Fluently! e- I'll add, I've been there many summers before, so I picked up the speech, and then studied it a bit on my own. It's really beautiful to hear and there are some words/expressions that aren't translatable to English, mostly expressions of affection and terms for emotion.
(back on hubski sorry for delay) It's really tough to keep it up in the states cause I have few Armenian friends and we sorta go halfway at home. In the US the Armenian dialect is totally different, to the point where Eastern (Armenia) Armenian is completely indiscernible to Western (US) Armenian speakers. I couldn't word the artsy crowd thing more pretentiously but it's a different dynamic than here idk how to explain it. Do you speak any other languages?
Yes, Russian. I also was in Ukraine for 2-3 weeks this summer so I understand most of it and can speak a bit now. (Didn't quite get the hang of Polish tho, it's way more different than I expected and hung around the english speaking exchange students) Been too busy with coming back home for the past few weeks to prepare a trip report. And after 7 months abroad, I don't even know how I could possibly condense it in one post. It's nice to see when people don't forget their heritage and still make an effort to learn the language. I'm born in Montreal and people are always surprised at how good my Russian is. I bet you had similar reactions in Armenia.