Armenian Class

[nunechka]

arevmoodk = west
arevyelk = east

[ckBejug]

arevmoodk = west
arevyelk = east

Yes, that too.

[nunechka]

oh and i would just like to add that this is one of the reasons why our Armenian language is so beautiful...

arevyelk is where the sun rises and that is on the EAST
and arevmoodk is where the sun sets and is on the WEST

isnt that just the most simple thing??? rather then the word east and west which isnt telling of whether it is the side that the sun rises or sets...

[HyeJinx1984]

Annnnnd I'm off to my second day of class now. Will probably post something once I get back.

[nairi]

Yea, right now my biggest fear is not beeing able to grapple the Armenian alphabet because it's sooooo different to the alphabet I'm used to. But once you learn that everything else probably falls into place.

I think if you speak Armenian fluently, you can pick up the alphabet without a problem. Just sit down one afternoon and rewrite the whole thing over and over and over again. If you don't know the alphabet by heart by the end of the afternoon, then you must have done something wrong.

[nunechka]

nairi i love your name...

clever... and it reminds me of this:

Yes im anush Hayastani arevaham bern em sirum,
mer hin azgi vokhpanvag latsakumats larn em sirum
Arnanman tsaghikneri u varteri buireh varman
U NAIRIAN aghchikneri hezachkun parn em sirum


shnorhakalutiun

[HyeJinx1984]

Whoa... what a day. It was all intensive writing and learning of the alphabet. Hard, but what are ya gonna do. However, it was hard for me to keep my mind on the work. Gotta admit, the hight light of my night was not the lesson, but this very very attractive girl who seemed to be very, VERY attracted to me... I've never seen this kind of reaction from someone on the day they first meet me. I mean. wow, this is going good. All thanks to the fact that I'm a fan of Serg Tankian

By the way, to whoever was trying to get in last time but gave up, you should have came today, he was adding whoever was there.

[bell-the-cat]

I think if you speak Armenian fluently, you can pick up the alphabet without a problem. Just sit down one afternoon and rewrite the whole thing over and over and over again. If you don't know the alphabet by heart by the end of the afternoon, then you must have done something wrong.

There was a seller on ebay a few months back selling little scrabbble-like wooden tiles each with a different Armenian letter printed on them. Would have been a good thing to have for learning the alphabet. But I suppose scraps of paper would do almost as well.

[bell-the-cat]

Armenian places a heavy emphasis on the object rather than the verb or the noun. So while in English you would say "I want the house", in Armenian we would say "The house I want" (Tunuh uzum em or Dunuh g'uzem). "Tun" or "Dun" means house. I think that this emphasis on the object may also be shared by another language, but I do not remember which one.

It might be Turkish

[HyeJinx1984]

There was a seller on ebay a few months back selling little scrabbble-like wooden tiles each with a different Armenian letter printed on them. Would have been a good thing to have for learning the alphabet. But I suppose scraps of paper would do almost as well.

Actually my problem is that the sheet I have is a very bad copy, and when I look for the alphabet online it's either super fancy handwriting or a font which looks much different then how it should look. I just need the alphabet written for me in a simple hand printed way and I'll learn it like that *snaps fingers* but I can't seem to find it anywhere.