lehtinen Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 Hi, I'm interested in learning Eastern Armenian, which from what I understand is spoken by Armenians from Iran. Is that correct? Does anyone have suggestions about the best audio course or books that I could get in order to learn? I'm more interested in being able to speak it than actually writing right now. Thanks for any help! I'm American & English is my sole language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Barev Lehtinen, Yes, 'Parska-Hyes' (Armenians from Iran) speak Eastern Armenian. I know of a few good courses - but only two that specialize in conversational Armenian. One of them is no longer available - it is very good, though: Spoken East Armenian by Gordon Fairbanks, & Earl Stevick Published by Spoken Languange Services. 1958 - revised 1989.I am personally trying to get a copy, so if anyone has this, or know where to get one (including the tapes of course!) Please let me know. Another which I do not know very well is still available at THIS LINK.It's from the Speak-A-Language series I believe there is even a 'compact' course for beginners. From what I understand, it will only give you a rudimentary knowledge of conversational Armenian. Anyway, Good luck and welcome Hye Forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lehtinen Posted May 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Merci vava, I appreciate your help! I'll try and find out more info about both of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Merci vava, I appreciate your help! I'll try and find out more info about both of these. You're welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 Friend of mine use to say: Stop it with this "thank you, thank you". Say "Merci" in pure Armenian so that I can understand you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 Grazias Gam! Armenians will spare no distance to avoid saying SHUN ORHAKAL YEM. I have not said it in emorable time, I never liked it. It makes no sense, it is too long and convoluted, yet some may use it to show off their mastery of the language.We'll have to find a shortr more meaningful word. Besides it is not native Armenian, it seems like Armenians did not have the concept of gratitude until they met the Latins and they translated ""grazia" verbatim except that the Armenian version turned out to be ten miles long and lost its intended meaning.Merci, thank you, shukran, grazias, but no SHUN-orhakal-yem... No Thank you.I wish we would use all that "wind" for better ends.Hey Seap! Is it considered "shnutyun" to be grateful?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lehtinen Posted May 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 Vava, I managed to find a copy of Spoken East Armenian (the tapes) from Amazon.ca. The US site didn't have it in stock but it looks like the Canadian site had one remaining so I ordered it. It looks like the book is much easier to find though. I'd suggest trying to find it on one of the international Amazons - hopefully you'll find it. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 Argh! It was no longer available when I searched for it a few months ago...I even contacted the publisher - who at the time said it was out of print! I guess I should have kept looking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lehtinen Posted June 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 Just in case they have copies available, you could try looking at: www.spokenlanguage.com The Fairbanks book/tapes are listed under 'courses' on the website (the link was broken when I first tried it but worked later on.) My tapes should be coming this week from Amazon.ca so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully that website has some available & ready to go...good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchkachka Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Isn't it also the language spoken in Erevan?? I used A. V. Gevorkian's book "East Armenian Course" which I found for sale under a bridge in Armenia (no kidding), but frankly I learned more by speaking to people there. If you speak Russian there are some other books you can get. In the USA you could enroll at UCLA and take a class in it. If you have relatives you can ask them to bring you some childrens' books from Armenia. Try emailing Armbook@ysu.am which was in 2000 the email of the author. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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