{"id":3964,"date":"2013-01-27T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2013-01-28T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:44:14","slug":"learning-geez-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/01\/27\/learning-geez-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Ge&#8217;ez script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I decided to bite the bullet and learn the Ge&#8217;ez script. The amount of Amharic material available transliterated into Latin is almost zero so if I&#8217;m going to learn anything beyond the ~400 words my wife and I studied last year, I must get a handle on the alphabet. It&#8217;s over 250 unique syllabic characters. They follow a nice pattern&#8230; except when they don&#8217;t which is a good 30% of the time. Fortunately, my wife made a full stack of nice flash cards for me by hand to practice with! They are working great so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/geez-flashcards-e1359358383900.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3965 lazyload\" alt=\"geez-flashcards\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/geez-flashcards-e1359358383900.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I decided to bite the bullet and learn the Ge&#8217;ez script. The amount of Amharic material available transliterated into Latin is almost zero so if I&#8217;m going to learn anything beyond the ~400 words my wife and I studied last year, I must get a handle on the alphabet. It&#8217;s over 250 unique syllabic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/01\/27\/learning-geez-script\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning Ge&#8217;ez script&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}