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Hrayr Teaches John Western Armenian

Linguist Hrayr Varaz teaches John Parker Western Armenian in this weekly podcast. Each episode features a useful phrase, a new learning topic (like plurals and numbers), and an Armenian riddle. The goal is to speak freely, to connect with centuries of Armenian speakers and language, and to draw energy from our shared knowledge and wisdom within the Armenian language. Our first season is ten episodes.Hrayr Varaz is a linguist and pleasure activist with native fluency in Western Armenian and English

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Hrayr Teaches John: Small and Cute

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2026/09/30

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Parev (hello) and pari yegar (welcome) to our -ig (cute) third episode of “Hrayr Teaches John Western Armenian”! First we start with our weekly little phrase about something pulled, sort of. Hrayr then reads this week’s cute jivjiv from pg. 74-75 of #jivjiv language. Ending the episode with a soft cute little riddle.Get your copy of the second volume of #jivjiv created with artist Amy Kazandjian who did the cover art and the gorgeous color

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Hrayr Teaches John: You and Your

Hrayr Teaches John Western Armenian ·

2026/09/23

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Parev (hello) and pari yegar (welcome) to the second episode of “Hrayr Teaches John Western Armenian”! In this episode we introduce the pronoun ‘you’ (tun) and a suffix for ‘-your’ (-t). We start with a sassy phrase involving love, of sorts. Then Hrayr reads the first jivjiv of the season about “you” on pg. 82-83 of #jivjiv language.Finally try and figure out our weekly riddle, taken from a 20th century Armenian language workbook created at

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Series Premiere with our first phrase and riddle!

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2026/09/16

Parev (hello) and pari yegar (welcome) to “Hrayr Teaches John Western Armenian”! This episode is our series premiere where Hrayr teaches John a useful phrase related to what Hrayr’s mind is like pre-coffee.And then we move on to a riddle, which is how we will end every episode.For the rest of the season, we will also have a third segment mid-episode where Hrayr reads one of his bilingual jivjiv poems from “#jivjiv language”. This is the second volume created with artist Amy Kazandjian

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