"Armenian for beginners part-1" with the help of intermediary languages

Say your first words, write your first letters, make your first steps on your way home.

Join us, as we gently guide children towards learning to read and speak, recite wonderful fairy tales and songs of Armenia. This course is a perfect introduction to Armenian language and culture, designed specifically for young audience.

Short description:

Online live course, designed for kids 6-10. The course includes learning letters and reading, listening to Armenian songs and fairy tales, cognitive games, group work, communicating with peers.

Level: beginner

Course format: live stream, group, maximum 6 participants

Requirements: low to medium knowledge of spoken Armenian

Duration: 1-hour lessons twice a week, 72 hours/9 months total

Say your first words, write your first letters, make your first steps on your way home.

Join us, as we gently guide children towards learning to read and speak, recite wonderful fairy tales and songs of Armenia. This course is a perfect introduction to Armenian language and culture, designed specifically for young audience.

Short description:

Online live course, designed for kids 9-13. The course includes learning letters and reading, listening to Armenian songs and fairy tales, cognitive games, group work, communicating with peers.

Level: beginner

Course format: live stream, group, maximum 8  participants

Requirements: low to medium knowledge of spoken Armenian

Duration: 1-hour lessons twice a week, 52 hours/6,5 months total

Say your first words, write your first letters, make your first steps on your way home.

Join us, as we gently guide children towards learning to read and speak, recite wonderful fairy tales and songs of Armenia. This course is a perfect introduction to Armenian language and culture, designed specifically for young audience.

Short description:

Online live course, designed for kids 9-13. The course includes learning letters and reading, listening to Armenian songs and fairy tales, cognitive games, group work, communicating with peers.

Level: beginner

Course format: live stream, group, maximum 8  participants

Requirements: low to medium knowledge of spoken Armenian

Duration: 1-hour lessons twice a week, 36 hours/4,5  months total

Do you speak Armenian, but more importantly, do you THINK Armenian, FEEL Armenian? Enveloping children in our language, stories, songs, and culture, we will lead them towards inner understanding of what it means to be Armenian. This modern course will deepen the knowledge of the language as well as introduce the idea of “thinking” in Armenian by creating a more significant cultural and historical bond with our Motherland.

Short description: Online live course, designed for kids up to 10. Children will study literacy and reading, listen to Armenian fairy tales and songs, communicate with peers, participate in cognitive games and group work.

 If we were not given imagination by nature, there wouldn't be the finest works of art and scientific discoveries

The new program of the M.A. M. educational movement is aimed precisely at the development of this important mental process.

The purpose of the program is to stimulate the development of creative thinking of children, to promote the formation of the flexibility of behavior and the ability to find ways out of difficult situations.

To achieve this goal, we chose fairy-tale therapy as a method. During the meetings, we will work with both folk and specially selected authors' fairy tales that will help children see parallels between kind, strong, resourceful, creative, and persistent fairy tale characters and themselves.

Besides reading and discussing fairy tales, the program also includes games and exercises that stimulate the development of imagination and art therapy techniques.

Participation in the program՝

● the child will stimulate love and interest in fairy tales

● the ability to find inventive solutions in difficult situations, the flexibility of behavior will develop

● the child will learn and continue to apply several techniques aimed at developing imagination,

● learn to express themselves freely, share their non-standard thought

* At the end of the program, parents will optionally receive a brief description of their child based on the current observations of the psychologist.

The course is a kind of journey through time and space, the purpose of which is the discovery and self-knowledge of Armenia, the land of secrets.

Traveling through the regions of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, we will study their colors, songs, art, and language, get acquainted with a variety of historical characters who lived long before us, communicate with them, and try to uncover their secrets left to us. The journey is aimed at getting to know yourself better, to love and appreciate yourself. Brief description: during the course, children will enrich their vocabulary, get acquainted with the most important events of Armenian history, discover Armenian art, they will get acquainted with their peers, take part in educational games, debates, and group work, get acquainted with nature, geography, sights of Armenia, life and everyday life of people.

first payment for course

Accelerated course "Armenian for beginners" is explicitly designed for foreigners and Armenians whose primary language is not Armenian. The course includes topics relevant for adaptation in the country, which will be helpful in everyday life and work, as well as expand the educational horizons and penetration into the Armenian environment and national culture.

Any material is explained in an accessible form in the form of colorful understandable diagrams, illustrations, and analogies in the native language.

It all starts with the production of sounds because the phonetics in the Armenian language is different from others. Therefore, much attention is paid to stress and intonation when studying the Armenian language. We will help you learn and apply the basic grammatical constructions, words, and expressions necessary for communication.

It is not easy to learn the Armenian language, but if you approach the matter creatively, choosing the proper methodology, then any material will be accessible.

Methodology

At the initial stage of learning, a natural or emotional-semantic method is mainly used, according to which language learning should begin with understanding the meaning, not the form. It is proposed to learn a foreign language naturally, just as children learn to speak their native language.

At the first stage of the initial training cycle, the student is allowed to listen to the speech of a native speaker until he begins to gradually grasp the general meaning of what he has heard, progressively overcoming his fear of a foreign language.

At the end of the first cycle, when the Armenian speech no longer seems gibberish, the listener can not just study the language but spend an hour of class communicating in Armenian. Thus, the language barrier overcomes, and speech initiative arises – the main factor of foreign language proficiency.

At the end of the first cycle, which lasts about 2-3 months, listeners can already speak Armenian, read small texts, and watch short videos on the Internet.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the First level of the course, participants will be able to

• read and understand simple sentences, in particular, in ads, on posters, in restaurant menus, on shop windows, and understand the basic information of a minor, adapted text.

• understand the basic information (topic, main content, and communicative intentions) of short dialogues and monologues in everyday communication situations;

• be able to maintain a conversation about yourself, friends, family, working day, and free time.

• The volume of vocabulary will be up to 2,000 words.

Academic load

In addition to the main classroom hours, students devote no more than 30 minutes to extracurricular (independent) work on preparing for lessons.