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Learn a few letters at a time, then expand the deck as recognition becomes easier.
These practical A1 lessons are organised around real communication situations rather than grammar rules. Each one brings together the vocabulary, phrases, pronunciation, and grammar you need for that situation.
Learn the first conversation you need in Eastern Armenian: greet someone, introduce a name, ask where someone is from and lives, choose polite or informal address, use numbers, exchange a phone number, and talk about professions.
Build on introductions by talking about countries, nationalities and languages, introducing another person, naming everyday objects, using Armenian articles and plurals, reading larger numbers and prices, and understanding an address, phone number, and email address.
Learn to describe a home in Eastern Armenian: name rooms and furniture, use colors and practical adjectives, say what a home has or does not have, ask yes/no questions, understand floors and locations, read a simple rental description, ask about rent, and use inanimate direct objects naturally.
Learn to talk about family life in Eastern Armenian: identify close relatives, use possessive forms, ask polite and informal questions about a family, describe common free-time activities, invite a relative for the weekend, sequence a simple city day, and describe past family situations with “was / were” and “had”.
Learn to talk about a normal day and week in Eastern Armenian: describe hobbies and free time, ask and tell the time, say when an activity starts or ends, describe a simple daily routine, use weekdays and parts of the day, read a weekly plan, and make or change a simple arrangement.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for food and shopping: recognise common foods and drinks, talk about how often people eat or drink something, build a shopping list, use simple commands and polite requests, ask for quantities and prices, shop at a market, express likes and dislikes, describe meal habits, and order in a café.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for work: professions and workplaces, common job tasks, work schedules, can / must / want patterns, talking about job preferences, simple bank transfers, describing a workday, moving to and from places, and arranging a work meeting.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for health situations: doctors and specialists, making an appointment, body parts, common symptoms, describing pain, understanding simple advice, prescriptions and pharmacies, a fictional absence note, personal object pronouns, hospital language, and the essential structure of an emergency call.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for moving around a city: transport vocabulary, frequency and travel preferences, commuting and journey time, asking for public-transport directions, locating places, giving street directions, understanding permission and prohibition, interpreting simple road rules, visiting someone, and combining everything in a final city-route challenge.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for talking about completed past actions, yesterday, trips, earlier stages of life, years and “since” expressions, asking about someone’s past, and telling a short fictional life story.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for service counters and official paperwork: identify common public-service tasks, understand fictional form fields, read and say dates correctly, ask for help and clarification, use personal dative forms, fill in and submit a form, deal with appointments and queue numbers, talk about documents and purpose, and complete a full fictional service-counter dialogue.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for travel: landscapes and holiday places, buying a train ticket, asking about departure, arrival, platforms and changes, describing a journey, talking about weather and forecasts, comparing places, seasons and months, expressing holiday preferences, and completing a full fictional travel-planning conversation.
Learn practical Eastern Armenian for service counters and official paperwork: identify common public-service tasks, understand fictional form fields, read and say dates correctly, ask for help and clarification, use personal dative forms, fill in and submit a form, deal with appointments and queue numbers, talk about documents and purpose, and complete a full fictional service-counter dialogue.
Start with actions rather than institution names. These verbs are useful even when the exact office or service is different.
Which phrase means “to fill in a form”?
Which phrase means “to ask for help”?
Forms often look difficult because several familiar words appear together. Work with fictional data and learn the field names rather than entering any personal information.
Which field contains Vanadzor?
Which field contains the street and house number?
Eastern Armenian normally says a calendar date with the month in the genitive followed by the cardinal day number. Do not turn ordinary dates into ordinal numbers.
Which expression means “May 4”?
Which sentence says that the appointment is on May 4?
At a service counter, asking for clarification is more useful than pretending to understand. Memorise these as complete survival phrases.
Which sentence asks “Can you explain it?”
Which phrase means “Please repeat”?
Several common verbs use the dative-shaped personal forms. Practise them through help, thanks, and belonging rather than memorising an abstract table.
Which sentence says “He / she helped us”?
Which sentence says “This book belongs to me”?
Learn the workflow verbs that appear repeatedly around forms. They describe the action without assuming any particular legal procedure.
Which phrase means “to submit an application”?
Which phrase means “to download a form”?
Public-service conversations often combine directions with waiting information. Reuse floors and room numbers from earlier lessons.
Where is the fictional office?
Where is the machine?
The postposition “hamar” expresses purpose: for whom or for what something is needed. Learn a few safe, generic examples rather than memorising changing administrative requirements.
Which sentence asks “What is this for?”
Which sentence says that the speaker is taking a passport for the trip?
Practise the language of a renewal process without treating the example as a real legal procedure. The goal is the sequence: ask for the service, check the form, fill it in, sign, and ask when the document will be ready.
Why does the visitor ask for help?
What does the employee ask the visitor to do?
Which sentence asks when the document can be received?
Combine the lesson: identify the service, ask for help, understand a date, find the right room, fill in the form, state the purpose, and finish politely.
When is the fictional appointment?
Where does the employee send the visitor?
Which sentence says “I do not understand this word”?
Use fictional information and answer these prompts aloud. Nothing needs to be entered or saved.
These are the most useful words from the lesson. Think of the answer first, reveal it, then tell the app whether you remembered it. Words marked “Again” return later in the same drill.
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