Beginning Armenian

Beginning Armenian: A Communicative Textbook introduces conversational Western and Eastern Armenian in a single volume, allowing learners to acquire the language skills they need to communicate and to reference, contrast and compare both standards of the language.

Autorentext

Charry Karamanoukian is Lecturer in Armenian Language at Columbia University, USA.

Klappentext

Beginning Armenian: A Communicative Textbook introduces conversational Western and Eastern Armenian in a single volume, allowing learners to acquire the language skills they need to communicate and to reference, contrast, and compare both standards of the language. This book contains 24 lessons, each providing a range of key vocabulary and addressing different topics of daily life, including greetings, people, and objects, as well as past and future plans. An overview of the Western and Eastern Armenian alphabet, pronunciation, and punctuation is complimented by a range of exercises introducing the basics of Armenian grammar and vocabulary, with interactive information gap and role play activities designed to develop essential conversation skills. Beginning Armenian is the ideal textbook to introduce class-based and independent learners to the Armenian language.

Zusammenfassung

Beginning Armenian: A Communicative Textbook introduces conversational Western and Eastern Armenian in a single volume, allowing learners to acquire the language skills they need to communicate and to reference, contrast, and compare both standards of the language.

This book contains 24 lessons, each providing a range of key vocabulary and addressing different topics of daily life, including greetings, people, and objects, as well as past and future plans. An overview of the Western and Eastern Armenian alphabet, pronunciation, and punctuation is complimented by a range of exercises introducing the basics of Armenian grammar and vocabulary, with interactive information gap and role play activities designed to develop essential conversation skills.

Beginning Armenian is the ideal textbook to introduce class-based and independent learners to the Armenian language.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Writing System

• The Alphabet
• Pronunciation
• Punctuation
  Lesson 1 - Greetings and Getting Acquainted

Letters: , , , , , , , , , WA , EA

Grammar: Verb "to be"

Lesson 2 - Numbers and Sharing Personal Information

Letters: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Grammar: Verb "to have" and "to be"

Lesson 3 - Countries, Languages, and Origins

Letters: , , , , , , , , ,

Grammar: Regular verb "to live", verb "to know", ablative and locative cases, possessives

Lesson 4 - Review

Letters: , , , , , ,

Grammar: Regular verbs, present tense and negative present, the nominative case

Lesson 5 - People and Occupations

Grammar: Possessives, plural, definite and indefinite articles

Lesson 6 - Everyday Objects

Grammar: Demonstratives, post-positions

Lesson 7 - Whose Is This?

Grammar: Possessive pronouns, genitive case

Lesson 8 - The Time and the Date

Grammar: Verb "can" present tense and negative present

Lesson 9 - Weather and Mood

Grammar: Past continuous tense of verb "to be"

Lesson 10 - Daily Routine and Free Time

Grammar: Regular verbs, present tense and negative present

Lesson 11 - Activities

Grammar: Motion, past continuous tense of regular verbs and habitual present tense

Lesson 12 - Future Plans

Grammar: Future tense

Lesson 13 - Activities in the Past

Grammar: Simple past tense and imperative mood of regular verbs WA - , - , - / EA - and -

Lesson 14 - Dining

Grammar: Simple past tense and imperative mood of irregular verbs

Lesson 15 - Shopping

Grammar: Simple past tense and imperative mood of WA - , - , - , - and EA - , - verbs

Lesson 16 - Asking for Directions

Grammar: Simple past tense and imperative mood of causative - and of - verbs

Lesson 17 - Public Transportation

Grammar: Instrumental and ablative cases, simple past tense and imperative mood of irregular verbs

Lesson 18 - Grammar - Object Pronouns

Grammar: Accusative and dative cases

Lesson 19 - Health

Grammar: Present perfect tense

Lesson 20 - Food

Grammar: Instrumental case

Lesson 21 - Describing People

Grammar: Instrumental and ablative cases

Lesson 22 - Wants, Needs, Opinions, Requests

Grammar: Subjunctive mood and EA future tenses with and

Lesson 23 - Grammar - Postpositions

Lesson 24 - Grammar - Relative Pronouns and Participles

Review Exercises

Grammar Appendix

Further Reading

Index