We run the first fully-taught Western Armenian Online College, offering courses from Beginners’ to Advanced levels. The courses are taught on Zoom, and are designed, organised and taught by Dr Krikor Moskofian, along with an assistant teacher.
All courses take place once a week and run for ten weeks, and each session lasts 1 hour 30 minutes. The fee per cycle is £210.
Beginners’
Evening
Date and time: Mondays at 7.15 PM (UK time)
Start date: 8 January 2023
During this course, participants will familiarise themselves with the Armenian alphabet using a method devised by the Centre for Western Armenian Studies. Each week a group of letters will be introduced with relevant exercises. Over ten weeks participants will learn the alphabet and take their first steps in speaking, and will also become familiar with the different parts of speech as they learn to read.
Upper Beginners’
Daytime
Date and time: Thursdays at 2 PM (UK time)
Start date: 11 January 2023
Participants will revise and develop the knowledge they have acquired in the Beginners’ course, and will learn to express feelings, describe objects and people, and express possession, as well as studying certain grammatical rules.
Lower Elementary
Date and time: Fridays at 6.45 PM (UK time)
Start date: 12 January 2023
Participants will revise and develop the knowledge they have acquired in the Beginners’ and Upper Beginners’ courses. They will also tackle confusing letters and difficult to pronounce words and sounds; learn to describing the location of objects; have their first taste of noun cases; learn expressions of need; and learn to construct more complex sentence using the relevant vocabulary.
Elementary
Date and time: Saturdays at 5 PM (UK time)
Start date: 15 January 2023
Participants will study the present and present continuous conjugations of regular verbs, and begin to learn declension patterns as well as prepositions.
Upper Elementary
Date and time: Thursdays at 12 PM (UK time)
Start date: 11 January 2023
Participants will learn the capital letters, increase their familiarity with the conjugation of the present tenses of regular verbs, learn the future tense, take their first steps in past tense and learn negating all these tenses, as well as regular declension patterns. They will acquire syntactical structures and practise sophisticated sentences. New vocabulary will allow participants to express their views on different topics.
Lower Intermediate
Date and time: Saturdays at 3 PM (UK time)
Start date: 13 January 2023
This is a consolidation course. Rather than learning new knowledge, participants will use this level to put into practice everything they have learnt since the Beginners’ course, with a particular focus on practising speaking Western Armenian naturally.
Intermediate 1
Date and time: Fridays at 5 PM (UK time)
Start date: 12 January 2023
Participants will focus on past tense verb conjugations and special declension patterns, using them in a range of simple to complex sentences, all the while adding related vocabulary to their knowledge base.
Intermediate 2
Date and time: Tuesdays at 6.30 PM (UK time)
Start date: 9 January 2023
Participants will revise their past tense and special declension knowledge while focusing on giving commands (the imperative mood) and learning new vocabulary through games that reinforce memorising new words.
Intermediate 3
Date and time: Mondays at 5.30 PM (UK time)
Start date: 8 January 2023
Participants will revise the past tense and imperative moods, and learn to conjugate the negative imperative and the past imperfect tense. They will also learn new vocabulary, the formation of adverbs, new declension patterns, and express themselves using more complex sentences.
Lower Advanced
Date and time: Wednesdays at 7.30 PM (UK time)
Start date: 10 January 2023
Participants will learn the present perfect tense while will revising adverbs, the declensions, and all of the verb conjugations they have learnt to date, and work on new vocabulary focusing on adjectives and opposites.
Advanced 1
Date and time: Thursdays at 5 PM (UK time)
Start date: 11 January 2023
Payment and contact information
The fee for all courses includes transfer fees and other costs. For all queries, including payment arrangements, please contact us.
Intermediate 3
Date and time: Mondays at 5.30 PM (UK time)
Start date: 8 January 2023
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