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| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 1 of 19 16 January 2006 at 11:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been toying around with some basic Armenian lately, mostly out of boredom, and I was wondering if anyone else here has ever learnt or tried learning Armenian. If so, what kind of problems did you encounter and what resources can you recommend for learning the language? I'm mostly interested in the Eastern dialect.
I'm particularly fond of the Armenian alphabet (it looks so alien) and its grammar isn't overly difficult but its use of multiple consonants in some words really gets to me at times as I've mostly dealt with Romance languages in the past. If anyone else is curious about Armenian, there are a few good sites out there for learning it. I recommend http://www.learnarmenian.com/NonArmenian/NonArmenian.cfm and http://www.cilicia.com/armo_lesson000.html, although the latter is a little disorganised for beginners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7189 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 2 of 19 16 January 2006 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Armenian is on my big list of languages I wish to learn someday, but I haven't looked at it yet. Thanks for the links.
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 3 of 19 16 January 2006 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with your Armenian; having had Armenian friends in Istanbul a number of years ago, I always wanted to learn Armenian, but found that the letters of the alphabet just wouldn't stay in my head very well, so I never stuck with it.
Armenians are fascinating people, however, with an interesting culture. The language itself always appealed to me greatly, with the "strong" consonants like kh, gh, ts, dz, etc. My interest was always in the western dialect, since that was what my friends spoke. I don't have much to recommend in terms of resources for the eastern dialect, but there is one on-line conversation guide to the eastern dialect that was prepared for the US Peace Corps about a decade ago. It's a lengthy (176-page) PDF file and is available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_stora ge_01/0000000b/80/23/ae/4d.pdf Assimil has an Armenian course in the eastern dialect written in French: L'Armenien Sans Peine. The "Spoken Languages" series of books also had an eastern Armenian course with six cassettes; I assume it's still avaiable. Also, there's a very good reference grammar of the eastern dialect in French: Grammaire d'Armenian Oriental, by Martiros Minassian, published in 1980 (ISBN 0-88206-040-6). I don't know if it's still in print, but used copies ought to be available. In any event, good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 4 of 19 18 January 2006 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the link to that Peace Corps file...it may prove very helpful. :)
I'm not sure how easy it will be for me to find those books/audio cassettes but I certainly will keep an eye open next time I drop by the bookstores (or Amazon). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| surfingnirvana Newbie United States Joined 6825 days ago 37 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Armenian | Message 5 of 19 20 March 2006 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am part Armenian, and I want to learn all of the languages I am(sadly this means Siclian which is probablly a no, Polish probablly not, Russian hopefully, Gaeilge hopefully, and Romany, even though material is nil).
But I think the consonants scared me away :(! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 6 of 19 20 March 2006 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Then you'd better not try and learn any Georgian! There's a language than needs a few more vowels. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6895 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 19 21 March 2006 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
This is from a few years back now, but since the subject came up I can't resist mentioning "Operation Vowel Storm", for those of you who hadn't seen it before ;o). It's sort of loosely on topic for the thread, and for the group as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 8 of 19 21 March 2006 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
Great story! I guess on the other hand you have languages like Hawaiian and Maori which use vowels a little too liberally. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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