Beginning Armenian - Karamanoukian, Charry

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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

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

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