Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Copyright)
The Amharic language has 32 million native speakers in Ethiopia and about 25 million people who speak Amharic as a second language.
It is the most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, but has slightly fewer native speakers than the Ethiopian Oromo language.
Amharic is a Semitic language and also has its own script. The Rastafarian religion considers Amharic a sacred language.
Content: Amharic vocabulary trainer (2000 words), lessons and exercises
Prices:
USD 12 (1 month all 160 languages)
USD 60 (12 months all 160 languages)
Discount offer: USD 199
(Lifetime Access to all 160 Languages)
Overall Value: 
The uTalk app teaches about 2000 Amharic words and focuses primarily on playful exercises. There are several exercises to choose from:
The interface of the app is well made and is similar to other apps like Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.
Summary: Getting access to 160 languages is impressive and the scope (2000 words with native speaker audio and exercises) is also solid.
Link: uTalk Amharic Language Course App
Suitable for: Beginners and Advanced Learners, Students, Professionals
Content: 1300 words (basic course), 5200 words (complete course), grammar, verb conjugations, exercises
Prices: $59.95 (Basic Course), $127 (Complete Course)
Overall Value:
The Amharic Basic Course contains a vocabulary trainer for the basic Amharic vocabulary (1300 words) with native-speaker audio, as well as grammar explanations and various exercises.
The vocabulary trainer works with a long-term memory method, in which the new vocabulary is checked at increasing intervals.
You can choose between text input, multiple choice or simply confirming whether you knew a word or not.
The exercises include text comprehension questions, filling in word gaps or just vocabulary lists where one side is covered.
The basic course corresponds to the official language levels A1 and A2 (explanation of CEFR language levels).
The Complete Course contains:
Summary: Much cheaper and even better than the famous Rosetta Stone. There is a free demo version available and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Link: Amharic Basic Course and Complete Course
Content: Amharic video lessons and quiz tests
Prices: $12.99 (one course), $24.99 (4-7 courses bundle)
Overall Value: 
Cudoo is a kind of online university that offers courses with certificates on different topics.
This includes language courses for 160 languages. These are all beginner courses (CEFR level A1 and A2).
For each language there are 1-10 courses and each course has 20-40 lessons.
The lessons each include a short video with new vocabulary and there are short quiz questions below the video.
Summary: The videos are well made, so especially for smaller languages these courses are a good start.
Link: Cudoo Online Amharic Language Course
Content: Amharic exercises with native speaker audio and speech recognition
Prices: $9.99 (1 month), $100 (12 months), $200 (unlimited), $400 (163 languages)
Overall Value: 
The Bluebird App offers 146 source languages and 163 target languages and dialects, including Amharic.
The Amharic language course in this app includes the following:
There are about 500 video lessons for learning Amharic, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed transliterated in the Latin script.
The Bluebird app has no grammar lessons. Instead, you are supposed to understand the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, like in Rosetta Stone.
Summary: The video lessons and the interface take some getting used to, but the exercises are quite varied. Especially for smaller languages, this app is a viable alternative.
Content: Amharic lessons and vocabulary trainer with native speaker audio, grammar
Prices: $22 (1 month), $70 (12 months), $255 (unlimited)
Overall Value:
With the Memrise App you can learn over 90 languages.
This includes even very small languages - however, in such cases the language courses are often limited to just a few lessons.
One special feature of the Memrise learning app is the large number of lessons created by users (native speakers).
The quality of these lessons varies greatly though. For example, only the basic forms of verbs are usually taught, without the conjugations. Some languages also do not have an audio recording of the words at all.
Another good idea of the Memrise app are the user-generated tips and mnemonics for each word to help you memorize them.
Summary: User-generated lessons are a good idea. In practice, the quality of the lessons leaves a lot be desired.
Suitable for: Intermediate and Advanced Learners
Content: Multiple-choice selection of missing words in sentences (with native speaker audio)
Prices: $8 (1 month), $60 (12 months), $140 (lifetime access)
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The Clozemaster app is intended for intermediate and advanced learners who have already mastered the basic vocabulary and want to practice.
The only exercise is to choose the correct missing word in a sentence from a list of four words. The translation of the sentence is displayed as well. At the end, the sentence is also spoken by a native speaker.
In the English version of this app there are 70 languages to choose from.
Large languages have up to 50,000 vocabulary items (words, phrases, and verb variations), while smaller languages often have only 500.
In the online version, you can also type in the missing words. The smartphone app now offers speech recognition.
Summary: An interesting method that is quite fun. Since many apps teach only at a beginner level, this is a good addition for advanced users.
Content: Amharic lessons and exercises
Prices: $19.99 (1 month), $40 (3 months), $60 (6 months)
Overall Value: 
The Lingo Play App offers language courses for 70 languages. It offers "gamified learning", which means learning vocabulary in a playful way.
Each Amharic lesson offers the following exercises:
There is also a multiplayer mode and competitions where you can test your Amharic skills against other people.
Summary: Overpriced Amharic course that does offer some good exercises, but is not better than other similar apps.
Suitable for: Beginners and intermediate learners, travel vocabulary, business
Content: Amharic vocabulary lessons and exercises
Prices: $35 (Level 1), $55 (Level 1-3)
Overall Value:
The Instant Immersion Amharic learning software is available for download only for PCs and Macs.
According to the vendor, this software is supposed to be "as good as Rosetta Stone", but much cheaper because less money is spent on advertising.
Unfortunately, this promise cannot hold.
The software interface is chaotic and all three "language levels" offer a chaotic mix of easy and difficult words.
Essentially, this software only introduces new Amharic vocabulary with native speaker audio and pictures, and then there are a few exercises.
Amharic grammar is not included at all.
Summary: Limited scope and bad interface. At least it is relatively cheap and there is a 90-day money-back guarantee.
Content: Amharic lessons with native speaker audio and speech recognition, grammar
Prices: $35 (second language for free)
Overall Value: 
The Linguashop educational software ("TeachMe") is available for over 90 languages, including Amharic. It also includes an audio CD.
The native speaker audio and speech recognition are relatively good.
However, the interface of the learning software is quite chaotic and there are no exercises — only lessons where new vocabulary is presented.
It is also unclear how many words are included in this Amharic learning program. There is no information about this on the website.
Some grammar lessons are included — however, these are basically just images with short texts.
Summary: Poor quality for a relatively low price. You get language courses for two languages when you buy, one as a free bonus.
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Best App to Learn Amharic:
uTalk App
Best Amharic Online Course:
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