THE LANGUAGE(S) I HAVE BEEN SPEAKING IN ARMENIA

A souvenir shop at Vernissage, Yerevan Some 10 years ago I would have been absolutely happy to jump at any chance to speak English as this language used to be the very essence of my life. This is why I took Russian, my first language, for granted and saw it as a solid part of my identity — …

WHY ARMENIA?

Barev dzes from the sunny Armenian capital! Why am I here? This is the question I guess not only people I know (to a varying degree) might have been asking, but also the one I have been trying to answer for myself over these seven weeks I have spent here in Yerevan.  But why do we travel in the …