Learn Albanian

we were at lecion 3 already? so i must have skipped 2 of them. (i was aware of only 1.) but i’ll catch up. i like this class, material is good, lecturer is nice and other students are very good.
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met a nice albanian woman, and she gave me this idea i got totaly excited about. i have red the whole albanian dictionary in 3 days in search for dubrovnik words and i have found them abt 200!
there are more croatian-albanian common words, like jug, beton, karton, chaj, kosh etc etc. but those are intersting becouse they are used only in dubrovnik dialect where i was born. words like rubinet, bidon, biond, xheloz, patata & krtola, pirun, serioz, xhiro…

bad thing about this is that i ceased to do literally anything else this week. than i started to list all dubrovnik words i can remember, red an Ivo Vojnovic book and listed all words from there, and it got even worse, i collected words from internet… 488 of them.
only to discover dubrovnik dictionary already exist so i’ve ordered it today.
i want to make a dictionary of dubrovnik-albanian synonimes and i got totaly mad about it, neglecting all things in my life… i can do it if it makes me happy (and it does) but in the mean time i need to live with both feet on the ground, wash the dishes, cook, excercise etc.

i woke up 1hr earlier with no problem. i was determined so sleeping in was not an option. (but i was still late – need to lay out things night before.) lecturer is nice and pleasant and i enjoyed it. i’m so glad that i discovered this opportunity.
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skripta za albanski jezik FF

and i have some family there, distant but close to my hart.
so i feel language course is the easiest way to do.
FF & ling.

bosansko-albanski rjecnik

hrvatsko-albanski priručnik

manjinske zajednice alb. u zg.

albansko-srpski rječnik

Ex-boyfriend was from Kosova and his parents (whom I still love) cannot understand anything except Shqip. Had to learn a few words turned phrases turned sentences.

But I am not perfect in the language and I want to be although I can understand people when they speak slowly. I can create sentences too, but slowly (again).

And yes, I am planning to go to Kosova soon, just to visit.

My friends found out that an officer that works with us is an albanian linguist in the navy! (one of 4 left) We talked for awhile, it was really cool to find someone else who knew hte language.

He wrote out a book of 500 commonly used verbs in the language, conjugated (sp) them and all! and he’s going to let me have it (when he remembers to bring it)

Not only is it nice knowing he’s going to help me out in learning the language, but i think it’s motivated him to start studying it again :)

i dated a guy from Kosovo, and since then i’ve really been interested in albanian.
it’s a pretty language,
i’m taking lessons once a week online with a teacher from albania and its really helping :)

I have participated online Albanian language school.
I thank IALC for their help to me and I suggest you the same source.

Online classes with LIVE Albanian teachers.

Visit: www.learn-albanian.com

I got a certificate in Albanian as a foreign language.

I learned Shqip on the streets (the “barefoot method”) while teaching in Albania for 2 years. I never had the time to take classes, but eventually I did trade language lessons with some friends. What a lovely language, and so enlightening for anyone interested in etymology! For instance, “vere” is the word for summer or for wine. “Pranvere” is spring, or could be understood as “first wine.” “Primavera,” anyone?

I tried teaching myself Albanian in August of 2005. In October I hired a professor from the University of Utah to give me private lessons. The most difficult thing that I have encountered is the concept of noun declension. All languages have verbs that are conjugated in various tenses. Usually, this will be reflected in the end of the verb. But in Albanian, the ending of NOUNS change as well, and they are affected by the contexts in which they are being used. But now I can actually sit down and read the news in Albanian and pretty much understand what the whole article is about!