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Vocabulearn Armenian Level 1 (Armenian Edition)

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You don't have a ton of options for Western Armenian. This CD will help your ear to understand pronounciation. The pronounciation is clear and the vocab is useful. There's a book that comes with it, although it's translated from English to written Armenian, so unless you read Armenian it's not helpful. I found "Western Armenian Dictionary and Phrasebook" (I'd give this book 5+ stars) to be much more helpful. It's written in English and the Armenian pronounciation is phoenetically spelt in English. I'd buy the phrasebook (written by Nicholas Awde and Vazken-Khatchig Davidian) to actually learn words, etc but the cd helps to hear the pronounciation.

I own this on cassette. It's okay. It is pretty much just vocabulary and phrases. No grammar at all. It comes with a corresponding phrasebook, but the Armenian isn't transliterated at all, so you either need to read Armenian, or spend the time transliterating the words yourself if you want to use the phrasebook.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of options out there for audio Armenian lessons. This one is pretty much it. It could be better, but it's not bad. The pronunciation is good, so you won't need to worry about that aspect of it. If you don't know ANY Armenian, this isn't a bad place to start. Some of the words and phrases are repeated on different sections of the lessons, but this doesn't happen too often.

Also, the format is that it starts off in English, followed by the Armenian word. Halfway through the lesson (which are divided up into Nouns, Verbs, Expressions, and Adjectives/Adverbs), the order switches, and you hear the Armenian word, followed by the English translation. If you are listening to a lesson all the way through, this isn't a problem, as the switch is indicated by the sounding of several tones (the words are not repeated from one half of the lesson to the other- you are hearing totally different words in the second half of the lesson), but it could be an issue if you are listening to it periodically in your car, and lose track of where you are.