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“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
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:
Human body – 1, 2, [...]
“My 15 min of ‘fame’ in Eritrea.”
A Nairobi based reporter (Shashank Bengali) tells of his live interview with Isaias on EriTV; anybody catch it?
cityoneminutes – Asmara
A friend of mine emailed me this link a while ago, I really don’t know how to describe it. Here is a description of their site:
Are you curious to know how people live on the other side of the world? What does Moscow look like between three and four in the afternoon? What happens [...]
Human Development Index
The Human Development Report 2009 came out today, it’s sort of like a ranking of the general standards of living in the world. Wikipedia has their index updated already.
Here are a few selected countries and their score…
001
Norway
0.971
▲ +0.001
004
Canada
0.966
▲ +0.001
013
United States
0.956
▲ +0.001
081
Mauritius
0.804
▲ +0.003
083
Lebanon
0.803
▲ +0.003
084
Armenia
0.798
▲ +0.011
134
India
0.612
▲ +0.008
158
Nigeria
0.511
▲ +0.005
159
Togo
0.499
▲ [...]
heheh…
I have a bizarre sense of humour, but this caption/picture had me laughing…
“Apparently they just got Ak47’s and Apple computers in Eritrea.”
EriTV – Streaming Live On The Net
Most people in the Erispora (a cute portmanteau of “Eritrean” & “Diaspora;” of which I’m not the first to use…) already know this, so this post is for all of you non-Eritreans.
Eastafro.com is streaming Eritrean television (EriTV) free on the Internet for anybody to watch. So for all of you Tigrigna students who wished that [...]
Repairing lives and limbs for children in Eritrea
Physicians for Peace is an American NGO that works on “Improving health care in the developing world”
I just stumbled onto a blog post and photo slide of their Limb Rescue Mission in Eritrea. Check it out.
Eritrea country literacy report
I was surfing the net when I ran into a report on an Eritrean adult literacy program published by UNESCO in late January of 2008. Although it has few hard figures (at the end there are two good tables), it’s worth a look if you’re interested in this stuff.
Small Update – I found a much [...]
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 [...]
I love stories…
For me, the best stories are the ones that are recounted with vivid detail, with interesting characters and colourful commentary. If it’s non-fiction, I like a strict adherence to realism; if it’s fiction I enjoy the total break of realism into creative fantasy or surrealism. I’m a very fickle person. However, stories revolving around a [...]
One Year!
Hey, I almost forgot… This December marks the one year anniversary of this website/blog. It was one year ago that I uploaded my first Tigrigna/English dictionary and published my first Tigrigna lesson.
I always believed that what I’m doing is nothing special. I am only doing what anyone with a ‘passing familiarity’ and some incomplete references [...]
“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 Soyra [...]
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 [...]
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