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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 17 of 35 10 March 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's what I found for you. I hope it helps: Albanian Literature.net The site appears to have some translations of folktales into English and could be a good resource for further searching.
The next site has a link to a scribd document which you can read on-line or download with a free account: anekdota popullore Amazon UK has a bilingual Albanian/English book for £6.75 Ali Baba and the FortyThieves I also found, at Albanian.com, a forum dedicated to Albanian language: Albanian Language Forum Edited by iguanamon on 10 March 2011 at 10:00pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 18 of 35 11 March 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Super useful, thank you Iguanamon! That forum has a sticky with LOADS of good links in as well. If I could give you a gold star I would :) Edited by mr_chinnery on 11 March 2011 at 4:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 19 of 35 11 March 2011 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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You're welcome, Mr. Chinnery. Glad to be of help. Hey mon, continue to rock with your Albanian studies!
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| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 20 of 35 15 March 2011 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Well...I've been bloody useless the last few days. I can;t seem to drag myself away from
Italian. This isn't a bad thing, as I need to be doing some study every day. I have a week off work at the end of the month, so I'm going to do a little intensive learning, 9-5, five days should do the trick. I have been watching some Albanian TV. I'm still a little in awe at the sound of it. I've also been listening to lots of Italian music lately, and it's definitely beneficial. I'll do the same with Shqip in future. Need to learn more words first tho :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 21 of 35 18 March 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Today I did some more study of 'Spoken Albanian', covering basic greetings, how are you,
things like that. Struggling to fit Albanian into my work/Italian schedule, but every little helps. EDIT: I meant to say I've been using my Italian assimil with ease alot more the last week, I can't wait for them to produce an Albanian version! Plus I keep mentioning Italian, so I may as well make this about my Italian studies too. I'm learning them for essentially the same reasons. Edited by mr_chinnery on 18 March 2011 at 12:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4994 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 22 of 35 21 March 2011 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I started learning Albanian seven years ago when I made it to Albania for the first time. I have a good fluency now and I'm definitively happy with this choice. So good luck mr Chinnery! I just suggest you to try to speak Albanian as much as possible, since there are many words and constructions which can be properly understood only if used.
Punë të mbare! Edited by Dragomanno on 21 March 2011 at 3:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5339 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 23 of 35 21 March 2011 at 3:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find it very interesting to find a person who's interested in learning Albanian - the
only problem is probably the extreme dearth of materials as compared to many other languages, but if you want some original materials, you can find some here: http://setimes.com/ Multilingual news from South Eastern Europe. http://www.voanews.com/albanian/news/ This page should actually be on every language learner's list since you can find audio material for so many different languages there, combined with texts of the audio - a DIY language course, almost... With regards to Albanian, there's also a Youtube section of their news broadcasts (from VOA)http://www.youtube.com/user/zeriameri kes There's also quite a lot of material here: http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ With regards to the difficulty, I'm not sure it's for beginners, but at least it's something in Albanian. Also, there are some quite expansive dictionaries for Albanian: an Oxford Albanian- English dictionary, and an English-Albanian dictionary by Hippocrene/Ramazan Hysa. Apart from that I don't know what else to say - maybe that it's a shame you don't know German, since you would have access to some good looking materials for Albanian, like a phrasebook with audio (Kauderwelsch) and a very good course book with audio. (Lehrbuch der vereinheitlichten albanischen Schriftsprache, different editions) Nevertheless, good luck with Albanian! Edited by Danac on 21 March 2011 at 3:37pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 24 of 35 22 March 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been so busy lately, my language learning has really suffered. I've completely
stopped using Pimsleur for Italian, and moved onto concentrating on Assimil, which I'm finding alot better than I thought I would. My routine is to do an Assimil lesson, then put some Italian TV on and read a grammar book or translate some of 'Va dove ti porta il cuore'. I like to shift amongst resources. It seems when you get stuck on one or stop enjoying it, and move onto another, that the first is easier when you go back to it. I think I'm getting a good grip on grammar. I have made a concerted effort to spend more time on grammar than vocabulary in these early stages and I'm enjoying it. As for Albanian, I've been reading this http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/pdf/albanian_bookmarked.p df in conjunction with my textbook, and some things are starting to make sense. I really need to get the Pimsleur course and get the sounds of Albanian absolutely nailed. Falemnderit, Dragomanno! Purtroppo non ho molte opportunita di parlare Italiano, ancora meno albanese! Sono semplicemente cercando imparare quanto piu posso, fino a quando io ritorno in italia e in albania. Thanks also Danac. You are right about the shortage of resources in English, but it adds to the challenge :) I'm just crossing my fingers that Assimil bring out an Albanian book: that would be so good! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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