Chinese analyze “Anush”

For already one year the Sanskrit department of the faculty of Eastern languages in Peking State University has been giving beginning classes in Armenian. This was informed to a panorama.am journalist in China by Vahagn Vardanyan, expert in foreign studies and lecturer in Armenian at the university. Currently, he says, three Chinese students are enrolled, and are studying the Armenian language and literature.

Vardanyan adds that books, as well as information from the Internet, are used for the classes. “They can already read and write in Armenian. They are learning to speak, yet need the right environment to advance,” the expert stated.

During the most recent examination, students were asked to analyze Tumanyan’s “Anush” poem.

“Most of them didn’t know anything about Armenia,” Vardanyan said. “This is the reason so few enrolled in the classes.”

According to Vardanyan, government assistance is needed for the course to advance. “There is an Armenian embassy in China. It is almost impossible to do this alone,” he stressed.