques. h/t: luwam_t ***Additional Edit*** Kirar Tutorial Part Three
February 1, 2010
Tags: krar Posted in: Eritrea No Comments
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