Nothing beside remains. Round the decayksiężycowy wrote:Yup. This is what remains.
księżycowy wrote:Not at the moment, sorry.
Meera wrote:I wish I was studying Armenian!
HoItalosPhilellên wrote:Meera wrote:I wish I was studying Armenian!
How could you like Armenian but not Greek?
mōdgethanc wrote:I like the sound of Armenian. I mean, how many other languages allow consonant clusters like khndrem? (Answer: Georgian.) The problem is that I find the script incredibly ugly and have no use for it, so I don't have any motivation to learn it.
Those consonant clusters end up getting broken up in real speech by schwas (which I suspect might be the case in Georgian and other languages with seemingly-impossible consonant clusters as well). And you are totally right about the script. It's one of the most difficult aspects of an already difficult language. All the letters look alike, and there are too many variations (capital vs. lowercase and print vs. cursive means sometimes learning up to four different forms for each letter). Even when I developed a passable level of speaking in the language, I gave up on reading and relied on signs written in Cyrillic to get around Yerevan.mōdgethanc wrote:I know this is a cliché but all Armenian letters look alike to me. I can't tell them apart and it makes the language unreadable to me.
eskandar wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:I like the sound of Armenian. I mean, how many other languages allow consonant clusters like khndrem? (Answer: Georgian.) The problem is that I find the script incredibly ugly and have no use for it, so I don't have any motivation to learn it.Those consonant clusters end up getting broken up in real speech by schwas (which I suspect might be the case in Georgian and other languages with seemingly-impossible consonant clusters as well). And you are totally right about the script. It's one of the most difficult aspects of an already difficult language. All the letters look alike, and there are too many variations (capital vs. lowercase and print vs. cursive means sometimes learning up to four different forms for each letter). Even when I developed a passable level of speaking in the language, I gave up on reading and relied on signs written in Cyrillic to get around Yerevan.mōdgethanc wrote:I know this is a cliché but all Armenian letters look alike to me. I can't tell them apart and it makes the language unreadable to me.
mōdgethanc wrote:I know this is a cliché but all Armenian letters look alike to me. I can't tell them apart and it makes the language unreadable to me.
Extraordinarily little. Less than any other country I've been to in the world. I learned Armenian there not because I was interested in the language per se, but because I didn't know Russian and hardly anyone seemed to understand a word of English.Meera wrote:This might sound like a silly question but how much English is used in Yerevan? I read in the other thread most Armenians know Russian, but I was just wondering if English was also widely used or not.
eskandar wrote:Extraordinarily little. Less than any other country I've been to in the world. I learned Armenian there not because I was interested in the language per se, but because I didn't know Russian and hardly anyone seemed to understand a word of English.Meera wrote:This might sound like a silly question but how much English is used in Yerevan? I read in the other thread most Armenians know Russian, but I was just wondering if English was also widely used or not.
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