Some comments on a couple of the materials cited above:
1) I've got a physical copy of the Assimil "L'Armenien Sans Peine", and so can confirm its existence, even if it's no longer in print . It also has a shadow existence on the internet, as PDFs and the audio have been floating around for a number of years. It deals with the eastern dialect.
2) The original Bardakjian/Thompson Western Armenian textbook cited above is now in the public domain. The original version was published by Caravan Books in 1977 and explicitly states that copyright was claimed until 1987, after which it would be in the public domain. Two places to download the PDF are:
https://vdocuments.mx/a-textbook-of-mod ... enian.htmlhttp://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md ... F1F0A050D4Note that the audio posted by the University of Michigan at the second site listed above by Speakeasy (
https://umich.app.box.com/v/UM-FLACS-Mo ... rnArmenian ) is missing the second CD. (I haven't been able to find the missing portion, and the University contact person didn't respond to me when I asked about this a couple of years ago.)
A somewhat revised and more attractively printed version of the book was published more recently by Bardakjian and Bert Vaux and is available in print-on-demand (at a very reasonable price) from:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/bert-vaux-and- ... 66771.htmlI don't think any new audio was produced for this newer version.
3) Another book, which I suspect was never actually published, is listed on Amazon and elsewhere: It's "Eastern Armenian: A Textbook", likewise by Bardakjian and Vaux. I don't think the publisher is in business any longer, and I've never seen a physical copy for sale anywhere. Mysteriously, however, a PDF shows up at
https://vdocuments.mx/eastern-armenian-textbook.html