u/Bluenamii

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Im an accepted student and definitely not trying to waste a semester retaking precalc, is there a specific cutoff for whether you place into calc 1 or something lower. Anyone who took the test, what did you get and what math course did you place for? Appreciate it.

As a learner, I’ve noticed the difference between spoken and written Amharic. There are quite a few, so here are some of them:

አደረገ turns into አረገ. In casual speech most people omit the ደ. For example ያረጋል vs ያደርጋል. Note: the ረ is not geminated

አወቀ in the present tense removes the ወ. For example አላቅም instead of አላውቅም

አይደለም often isn’t pronounced with ይ. Ppl just say አደለም or even አደል.

አልራበኝም, አልረሳውም or anywhere where the negative tense is combined with a verb that begins with ር can have the ል be replaced with a geminated (or emphasized) ር. For example, this would be አራበኝም or አረሳውም

ን is sometimes removed. For example አተ instead of አንተ, and እዳትመጣ instead of እንዳትመጣ

In ገደለ the ደ is replaced with a geminated ለ, for example ይገድልሃል can turn into ይገልሃል with a geminated ል

ደግሞ is pronounced as ደሞ with a geminated ሞ

Now this is a bit more impolite, but for example in the terms የታባክ, ምናባሽ, and so on, are really just የት አባትክ or ምን አባትሽ contracted.

In compound words with ጊዜ, for example ሁልጊዜ or አንዳንድ ጊዜ, the word ጊዜ is often just replaced with ኤ at the end of the word. Thus, ሁሌ and አንዳንዴ

You don’t have to memorize or obsess over all of these, and some are quite intuitive, but if you want to learn real spoken Amharic, it’s worth being aware of these informal variants. Anyone else have other examples?