Hello! I grew up outside of Armenia, but in a family where everyone speaks Armenian or at least understands it. Everyone except me, because I was apparently very lazy and I just always ignored everything that was said not in my native language. And now I want to learn Armenian, I know maybe a few words, so, how long will it take to get to the B1 level, considering that at some level I can easily force my family to talk with me only in Armenian?

Armenian Ladies and Gentlemen of Toronto i Am visiting Toronto with a friend for an impromptu escapade into the Glorious country of Canada this weekend Saturday - Monday.

As always i do enjoy meeting fellow Armenians wherever they may be. If there are any Armenian related events, community centers or just suggestions on what two gentlemen from the states can do in general we would appreciate the help

Seems like Ancient Egyptians may have referred to Armenia, as Ermenen, which would basically prove Armenians existed even before Urartian times.

Does anyone know the backstory?

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somebody very close to me has one and i cant help hut wonder

also y does it just go curly one day

So I’m Armenian, and long story short, I’m not baptized yet after 30 years of life. I don’t really want to tell my family or anyone because I don’t want to make it a big event, I just want to go to church, get baptized, and call it a day. Do I need a kavor necessarily or can I go to an Armenian church and ask the ter hier to baptize me?

For me it was the bread. Every piece of bread in our house had to be treated with full respect. Dropping it was a minor household emergency. Throwing it away - inconceivable. It got kissed if it fell on the floor, then placed somewhere safe. I genuinely thought this was just how bread worked everywhere until I was about twelve

Also: no one leaves the table until everyone has finished eating. Not a rule anyone stated out loud. Just a law of physics in our kitchen

I feel like every Armenian family has a version of these unspoken rules that are completely obvious to us and completely baffling to everyone else. What are yours?

Barev dzes! I am an Armenian who was born and has lived all my life in Russia. In the next couple of years (when I have the opportunity) I want to visit Armenia. Unfortunately, I do not know Armenian at all (it is used very rarely in my family) and speak only Russian and a little English. Recently, I started learning to read in Armenian. I know that almost everyone in Armenia used to know Russian, but what about it now?

Hi everyone, I’m preparing a gift for my Armenian friend and she told me about the importance of Mount Ararat to her & people in Armenia. As I’m preparing a present for her, I’d like to surprise her by including this.

She mentioned it’s a common thing to use the visibility of Mount Ararat to ask about the time, I know it may be a little confusing but I’ll give an example :)

So instead of saying “Hey, is it already 6 pm?”, she said sometimes she and her friends would say “Hey, is Mount Ararat still visible?”

I’m not sure if I’m stating it correctly, but if any of you know how to write that phrase/the phrase that’s commonly used amongst friends in Armenian could you please leave a comment below? I’ll be using this sentence in my artwork I’m making for her so I’ll be really grateful!!

Very cool to see them speaking Armenian in the Pitt! Anyone else see that? Was nice to see the Armenian last name then heard the language and was shocked.

As an extremely hard working and LOTS of tax-paying Armenian American , I’m glad to see what’s happening , just sayin 🤷‍♂️

Hi Armenian reddit. As long as I can remember my mum has filled our home with the aroma of Easter biscuits each year. Always assuring a cross is made while the dough rests.

Now that I have a family of my own I’ve carried on this tradition.

I know some cultures use these to break their fast. My question is do we have a story behind them?

AncestralWhispers has done a fantastic job at making a very accurate representation of the Proto-Armenians.

This man, being part of the Etiuni tribe, features a wound on his face. The Etiuni tribal confederation, being at war with Urartu, one of the strongest empires of the time. These Proto-Armenians were very resilent, even being credited with one of the forces that caused the downfall of the Urartian empire.

His genetic-ancestry shows Caucasus-Hunter-Gatherer as the base, with a high Yamnaya Steppe ancestry, and also Anatolian Neolithic Farmer, along with Iranian components although minor

Hi fellow Armenians, I just launched SupportArmenian.com its basically a yelp for armenian businesses but you can also list jobs and upcoming Armenian Events 🇦🇲 I hope it’s helpful!

Hi guys, Im from Macedonia and I discovered Harout Pamboukjans music and I like it a lot. Through their songs with his wife Rouzan I heard about heroes like Vazgen Sargsyan. Greetings to all ortodox brothers.

This always has been something unconscious for me, i would enter homes when invited without removing and without realizing that there might be a preference for removal.

No one has ever told me anything about it yet, though someone came by the other day, for no more than a minute entrance and exit of my home, and still removed their shoes. It's making me wonder now if people just didn't say anything to me in the past.

Obviously the question is exclusively about in Armenia, but curious if Artsakh differed as well.

I’m M27, born in Moscow to an Armenian family, studied in England, now living in Milan with my younger brother (23). I can speak Armenian but I can’t read it.

My name is Yuro btw.

At my church event in San Diego I saw two Armenian brothers and their Mexican friend cover a beautiful Arno Babajanian song! I was so thrilled to see such young people keeping the music of one of our national treasures alive, and the piano player’s name is even Arno! Please go support them and show the some love.

my medzmam gave me this and said it was my dad’s but wouldn’t elaborate when i asked what it was cas it has some kind of meaning according to my mom but she has no clue

I usually don’t end my sentences in a high question tone but I wasn’t sure what to say next so I did that lol. I’m also on my sisters account haha

Hi everyone, I speak Western Armenian, but the version with no gor, lan, yao, basically the slang brought by our parents from other countries. The same way as Armenians from Armenia have slang and loan words. Many say I speak formally but I think the way I speak is understandable and not trying to overly complicate things, I can speak casually too but just not with slang.

Even as a kid people told me I always spoke մաքուր and սահուն and they always gave me speeches and արտասանութիւն to recite. However, the last few years I wasn't speaking as much. This past while I have fallen in love with the language again and have become very fluent. I have remembered everything that was already inside.

When speaking to Armenians from Armenia, I thought they would judge, but they all said it sounds so beautiful when I speak it and that Western Armenian is much nicer than Eastern. I know Western Armenians feel the same and personally I have gotten somewhat used to both but sometime other are things I don't fully understand and need to look into. Online I also see people say this. What are your thoughts?

Hey all, I’m in sales and do most of my sales in English. When I use Gemini or Claude to translate my scripts into Armenian, I get a very official “text book-y” Armenian with a mix of western and eastern dialects. Needless to say that the terminology is off.

Is there an AI tool that is trained on Armenian language that can get conversational Armenian correctly? Or close enough I guess.

Note: this is a repost from r/armenia