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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 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.
Start with the places you are likely to describe when talking about a trip. Immediately connect each place to a simple activity.
Which word means “lake”?
Which sentence says that they went hiking in the mountains?
Practise the information that matters at a ticket counter: destination, one-way or return, departure time, and price.
Where is the fictional passenger going?
Which word in the dialogue means “return” as a ticket type?
How much does the fictional ticket cost?
Learn the questions that let you understand a departure board or ask staff for the same information directly.
Which question asks which platform the train leaves from?
Which question asks whether a train change is necessary?
Do not translate travel prepositions word for word. Eastern Armenian often uses a case ending, a postposition, or a fixed phrase instead. Learn the whole travel pattern.
Which sentence says that the train passes through the tunnel?
Which sentence says that rest is important for the speaker?
Weather language is highly reusable because many expressions are short impersonal sentences. Learn the conditions first, then use them in a forecast.
Which sentence means “It is raining”?
Which sentence means “It is cold”?
Combine weather, temperature, tomorrow, and compass directions. The exact forecast is fictional; the language pattern is what matters.
What is the weather like in the east?
Which sentence says that tomorrow will be warmer in Yerevan?
Eastern Armenian makes the comparative very regularly with “aveli” before the adjective. Add “k’an” when you explicitly name what you are comparing it with.
Which phrase means “warmer”?
Which sentence says that Yerevan is warmer than Gyumri?
Learn the four seasons first, then attach the months as four three-month groups. The seasonal forms used in sentences are also worth recognising.
Which word means “autumn”?
Which group contains the three summer months?
Use preferences rather than personal data. Three fictional travellers want different things from a holiday; identify which option best matches each person.
Which fictional holiday best matches Lilit?
Which fictional holiday best matches Arman?
Which fictional holiday best matches Mariam?
Combine the chapter: choose a destination, check the weather, buy the ticket, understand the platform, and decide what to do after arrival.
What is the fictional Sunday forecast?
What do we know about the train?
Which sentence gives the planned activities?
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