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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 
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“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
Two linguists talk about language…
September 18, 2010
Tags: BENJAMIN ZIMMER, JOHN MCWHORTER, video Posted in: language, Linguistics No Comments
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
Simona’s nature adventures in Eritrea
I found a nice little cache of animated children’s stories and workbooks that have been translated to Tigrinya. I urge everyone to give them a quick look, each story also has an option to switch to the English translation. Simona’s Nature Adventures in Eritrea, East Africa Lucy Lava Light Magic What is a tree? Workbooks: [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: links, tigrinya Posted in: Eritrea, language, Tigrigna No Comments
Two Years!
It’s been two wonderful years of Tigrigna lexicography bliss, as this December marks the second anniversary of memhr.org In the beginning this website started as just a weird hobby of mine and today it continues as such; I can’t stress this enough, telling myself that this is “just a hobby” is the one rule in [...]
December 2, 2009
Tags: anniversary Posted in: language, Linguistics, website update No Comments
When spam gets hella-strange
Since I run a Tigrigna language teaching website, I get a lot of emails from many different people who are (like myself) amateur Tigrigna language enthusiasts; but this latest e-mail is the first spam-bot email I have ever received. It’s very bizarre, so I hope you find some humour in it…. ***emailremoved@yahoo.com*** Am Juliet,a tall [...]
October 28, 2009
Tags: spam-bot Posted in: language, Linguistics No Comments
ካርቦን ሞኖክሳይድ!!!!
Here is a random PDF I pulled up from the vast depths of the Internet, the file is a small pamphlet detailing the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning in Tigrinya; it’s a public health warning from the Washington state government. Now, why would I link you a random Tigrigna health pamphlet from the Washington state [...]
October 19, 2009
Tags: Learning, Tigrignya, Translations Posted in: language, Tigrigna No Comments
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