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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 25 13 April 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Since I'm learning one other language of the Caucasus, I though, what the heck, I'll try another. I know Georgian and
Armenian are not related, but it'd be nice to try them out in tandem, and then start with them fully after about a month. I have all of next week free, and most of it is going to be dedicated to language learning. Hopefully my Georgian will finally get a kickstart, and my Armenian can start to pick up speed as well. I do not have my book yet. I am still waiting for it, so I'm just going to do some Russian and Georgian tonight, and see where I get. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5342 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 25 14 April 2010 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with it :)
Great language! Go Armenia ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 25 15 April 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
IT IS AMAZING haha. I just got my Armenian. It's western, but I don't really have an issue, just as long as I'm learning one form or another. If I learn Western, Eastern will be a snap (if I ever spend anytime in the Caucasus, which I probably will, using Georgian, Armenian, and Russian). Anyways, I'm going to start on the script :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 25 17 April 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Բարէւ
I hope thats right :). I'm just using the Armenian unicode keyboard on my computer. For some strange reason there's not one for Georgian. Anyways, I got my Armenian book: Beginner's Armenian from Hippocrene. I know it's not the best, but it's the only thing I could find. Frankly, I could only find stuff for Western Armenian, although everything on Wikipedia and stuff is written in Eastern Armenian so I shouldn't have a problem getting really assimilated into both dialects :). The book looks pretty good, although the only complaint I have about it: NO AUDIO! I must rely on basic pronunciation skills, and hopefully find some examples on the internet. Anyway, after I study Russian I think I'm going to do some Georgian, so Armenian will have to wait for a few hours :(, but I'll get to it today!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 25 19 April 2010 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't have anytime to do Armenian today or yesterday, but tonight I have some time.
I'm going to post my schedule for tonight's studying on my TAC log, and then I will post my progress in their respective logs. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 25 19 April 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Armenian alphabet is harder than I thought. There are multiple letters for the same sound and it's confusing me
:(. I know I'll figure it out as I only started the alphabet about a half hour ago so :P... Anyways I can't wait to actually start studying the language. It seems so interesting in the actual book with all the grammatical nuances and the grammar drills :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 7 of 25 20 April 2010 at 5:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Բարէւ
I'm slowly trudging through the Armenian alphabet. It's really hard, but it's so cool, that it's absolutely worth it. I actually have some plans for Armenian. Once I complete my book, I think I'm going to take more steps to become even more fluent in it. After that most of my work will be trying to comprehend the Eastern dialect which won't be too much of a challenge. Perhaps a trip to the Caucasus will help that :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5654 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 8 of 25 20 April 2010 at 7:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I once looked for Armenian materials and didn't find too much. However, I did obtain "Spoken East Armenian," by Gordon Fairbanks and Earl Stevick, 1958 (!), and seemingly still reprinted by Spoken Language Services, Inc, Ithaca, New York. My copy is copyrighted 1989, but feels newer than that. It's almost 400 pp., and looks well done. I haven't gotten into it yet, though, so I cannot vouch for it.
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