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ruskivyetr
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20 April 2010 at 2:28pm | IP Logged

Hmmm. Perhaps I will check this out...
Resources are rare although I'm happy for what I have (for now :P).
I'm ALMOST DONE WITH THE ALPHABET!!! It's really early in the morning so hopefully once I'm done with the
alphabet, I can do some of the first lesson.
Later I will make goals for all of my languages for the day. I didn't do ANYTHING but the Armenian alphabet later,
but today I'll be done so that's good :).
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20 April 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged

I should have mentioned, btw, that Spoken East Armenian is mostly done in the Armenian alphabet. Transcriptions are used only in the first third or so, when they are teaching the alphabet.

I think there was a large on-line Armenian resource center or bookstore based in Fresno, California, a strong center of Armenian culture, which had lots of materials. You might see if that's still around.
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20 April 2010 at 11:46pm | IP Logged

pohaku wrote:

I should have mentioned, btw, that Spoken East Armenian is mostly done in the Armenian
alphabet. Transcriptions are used only in the first third or so, when they are teaching the alphabet.

I think there was a large on-line Armenian resource center or bookstore based in Fresno, California, a strong center
of Armenian culture, which had lots of materials. You might see if that's still around.

Hahah the point of this week is to learn the alphabet and get a feel for the language, and then start learning
grammar :). There are apparently a lot of differences between eastern and western. I'm checking online now for any
online Armenian bookstores, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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21 April 2010 at 12:00am | IP Logged

I once wanted to learn Armenian, but ashamedly confess that I was defeated by the alphabet...

But one place to buy Armenian books on-line is the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, which has an on-line bookstore:

http://www.naasr.org/store/home.php

(Although some of the same books can probably be found at Amazon and elsewhere.)
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21 April 2010 at 2:06am | IP Logged

daristani wrote:

I once wanted to learn Armenian, but ashamedly confess that I was defeated by the alphabet...

But one place to buy Armenian books on-line is the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, which
has an on-line bookstore:

http://www.naasr.org/store/home.php

(Although some of the same books can probably be found at Amazon and elsewhere.)

Tha alphabet is soo intimidating. So much harder than the Georgian alphabet. The worst part is, I don't even have
audio :P. That bookstore looks promising. hmmmmm let's see if it has native materials.
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21 April 2010 at 2:10am | IP Logged

Ok my goal for tonight is to finally finish the alphabet. There is one final burst of letters. After that, I'm going to take
a break and focus on Russian and Georgian. I need to reach my goals for this week!!!
Anyways, I have so much Eastern material thanks to UZ Translations. It really is a life saver.
I've also gotten a bunch of Western materials so that's good.

I really want to become proficient in both :).
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21 April 2010 at 7:00am | IP Logged

I FINALLY FINISHED LEARNING THE ALPHABET :D!!!!
I'M SO HAPPY! NOW I CAN START ON MY ACTUAL STUDIES!
I've also been neglecting my Russian and Georgian. Read in my TAC log about my goals and my completions for the
rest of the week for Armenian.
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21 April 2010 at 7:03am | IP Logged

Good job! I was going to try to write "congratulations" in Armenian, but I couldn't find a translation. Instead, here's a quiz!

Transliterate the following phrase into the Latin alphabet:
Հայերէն կը խօսի՞ս:

:)

--Philip

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