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: ,   Posted in: Eritrea, Tigrigna, language  No Comments

My Tigrinya Phrasebook

I was browsing the web when I found an e-book entitled: “My Tigrinya Phrasebook” by Peter A. Crowther. It’s self described as “A manual of Tigrinya words and phrases” and it’s available free for download. At first glance, I wouldn’t necessarily call it a phrasebook as, for the most part, it is a list of [...]

February 3, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Eritrea, language  4 Comments

“Modern Dictionary with New Methods”

Come one, come all. There is a new dictionary for sale in Asmara. It’s by Dr. Kidanemariam and he worked 10 years to make it a reality. Just amazing. A new monolingual, Tigrinya-Tigrinya, dictionary entitled, roughly translated into “Modern Dictionary with New Method,” by Dr. Kidanemariam Zerezghi was launched on October 24, 2008 at Emba [...]

October 27, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Eritrea, Linguistics, Tigrigna, language  One Comment

New on the Eritrean dictionary scene…

After months of delay, Asmarino.com has now completed its metamorphosis to become Delina.com. Asmarino.com is one of the oldest Eritrean community websites still running (the other is Dehai.org). It is based in the US, completely independent and serves as a forum for those Eritreans who oppose the Eritrean government or it’s politics. It’s also multilingual [...]

September 11, 2008  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Eritrea, Linguistics, blogoshpere, language  No Comments

Word a day

Well, I’m gonna give it a shot. I’m going to try to update the home page every day with a word. This should fix the problem, I have, of not focusing enough of my time on this website. Now that I must update it every day, I can’t keep letting my website work pile up. [...]

June 1, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, website update  No Comments

Wordlist and Spell checking for Amharic and Tigrigna

I was surfing the web when I came across this. An outstanding computer Science student named Biniam Gebremichael has created a Tigrinya spell check program for Open office. His installation instructions are listed here . He has also collected a massive word list in Tigrinya and Amharic due to the Geez Crawler software that he [...]

May 3, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, language  One Comment

Five new dictionaries

I always meant to finish this but I was so caught up in my own life to complete it. Oh well, I’ve added five new dictionaries to the website, they’re basically just a copy of the English version but with the English respectively translated into another language. I probably wouldn’t trust these dictionaries, as they [...]

April 11, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, language, website update  No Comments

A poet’s soul

Poetry is good for learning a language; not only does it familiarize you with novel ways meaningful sentences can be constructed, the verses are often small and concise. This can be a big relief to Tigrinya language newcomers as small verses are a lot less intimidating then tackling an entire newspaper article. Also, remember that [...]

March 19, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, poetry  No Comments

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Six new flash card pages. Subject Pronoun – Flash Cards: Tig/Eng, Eng/Tig The verb ኢዩ – Flash Cards: Tig/Eng, Eng/Tig Demonstratives – Flash Cards: Tig/Eng, Eng/Tig // Share|

February 28, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, website update  No Comments

Hillary lives in a glass house…

This is a language website and I hate people who blog about politics, but I just saw this on the BBC… Robed Obama picture ignites row The photo of Barack Obama was taken during a 2006 trip US Democratic front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have traded accusations over a photo of Mr Obama circulating [...]

February 25, 2008  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Africa, Eritrea, world events  4 Comments

New quiz

There is a small update to my website Tigrigna online. I’ve added eight more questions to the section: Demonstratives – Quiz #1; and I’ve added a new page: the verb ኢዩ – Quiz #1. I’m currently working on a similar quiz page for the lesson on Subject Pronouns. // Share|

February 21, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Tigrigna, language, website update  No Comments

New feature for a quiet forum…

I just finished adding a feature to the message board, that is so coolly named, “The School Yard“. The feature is that you can type in Tigrinya (Ge’ez letters) without the aid of a separate program. All you need is to download and install the proper font (“GF Zemen Unicode“) and remember the special table [...]

January 2, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Tigrigna, website update  One Comment