Welcome to Lezouneri toun
Established by Yelena Galstyan
CENTER OF INTENSIVE METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Learn English like never before
“What’s at the core of our method? You talk a lot, you listen, joke, and laugh while your brain simultaneously stores necessary phrases and learns to make sentences. As a result, you learn the language without conscious effort. A foreign language shouldn’t be an awkward supplement to the mother tongue; it must occupy its own sovereign territory in your mind. No more inner translation”.
To be successful in business as well as in everyday life it is vital for a modern person to navigate in cross-cultural and multicultural environment. A knowledge of languages is important as never before. Founded in 1976, Centre of Intensive Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, is a unique language school with a solid reputation for imparting high levels of language competence. This competence includes fluency in speech, listening comprehension or authentic speech, reading comprehension of unabridged texts of increased complexity.
To be successful in business as well as in everyday life it is vital for a modern person to navigate in cross-cultural and multicultural environment. A knowledge of languages is important as never before. Founded in 1976, Centre of Intensive Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, is a unique language school with a solid reputation for imparting high levels of language competence. This competence includes fluency in speech, listening comprehension or authentic speech, reading comprehension of unabridged texts of increased complexity.
“What’s at the core of our method? You talk a lot, you listen, joke, and laugh while your brain simultaneously stores necessary phrases and learns to make sentences. As a result, you learn the language without conscious effort. A foreign language shouldn’t be an awkward supplement to the mother tongue; it must occupy its own sovereign territory in your mind. No more inner translation”.
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Centre Psychologist
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WHY CHOOSE US ?
Unique interactive method
Over 40 years experience
Total immersion in the language & culture 3 hours a day, 6 days a week
Optimal student/staff ratio
Specially-trained, experienced tutors
At the Center, we use a custom-developed method. An interactive, heuristic approach that makes learning feel like real communication, because that’s exactly what it is. Instead of memorizing rules and translating in your mind, you’ll speak from day one, building a natural speech mechanism that works unconsciously to shape your fluency, structure, and style. Through proven psychological techniques, you’ll absorb vocabulary and grammar in an active, immersive way, making your speech feel effortless, almost like a native speaker. As we all sadly know, textbook drills do not give you fluent speech. In Lezounery Toun, you can speak, think, and express yourself freely! Experience the difference and get the results you crave.
History
We were established in 1976 as an experimental laboratory at the Russian Language Department of the Armenian Teacher’s Training University named after Kh. Abovyan. The name itself underwent a lot of transformation, going from Armenian Republic Laboratory of Intensive Methods (ARLIM) to a much simpler 'Lezounery Toun' Ltd. ('Domus Linguae' – House of Languages) in 1995 after separation from the University.
The founders of the Lezounery Toun Center knew they had to do more than just teach a language—they had to build a new way of learning it. We asked ourselves: What does it truly mean for an educated person to know a language? And how can students break free from memorized phrases and start expressing their real thoughts, naturally and confidently?
Additionally, we didn’t want students to get stuck or lose momentum. So, we developed an intensive course that’s both effective and refreshingly different. The result?
The work on designing a new technique began in 1972 at the request of the Ministry of Higher Education of Armenia. It was necessary to choose or design a course of the English language for teaching the junior research staff of scientific institutions in the shortest time possible.
The most effective and time-saving system proved to be the system of Prof. G.Losanov, which gave birth to a series of modifications (Prof. I.Y.Shekhter’s, Prof. G.A.Kitaigorodskaya’s, Prof. T.N.Ignatova’s, Prof L.T.Gegechkory’s and many others).
The practical work of teaching was started with the first cycle of the English and French languages using the model of Prof. I.Y.Shekhter. It was offered as a spoken language course for tourists.
The cycles were a success. However it was clear that the contents of the cycles (training in set phrases in standard situations, which met the purposes of teaching tourists) didn’t agree with the needs of the people who aimed at using the language for work. Further the model mentioned above became inadequate, as its purposes were different from those set in our laboratory.
The founders of the "Lezounery Toun" Centre had to work on the development of their own strategy of intensive teaching. It was necessary to understand and express what the command of a language means for an educated person. It was further necessary to help students to switch from "clichés" to really free expression of their ideas, and to achieve this quickly, before they were cut off from the language-learning environment.
The course created at the Centre is in its own way unique: it does the job and solves the problem. As a result of our training, fluent speech without internal translation and approaching the speech of an educated native speaker, is achieved. (That is, an independent unconscious speech mechanism of the target language is formed in a relatively small span of time.)
