Notes
- This is a very well printed book, but it is just the print-out from the on-line course (50languages: Armenian for English Speakers).
- I bought the book because I wanted an Armenian Grammar which had the Armenian script printed clearly. Well, this is half-way there, in that the script is very clear. Unfortunately, as the website admits, this is just a phrase-book, and the grammar is left completely unexplained.
- So, it hasn’t really fulfilled its purpose. And while the script is clear, it’s not much help in deciphering the tiny, italic, blotchy script full of serifs that seems to be the standard. Maybe once you’re thoroughly familiar with the tidy on-line script, which is what is reproduced in the book, the traditional fonts won’t be so forbidding.
- There is no explanation of the script in the book, but it’s available on the 50Languages site at 50languages: Armenian Alphabet, on Wikipedia and on other Armenian teaching sites.
- Finally, though it’s not explained, the text appears to be Eastern Armenian, as spoken in Yerevan, rather than Western Armenian, as spoken in the Armenian diaspora.
- One thing that’s really useful is that the transliteration is preserved throughout, as well as the script of the language being learnt.
Contents
- People
- Family Members
- Getting to know others
- At school
- Countries and Languages
- Reading and writing
- Numbers
- The time
- Days of the week
- Yesterday – today – tomorrow
- Months
- Beverages
- Activities
- Colors
- Fruits and food
- Seasons and Weather
- Around the house
- House cleaning
- In the kitchen
- Small Talk 1
- Small Talk 2
- Small Talk 3
- Learning foreign languages
- Appointment
- In the city
- In nature
- In the hotel – Arrival
- In the hotel – Complaints
- At the restaurant 1
- At the restaurant 2
- At the restaurant 3
- At the restaurant 4
- At the train station
- On the train
- At the airport
- Public transportation
- En route
- In the taxi
- Car breakdown
- Asking for directions
- Where is ... ?
- City tour
- At the zoo
- Going out in the evening
- At the cinema
- In the discotheque
- Preparing a trip
- Vacation activities
- Sports
- In the swimming pool
- Running errands
- In the department store
- Shops
- Shopping
- Working
- Feelings
- At the doctor
- Parts of the body
- At the post office
- At the bank
- Ordinal numbers
- Asking questions 1
- Asking questions 2
- Negation 1
- Negation 2
- Possessive pronouns 1
- Possessive pronouns 2
- big – small
- to need – to want to
- to like something
- to want something
- to have to do something / must
- to be allowed to
- asking for something
- giving reasons 1
- giving reasons 2
- giving reasons 3
- Adjectives 1
- Adjectives 2
- Adjectives 3
- Past tense 1
- Past tense 2
- Past tense 3
- Past tense 4
- Questions – Past tense 1
- Questions – Past tense 2
- Past tense of modal verbs 1
- Past tense of modal verbs 2
- Imperative 1
- Imperative 2
- Subordinate clauses: that 1
- Subordinate clauses: that 2
- Subordinate clauses: if
- Conjunctions 1
- Conjunctions 2
- Conjunctions 3
- Conjunctions 4
- Double connectors
- Genitive
- Adverbs
Book Comment
Goethe Verlag GmbH, 50Languages LLC (5 Jan. 2017)
Text Colour Conventions (see disclaimer)- Blue: Text by me; © Theo Todman, 2023
- Mauve: Text by correspondent(s) or other author(s); © the author(s)