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| gedamara Diglot Newbie Albania Joined 5339 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German, Albanian* Studies: French, English | Message 1 of 8 24 June 2010 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I've heard from some friends who started learning albanian that it was difficult ? Especially the grammar ! I'm a native speaker so I don't know if its easy or difficult to learn ! I mean there are so many loanwords ,you'll understand most of the words without problem , so i wanted to ask them who have learnd albanian ; IS it really difficultto learn it?
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 8 24 June 2010 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is my post from another thread on the most difficult IE language
Albanian is difficult because it is heavily inflected, not many cognates with other IE languages and speakers seem to swallow-up sounds when they speak it. It is really, really hard. In addition to the difficulties I noted above, I find the difficulties of Albanian as follows (adapted from Wikipedia's Albanian Language entry) 1) 3 different dialects 2) 5 noun declensions with 6 cases 3) Confusing definite articles can be in the form of noun suffixes. These vary with gender and case. 4) With regards to pronunciation, there is a merging of the two series of voiced stops (e.g. both *d and *dh became d). In addition the voiced stops tend to disappear when between vowels. There is almost complete loss of final syllables and very widespread loss of other unstressed syllables making Albanian quite difficult to understand! 5) Verbs with a complex system of moods 6 types and tenses 3 simple and 5 complex constructions! 6) It is difficult to find Albanian speakers outside of Albania and it is difficult to find quality instructional material (relative to, say, French, German, Italian etc...) Dont get me wrong.. Dashuri në gjuhën shqipe! Por kjo është në të vërtetë e vështirë!! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| gedamara Diglot Newbie Albania Joined 5339 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German, Albanian* Studies: French, English | Message 3 of 8 24 June 2010 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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wow I didn't know it was so difficult, however it's nice to know such an hard language cause you'll learn other languages easily XD. Megjithatë ke bërë zgjedhje të mire kur ke zgjedhur gjuhen shqipe , por nuk e kuptoj se pse e zgjedhe pikërisht këtë.
Rroftë gjuha shqipe , ndonëse qenka e vështirë ! PS only one more question . Vetëm edhe një pyetje . When you first heard albanian language like what language did it sound like !
If you wanted to say "it's really difficult" then you should say :"Është ME të vërtetë e vështirë" , that what you said means "In fact its difficult" . However I see you understand albanian quite a lot . what method are you using? Colloquial albanian ? Too bad there isn't any assimil albanian with ease course! It would be much more easier to learn it with assimil coz you don't learn grammar , you learn sentences ect ect EDIT: No double posts please. Edited by patuco on 25 June 2010 at 2:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| idiomasaur Diglot Groupie United Kingdom youtube.com/user/idi Joined 5499 days ago 45 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 8 25 June 2010 at 6:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I think I'd like to learn Albanian, my half-sister is half Albanian, and I went to
Albania three years ago, it was the best country I've been to yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gedamara Diglot Newbie Albania Joined 5339 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German, Albanian* Studies: French, English | Message 5 of 8 25 June 2010 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Its an interesting language but the methods are sh**
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 8 25 June 2010 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | ||
The first time I heard Albanian it sounded like a tape player being played backwards. It still does! :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| gedamara Diglot Newbie Albania Joined 5339 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German, Albanian* Studies: French, English | Message 7 of 8 25 June 2010 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
LOL ! yeah the ë-s make it very strange ! However Gegërishtja është ndryshe ! Edited by gedamara on 25 June 2010 at 3:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Khublei Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Yugoslavia homestayperu.net Joined 5345 days ago 90 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English*, Irish*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Khasi, French, Albanian | Message 8 of 8 04 July 2010 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm learning Albanian at the moment. I'm finding it ok. I've been at it two months now
and I had a fairly basic conversation yesterday with a guy at my pool about where I'm from, what I do for a living and how the water is cold etc. I was happy with that. A lot of my colleagues here (in Prishtina), can't order a drink in the language. There is another book called 'Learning Albanian in a short amount of time', or something like that. It's good because it has little conversations that you would have at the train for example, rather than Colloquial Albanian talking about my mother making lunch (which is also good I know). When I first heard it it sounded like Arabic and Italian being squished together. It's hard to say though, because it doesn't really sound like anything. And as for difficulty, I always think languages are easy at the start. I'll let you know when I'm learning all the cases! Edited by Khublei on 04 July 2010 at 8:39pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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