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| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 4938 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 1 of 5 09 April 2011 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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I did always like every Armenian thing. How is Armenian? Is it a hard tongue? I want to
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6936 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 2 of 5 09 April 2011 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
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Here's a brief summary of Armenian grammar in Portuguese:
http://www.hayeren.com.ar/hayeren/download/Sobre%20a%20Grama tica%20da%20Lingua%20Armenia%20-%20Armenian%20Grammar%20by%2 0Chake%20Ekizian_www_hayren_com_ar.pdf 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 4938 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 3 of 5 10 April 2011 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
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Thank you, daristani! Are you Armenian or descent?
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6936 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 4 of 5 10 April 2011 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
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Sorry, no, and I really don't know more than a very few polite phrases in Armenian. But I ran across the above book some time ago and somehow remembered it. The website it came from has various other resources for Armenian, but mostly in Spanish:
http.www.hayeren.com.ar/ Another website that offers a free Western Armenian course (in English) is this one: http://www.armenianprelacy.org/index.php/departments/anec/an -online-course-in-modern-western-armenian Boa sorte com os seus estudos do armenio! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| David O. Hexaglot Newbie Armenia Joined 4868 days ago 3 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Armenian, Estonian Studies: Hungarian | Message 5 of 5 10 April 2011 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
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Good to see that there are people out there interested in Armenian... I've been living
in Yerevan for the past few years, and I've certainly enjoyed learning the language. I'd say the hardest thing about Armenian is the sound system. Armenian has lots of consonant phonemes that English lacks, and from my experience, it certainly takes a while to learn to hear the difference between an aspirated and an unaspirated "ch" or "ts" sound. And the vocabulary is pretty alien... there are very few easily recognizable cognates between Armenian and Romance or Germanic languages. In general, it's a language characterized by long, consonant-rich words, which makes it pretty exotic. The grammar isn't easy, but I wouldn't call it particularly difficult either: no grammatical gender, six noun cases, fairly flexible word order. The verb system has some obvious similarities to that of the Romance languages, and shouldn't be too hard to learn. There's also considerable variation between dialects (not only Eastern/Western, but within Armenia), as well as between spoken and written language. The gulf between the formal written language and what I actually hear every day here in Yerevan is vast indeed, in terms of both grammar and vocabulary. Unfortunately, there aren't many good resources available for Armenian. But it's definitely worth the effort. Good luck/Boa sorte/Հաջողություն! 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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