Testimonial by Castrenze Nigrelli

Research Fellow, Department of Humanities, University of Palermo, Italy

9 weeks 2021 Classical Armenian (Grabar) Online School

I would like to thank the whole ASPIRANTUM team for giving me the great opportunity to attend the Classical Armenian (Grabar) online course with Dr. Ani Shahnazaryan. Her lessons were of the highest quality and always full of insights. Thanks to her great expertise, the course was extremely useful for my research in the fields of Linguistics and Glottology. In fact, her lectures gave me the chance to quickly acquire new linguistic skills in Grabar at all levels of analysis (i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). 

I am now able to independently and successfully read, translate, and interpret ancient Armenian texts. 

Furthermore, the multilingual and multicultural environment of the class, combined with the kindness of the teacher, made the course an enjoyable opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world and to share knowledge with them about Grabar and Armenian culture and literature.

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Armenian Language courses offer participants to master skills in written and oral modern Eastern Armenian. We also aim at helping students to rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Armenian. Reading and interpreting Armenian texts from different periods may be included in our Armenian curriculum. Before the start of the classes students will receive an online support from our Armenian language instructor.

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Beatrice Spampinato

PhD Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

“Our professor patiently guided us for six hours every week, building our advancement step by step and providing us all the tools to go through ancient Armenian texts. I really recommend this course.”

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Michail Kitsos

Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Toronto

“This class was a blast and so beneficial! Our Instructor, Dr. Ani Shahnazaryan, not only is extremely knowledgeable of Classical and Middle Armenian, but her teaching methodology is superb.”

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Per Pedersen

Pastor in The Church of Denmark

“The lessons were each a well-measured package. I had to put a real effort into it but I was not overloaded, even with a full-time job. Now I feel well equipped to dive into Classical Armenian literature.”

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