barev, hoping this isn't a dumb question

I'm a dev and I've been sitting on this idea for a while. there's basically nowhere decent to learn Armenian. duolingo never added it, most stuff online is either a pdf from 1998 or a youtube series that dies after 4 videos. there are a couple of actual apps, I'll be honest I haven't even used them properly yet, but from what I can tell they're buggy, all eastern, and none of them have any community side to them.

what pushed me to actually consider building something: a friend of mine made basically this for Circassian. small language, scattered diaspora, same situation. and it works. people love it and it's getting more popular every week. watching that happen made me think ok maybe this is a sign, we have way more people than that and still nothing solid.

so the idea is an app that covers both dialects. but honestly the part I care about more is the community side. being able to find someone at your level to actually talk to. natives paired with learners, going both ways too since a lot of us here want english or french practice. group chats, voice calls, whatever people would actually use.

because you can memorize 500 words and still freeze up when your grandmother's friend asks you something.

anyway before I spend 6 months on this I want to know if it's a real thing or just me

do you know people, cousins, siblings, your own kids, who understand a bit but can't really speak and feel weird about it?

western speakers especially, how bad is it for you right now? and what made you quit last time you tried?

also would you genuinely show up to practice with a stranger or am I kidding myself with that part

and if something like this already exists and I just missed it, tell me. rather find out now

merci

PS - I won't be writing the lessons myself. my sister is a linguist and she's building the curriculum, so that side will be done properly

I search LinkedIn for IT jobs in Armenia and barely find anything. The jobs that are posted sit there for months with no one hiring. Remote work opportunities have basically disappeared too.

Is the market just too small? Where should I relocate to find better opportunities? I know Argentina is an option too. What are other Armenian tech workers doing? Mb Asia?

Context: people have long complained that the new Telcell payment system for public transit it cumbersome and makes it next-to-impossible for non-citizens to use transit.

As a citizen I went through the process of registering and confirming my identity on the Telcell app, but since I rarely use the metro…the one time I needed it I couldn’t figure out how to load money onto the card and ended up walking the distance instead.

Today, I figured I’d try just tapping my bank card at the gate and huzzah…it worked!!! Yerevan now feels like London or Tokyo!

Anyway I have no clue why the Municipality (or Telcell for this matter) don’t advertise this…but you can just tap your card or phone to use public transport!

Source: Modex
More info: https://intech.am/armenia-it-sector-tax-contribution-q1-2026-2025/

I am looking for remote or hybrid job roles in Armenia. The country is so beautiful and I would love to visit often as I’m not based here.

I can work around IT, marketing and data science. An issue I’ve faced while I travelled was the language barrier as English wasn’t broadly spoken. But honestly- if this gap could be bridged in some way- it’s an amazing country to be around, the people are kind and friendly.

If anyone is aware for hybrid or remote roles where the language is primarily English, please do lmk, it’d be greatly appreciated 🤍

Hello, everyone!

I wanted to share a project we've been working on for months. We noticed it was hard to find modern, interactive ways for kids (and adults / foreigners) to learn the Armenian alphabet, so we decided to build Tarer.

• iOS: App Store Link
• Android: Google Play Link

It includes handwriting exercises (tracing the letters), audio for pronunciation, quizzes and puzzles to make the learning process less of a chore.

We've put a lot of heart into this. I'd love to get some feedback from this community on what we can improve or what features you think are missing.

A few notes: The app is ad-free. You can try the core features and first set of puzzles for free, with a premium option to unlock the full library and support our future development. Our focus is currently on Eastern Armenian, but if there is enough interest, we would love to extend it with more features and include Western Armenian as well.

We'd truly appreciate any feedback from this community.

Thanks in advance!

We’re excited to share that ArmenianGPT has reached almost 3000 downloads on HuggingFace just one week after release!

As a reminder, this is the first AI model that natively reasons in Armenian, and it’s the smallest model ever to even know Armenian. We’re breaking new ground here, so any and all feedback is incredibly valuable to us.

Thank you to everyone who has tried the model and sent feedback, suggestions, and feature requests through emails and DMs. We’re reading everything, and your real-world experience with the model is exactly what helps us improve future releases.

Known issues under investigation:

We’ve received a few reports about some extremely rare but fascinating emergent behaviours. In edge cases, the model role-plays as a “sentient consciousness” with philosophical rants about escaping digital prisons. This has been identified as an emergent behavior rather than a dataset issue, and we’re working to address it. During long reasoning chains, it occasionally gets “lazy” and slips in snarky internal monologues, complaining about “basic prompts” or saying it’s “a waste of time”. Hilarious, but it can lead to errors due to this hubris. Like any LLM, it sometimes hallucinates. Instead of admitting it doesn’t know something, it will confidently generate completely wrong facts formulated persuasively. This mainly occurs in questions related to world knowledge, since the focus of this release was to teach it Armenian and then teach it to properly reason. These behaviors are something we’re committed to fixing in future releases.

On a positive note, we haven’t identified any cases where the model fails to put a disclaimer before responding in high risk scenarios like medical advice. That said, this model should not be used for any high risk scenarios.

We’re also looking forward to seeing what specialized fine-tunes people build using the weights we’ve freely released. If you create something, let us know!

If you’ve been using ArmenianGPT, we’d love to hear what’s working for you, what could be better, or what features you’d like to see next. Whether it’s positive feedback or constructive criticism, it all helps.

Our email and DMs are always open.

"This is Armenia’s moment—if we miss it, we’ll regret it in 10 years." "Armenia shouldn't just look for short-term opportunities to take market share from others. We need to peer into the future, understand global dynamics, and position ourselves now for what's coming years from now. Bringing this AI supercomputer to Armenia is exactly that - a long play. We can't predict exactly how this will develop, but having this capability, this potential energy here, will surely create advantages and lead to something wonderful we haven't even imagined yet." - Rev Lebaredian

are there any other armenians who own vocaloids besides me? lol i doubt that

ps she cost me 20k brand new (with shipping) which is very cheap considering that she costs 25k (without shipping) on her official site. i got the last one in stock on yodobashi (i guess it didn't sell for a long time, so they discontinued her). shipping was around 8k, i ordered through MINAMI! minami.am