How to Learn Armenian More Effectively?

Before starting the lessons please read carefully this short “How to learn Armenian more effectively?” section and follow the steps.

How to learn Armenian more effectively?

1. Please start with Lesson 1 to avoid any confusion. For those of you who are, to some extent, familiar with Armenian letters the first lessons may seem to be boaring but it’s not right. REMEMBER, we don’t want to miss anything, as soon we are going to speak Armenian.

2. If you can’t find the translation of any word in the lesson it means you haven’t learned your previous lessons well, (we strongly advise you to review them) as all the words are translated when they are used for the first time. So, again we come to the point that starting from the first lesson is advised. However, you can also look the unknown words in our Lessons’ Dictionary.

3. If you have some questions during the first lessons, please follow the lessons patiently and you will certainly find the answer during the next lessons.

4. The whole course consists of Levels, each Level consists of Units and each Unit consists of Lessons. So, the whole construction of the Course is:

Course > Levels > Lessons

All the lessons have the same construction. Each lesson consists of 4 sections:

Learn (introduces the new lesson)
Write (gives you texts to write by hand and text to translate in Armenian
Review (gives interesting excersises to remember what you learned in the previous sections)
Speak (gives you the possibility to speak in Armenian)

Again we come to the point that you should learn all the sections one by one, as, for example, you can’t do the "Review" section without the "Learn" section, i.e. without learning the lesson.

So, WELCOME TO THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ARMENIAN LANGUAGE!

Introduction

This is the start of my "Armenian Language Learning" (ALL) charity project. Here I'll help you to learn Armenian for free.

The lessons of Armenian language here are very interesting and colourful, combined with photos, slide-shows, musics and videos. You will also learn about Armenian culture, traditions, history and many other things through those lessons. If you follow all the mentioned steps, I promise that soon you will speak, read and writh in Armenian.


Introduction to the Armenian Language

The Armenian language is an Indo-European language, spoken by the Armenian people. Because of its uniqueness, linguists typically classify Armenian as an independent branch of the Indo-European Language family.

It is the official language of the Repblic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora. The Armenian has its own script, the Armenian alphabet. The Armenian alphabet that Armenians use now (for both Eastern and Western Armenian) has been used for more than 1600 years. Eastern Armenian is the official language of the country and Western Armenian is spoken by approximately 50% of over 10,000,000 Armenians worldwide. Here we will learn Eastern Armenian as it’s the official language of Armenia.

The Armenian alphabet was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in AD 405 primerely for a Bible translation to the Armenian and classifies as one of the oldest alphabets in the world.

The Statue of Saint Mesrop Mashtots and scholar Koryun in front of Matenadaran (The biggest Institute of Ancient Armenian Manuscripts in the world) in Yerevan, Armenia. At the stone you can see the original letters (i.e. only uppercase) in their original shapes.

So, let’s begin from the Armenian alphabet.
Don’t be scared and don't try to remember all these letters now. We will learn them step by step.