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  • HyeWayCop
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    Yes, its amazing that we al have diff dialects but not being sarcastic or anything me being beirutsi sometimes i have trouble understanding what barsgahyes & haystancis are trying to say.

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  • Iran Forever
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    I met an Armenian Argentinian in Buenos Aires...and if you are ever in Punta del Este, Uruguay, the AJAX hotel is owned by a wonderful Armenian Uruguayan.

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  • Jen
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    Re: I'm a newcomer

    Originally posted by Dh4m13l
    Hi y'all! I'm a 24 year old guy living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    I work in a call center and one day when talking to a customer on the phone the guy sitting next to me said "Look! The woman is talking to her husband in Armenian! Can we speak a language other than English or Spanish?" He started speaking Armenian and I fell in love with the language. It was "love at first hearing".

    From then on I started looking for information on the internet but I haven't found many things... he gave me some lessons but that's not enough. I've learned the alphabet (?) and I'm trying to read (ha!) a book for little kids in (Western) Armenian. I have Pimsleur course as well. I want to buy the course from www.discoverarmenian.com, but I don't know if it's good. Perhaps you can check it out... or send me the torrent! ...haha... well, it's too expensive for me, it's in dollars...

    Do you happen to have a (GOOD) dictionary on your computers? Where can I get information regarding the grammar of Western Armenian? And I'd like to know if this is the right place to ask questions about the language, grammar, vocabulary, things I don't understand and so on... ok?

    I hope to meet many interesting people here.
    Regards, long live Armenia.

    Daniel

    Hola Daniel, have you tried visiting one of the many Armenian Churches in Buenos Aires??? (for list, check this website http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.ph...n_the_Americas)

    Also, try the Union General Armenia de Beneficencia (www.ugab.org.ar) they should be able to help you.

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  • karoaper
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    Originally posted by Vlad_Arm
    The same way.... maight sound to Eastern's follwoing Wester expression...

    You see someone kinda down, dizzy.. and you ask what happend , the reply
    "Qez el vor qunen hanein, dun al edpes kllair"
    lol

    reminds of a funny episode when I was a kid. Our neighbor's mother was visiting from some village and I was helping her put her toddler grandkid to bed. I was maybe 7. Anyway, afterwards in the living room she announced "Erekhen kuunela". I remember getting red in the face and saying "Vai es inch kekhtot ban a arel erekhen". Everyone was on the floor laughing. Obviously she mean "k'nela", but that specific village accent made it sound like it did.

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  • Vlad_Arm
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    Re: vocabulary differences between Western and Eastern Armenian

    The same way.... maight sound to Eastern's follwoing Wester expression...

    You see someone kinda down, dizzy.. and you ask what happend , the reply
    "Qez el vor qunen hanein, dun al edpes kllair"

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  • The Abyss
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    Originally posted by tunot
    It's supposed to be a joke. Instead of "leres," make "leris" and see what happens..
    Man i got the joke even in arevelahayeren

    by the way it will be a joke only if you write it latin letters, it won't be if you write it in armenian letters

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  • tunot
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    Originally posted by The Abyss
    gue nestis gue leres in western Armenian
    It's supposed to be a joke. Instead of "leres," make "leris" and see what happens..

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  • tunot
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    Re: vocabulary differences between Western and Eastern Armenian

    Originally posted by karoaper
    lol, somethinig like that should be spelt only in Armenian.
    Why is it that time and again only Eastern Armenians get it? See Abyss's conclusion above..

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  • karoaper
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    Originally posted by tunot

    Also the classic: what is "knstes klres" in Western Armenian?

    lol, somethinig like that should be spelt only in Armenian.

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  • The Abyss
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    Badrakagh-chatal-fork (i think chatal is slang in eastern Armenian)
    Havgit-dzou-egg
    yergvargian-vargian-second
    dzanotsoum-kovast-advertisment
    ports enel-barabel- to practice
    azad-barab-free (barab in western Armenian is empty)
    lolknal-loghanal-bathing
    (loghal in western Armenian is to swim)

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