Jody's Letters from the Road

I like the line in the song "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash that says"If you smile at me, I will understand, because that is something everyone, everywhere does in the same language." I have been studying the Armenian language on my  own for the last few months.  It is a totally different language from English with a thirty-nine character alphabet.  I have not been too pushy on myself because I have feared if I was learning the wrong dialect, I would have to unlearn what I was learning.  Tonight, my first Skype class will begin with Anna who is in Armenia.  I have watched her video three times and begun a notebook with letters, words and phrases she introduces in Lesson 1.  I hope I can keep up with my younger fellow students. Learning Armenian as fast and accurately as I possibly can is very important to me as I begin this new adventure in my life.  Nelson Mandela once said," If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head.