This resource contains a dialogue which takes place at the post office. It involves a woman customer who wishes to send a registered letter. The dialogue is pitched at level 3 (B1/2 accroding to the CEFR) and some exercises follow.

This calendar, for the month of May 2013, in Tigrinya, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Look out for another language next month! This is the fifth of a 12-month series lasting until Dec 2013. A printed 'Why study language?' calendar for 2013 is available from www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar.

Paraphrasing, reading between the lines and objectivity

This Tigrinya poem is based on an English poem, whose author is not known.

Information on who a refugee is in legal terms

Idioms such as the four items, which are underlined, are so linked with the tradition, it is essential for those born in the Diaspora to learn and appreciate their denotative and conotative meanings.