Learn to Read Armenian in 5 Days Paperback – November 18, 2015

I've been wanting to learn Classical Armenian, for scholarly purposes, but I kept getting stuck trying to learn the alphabet. This book (which I read as an ebook) was really helpful. In just a few days, I made tremendous progress, and now I can actually begin to use some of the other language learning resources I have, which were previously (effectively) inaccessible to me. Thank you, Mr. Hakobyan!The only significant improvement I would request is more exposure to capital letters throughout the book. We get introduced to capital letters along with the lower case letters, but none of the exercises use capital letters until Chapter 10. At that point, I was scrambling, unsuccessfully, to remember them.

“In five days”? Nawwww. No way.After thirty minutes with this book I conclude that it is doable, after a nicely organized book I have learned half of the letters! Thank you for a book I highly recommend!

This was much easier than I anticipated it, and also gave me some ideas about how to further learn.

This book is short and sweet. Nothing you couldn't find online but organized in a nice and easy to read way. I only wish they also had examples of handwritten letters vs the typed font since they are so foreign to my eyes, it would help with recognition and because I would like to be able to practice writing them, and writing practice in a typed font is kind of strange.

My wife found it very efficient!

Not a very good book. A very poor way of teaching how to read in Armenian. Quite confusing to follow. I am returning it because it was not what I expected. The beautiful picture on the front cover was the only good quality about this book.

Excelent for begginers. Give a good idea about the richnes of one of the must languages . Highly recomended. Thank you

This is a great book! I have yet to find another book that covers the alphabet in this much detail. It is Eastern Armenian in case you were wondering, but the pronunciation differences are small.

You may ask yourself whether it is really possible to learn to read Armenian in 5 days; and even whether it makes any sense to attempt to do it. I would very much recommend it. The book is very well constructed, you learn the letter not by heart in isolation, but in the context of real Armenian words, which you will encounter at every step in Armenia: food, place and people's names, numbers etc. It will make your stay in Armenia much more enjoyable and will be appreciated a lot by the people. 5 days might be a bit ambitious, as it is important to revise what has been learned. But 10-15 days sound to be entirely realistic. Thomas H Bak

Bästa boken för att lära sig språket! Innehåller förklaringar, historia, uppdelad inlärning och de viktigaste saker man behöver!

This is a phrasebook with some grammar.If you want to learn Armenian, get some other book on grammar.This is only for intermediate level learners who wants to learn sentences.

Einfach erklärt, für Einsteiger ohne Kenntnisse geeignet und auch für Fortgeschrittene mit einfachen bis mittleren Kenntnissen zur Wiederholung passend. Shnorhakaloutiun (Danke)

This is a very logical and step by step way to learn an alphabet that previously remained unknown to me. My friends and I challenged ourselves to learn to read Armenian before our trip to Yerevan and this little gem has really helped us all out. Comparing the letters to familiar English, French and German sounds makes it easy to follow along - it says 5 days but the book is split into 10 units, depending on how quick you do the units depends on if you do it in 5 days or not!The only thing I'd like would have been some reading and writing exercises to do, I made some up myself, to help cement the new alphabet in my mind.