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Trip to Oromia
It has been far too long, but I recently came back from a month-long trip to Ethiopia where I spent most of my time in Oromia. This meant that I got to spend most of my days practicing afaan Oromoo and getting back into a more conversational style of talking. It also meant that I…
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Learning English (for speakers of afaan Oromoo)
“How do I learn English?” This is probably the question that I get the most when I am speaking with others. In Ethiopia, like many places in the world, the ability to speak English opens up different job opportunities and is often a requirement to further your education. At the same time, outside of major…
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Reading a Dictionary
I have not died, but I have been unordinarily sick these last three months. I have returned from my trip to Ethiopia with a handful of new books but I have also started going through a dictionary. Reading a dictionary may not seem like the most fun but it is enjoyable so far. I have…
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Trip to Ethiopia
In an incredibly odd situation for me, I may be having a trip to Ethiopia in the near future. It has been a while since I have visited, and I am unsure exactly how much time I will have while I am there, but as always it is very exciting. It may be that I…
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Coming Back
After a month of illness, family emergencies, and moving; hopefully the site will be coming back with new posts in the next week.
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Oromiffa af Soomaali
Somali is the Cushitic language that I am most familiar with other than afaan Oromoo. I am by no means fluent, but my understanding is pretty good. Oromiffa af Soomaali by Badal W. Kariye, belongs to the realm of afaan Oromoo and non-European and non-Amharic language books. This is a very small group of books…
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Proverbs and Sayings of the Oromo People of Ethiopia and Kenya with English Translations
At this point, there are few books that I know of and want that I do not have. Many of my new purchases are surprises where I did not know the book previously existed. One exception has been Proverbs and Sayings of the Oromo People of Ethiopia and Kenya with English Translations by John Cotter.…
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Academic Work
This topic of academic work touches on a lot of different resources but all of which come back to being academic studies. These are mostly not published or are freely available outside of being published. This means that it is a lot of articles in academic journals or masters or doctoral work, either theses or…
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Oromo-English Dictionary by Tilahun Gamta
Speaking of a good dictionary, here is the first dictionary I will be talking about. This is the Oromo-English Dictionary by Tilahun Gamta. Published in 1989, this was one of the earlier dictionaries to see more wide dispersal. This was before the more recent standardization of qubee. The dictionary uses its own transliteration of written…
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Afaan Oromoo Wikipedia
This title doesn’t exactly hide that I am going to talk about Wikipedia today. The afaan Oromoo Wikipedia is not a robust Wikipedia. Many topics are missing and many articles are relatively short descriptions. Obviously, this is less good if trying to use the website as an actual way to gain knowledge. But, many of…