Speaking Armenian

[sSsflamesSs]

You're right, Baronchik. I wrote a paper on Armenia in 2002 for one of my classes, and the infant mortality rate that year was around 40 per 1000. As you can see above, that number has dropped significantly.

[Ducati]

I've been taught how to read and write armenian since i was a baby..so yeah i can read and write im only 16..

[Anonymouse]

I've been taught how to read and write armenian since i was a baby..so yeah i can read and write im only 16..

That's good. Now all that is left to do is to stop listening to Bad Religion. It poisons your mind.

[HyeJinx1984]

Just to offer a glimmer of hope...

The numbers have been getting better lately. The flow hasn't been reversed yet (and it will be reversed, you shall all see), but with the latest information I've read, birth rate and all is starting to go up (albeit slowly), especially in Artsakh.

If you get the jobs, you'll get the people. I'm sure many Armenians, (Hakhverdian's "Lavakooyn Dgherk") will go back as soon as they know that they can make a descent living, and work in their respective fields. If not from LA, many of those in Russia (many of whom have bought property in Armenia lately) certainly will.

You and I need to be the presidents of Armenia.
I think a lot of the social and economic problems in Armenia will be resolved if we get a solid industry going in Armenia.. specializing in something that can benefit the country as well as other nations and offers a lot of people jobs. The only question is what can that industry be.

[nairi]

It really does depend on parents (esp. in the diaspora), how important they think it is and how well they can cope with teaching it. My parents forced it down my throat even when I was rebelling hardest against it. I know of other parents who either don't speak the language well themselves or don't know how to teach it. Speaking Armenian at home is a lot, but not enough. You have to compensate for school as well, which means reading and writing. And even that will be limited to the parents' knowlegde..

[HyeJinx1984]

my kids will know how to read and write if it's the last thing I do. First things first though... I gotta learn, lol.

[Anonymouse]

You and I need to be the presidents of Armenia.
I think a lot of the social and economic problems in Armenia will be resolved if we get a solid industry going in Armenia.. specializing in something that can benefit the country as well as other nations and offers a lot of people jobs. The only question is what can that industry be.

If you think that government creates industry you are having a pipe dream. First of all, if you want jobs, destroy all regulations, and important export tax, and wage laws, and that sort of crap, and companies will pour in Armenia for cheap labor and providing alot of jobs.

[Tres Bien]

for anyone who wants to improve their armenian i suggest you make a visit to armenia, it helped me alot and i was surprised when I started talking armenian as i came back -without any difficulties, and with mixing up words with swedish.
unfortauntly, as nairi said it is up to the parents when the child grows up , its easy to learn a new langauge but the responsibility is up to them..

Many armenian families tend to moan/nag a lot...even if they dont speak Parskahayeren (with a dialect)

I know a man in his mid fourtees who went to armenia and learnt to read and write and speak it fluently, he didint know a single word before as he and his family was originally from Turkey.

[gevo]

...First of all, if you want jobs, destroy all regulations, and important export tax, and wage laws, and that sort of crap, and companies will pour in Armenia for cheap labor and providing alot of jobs.

Just one more thing to add to this list.. the mafia created by the president and his subsidiaries....

[steelers10]

To answer the first question in this thread is that I can read Armenian and can speak a little and can write a little. It's true I can read Armenian, but 7/8 ths of time I have no clue what I am saying. Every Sunday i went to Armenian school for 10 years, but apparently that didnt help. The two things that probably hurt me the most in trying to comprehend Armenian is that from the start in kindergarten at the Armenian Sunday school i went to they started speaking Armenian right off the bat. They didnt teach it like Spanish is taught in schools. Also being a 4th generation Armenian-American from my dad's side i never spoke Armenian at home, since his side of the family only knows a little.