How to memorize Western Armenian vocabulary: 5 techniques

Why do we forget?

New information that is never reviewed is largely forgotten within a few days. That’s natural: the brain treats unused information as unimportant.

The good news: trying to recall a word just as you start to forget it makes it last longer each time.

1. Spaced repetition

Instead of repeating a word many times on the same day, review it at growing intervals: the next day, a few days later, a week later. LinguDay’s daily test follows this idea and asks about recently learned words.

2. Say it out loud

Listening to a word and saying it out loud uses both visual and auditory memory. That’s why every Western Armenian word has audio and a pronunciation written in letters you know.

3. Learn words in sentences

A short sentence that uses a word is easier to remember than the word alone. Example sentences and conversation lessons give each word a context.

4. Make your own links

Connect the word to a word you know, an image or a memory. The more vivid and odd the link, the better the word sticks.

5. How many words a day?

Starting with lots of words is tempting, but the review load grows fast. 10 words a day is a sustainable balance that leaves time for both new words and review.

At this pace you finish the 300-word Western Armenian core list in about 30 days. If you want to go faster, Premium lets you add “10 more words”.

Sample Western Armenian words

As a member you learn 10 new words like these every day, with pronunciation, meaning, an example sentence and audio.

Tips for learning Western Armenian

• Words of the diaspora

  Western Armenian is the language of the diaspora, from Istanbul and Beirut to Paris and Los Angeles. Everyday speech borrows from local languages, but the written language keeps classical Armenian words; LinguDay’s list follows the written standard.

• Same alphabet, classical spelling

  Western Armenian uses the same alphabet as Eastern Armenian but keeps the classical (Mashtots) spelling, with combinations like “իւ” and “եա” and the spelling “եւ”. LinguDay teaches the 39 letters with Western Armenian pronunciation.