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Language

by illumina

I was lucky enough to be working with some Albanian students amongst the volunteers, and learned a lot about Albanian history and culture from them. I also managed to pick up just enough of the language to get by!A few Albanian phrases:(ë is pronouced 'uh')Po - yesJo - noFaleminderit - ThankyouMirëmëngjes - Good MorningMirë Dita - Good Day (Don't use after about 5pm or you'll get strange looks and be firmly told 'Mirëm brëma'!)Mirëm brëma - Good evening Natën e mirë - Good nightTungjatjeta - Hello (but this is very formal, and rarely used. I read somewhere it means 'May you have a long life'. Kosovans apparently use a shortened version 'Tung', but most just say good morning/day/evening.)Mirupafshim - Goodbyesi jeni - how are you (formal)C'kemi - how's it going (informal; the c is pronounced half way between ch and sh)C'ka - more or less ok (in response to above)poi jo - and you?Gëzuar -...

Albanian weddings.

by cachaseiro

When albanians get married, the married couple tends to drive through town in a decorated car while they hunk the horn constantly.They will have some freinds following in their cars and they will make as much noise as possible too.I have seen that in a few countries, but what struck me in Albania is that there is always a car driving next to them with a guy who is video filming it all.Usually he is hanging out of the sun roof.

Hospitability. English.

by my.nr1

I did not spend much time in Albania but i have good experience about something and that is - people. Didnt find single person which i would call impolite. Everyone was willing to help. Since i am flag collector i wanted a flag of Albania for me. I asked one man in his store where can i buy myself Albanian flag and he left his store and all things in it and went to search with me. When we found it he was as happy as me! Really great experience. Same was with anyone else!Basically everyone i talked to spoke (bad) english, but hey, thats more than nothing isn't it? :-)

Multicultural country

by michwladlip

In Albania peacefully exist four religious Muslim Sunni, Bektashy ,Greek Orthodox Christians on south,and Catholics on north country,we sought in Albania towns mosques and churches one near another, that is only European country ,were no one Jew was murdered or sent to Germans death camps,since local people gave them shelter in mountain villages, and hided them in another safe places.

Albanian, naming places.

by JLBG

I will not give here a class of Albanian, which I would be unable to do anyway! All guidebooks give basic sentences useful when you visit the country. However, visitors must know that Albanian is a language with declinations. Moreover, in most languages the definite and indefinite form of words are given by an article: in English, “the” for definite and “a” for indefinite. In Albanian it is also a declination that identifies definite and indefinite. Visitors would not pay attention if that did not apply also to place names. Thus the name of each place can be written in two different ways. I will give in the following respectively the definite and the indefinite form for a dozen Albanian cities. When speaking in a foreign language, Albanians use the definite form. Guide books do not always follow this rule!Berati/Berat, Berat in EnglishButrinti/Butrint, Buthrot in Greek, Butrint in...

Standard Albanian language

by JLBG

The Indo-European group of languages is usually divided into 9 sub-groups. One puts together the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Rumanian, etc…) that derivate from Latin. Another one, the Germanic languages (German, English, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, etc…). Another again the Balto-Slavic sub group of languages divided itself between the Baltic sub-sub group (Latvian, Lithuanian, etc…) and the Slavic sub-sub group (Russian, /…/, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, etc…). Modern Greek derivates from Ancient Greek and is the only language of its sub group.Albanian (shqip in Albanian) belongs to the Thrace (or Daco-Thrace) subgroup and derivates from the ancient Illyrian. The only other living language of the Thrace group is Armenian, though not closely related. No other language derivates from the ancient Illyrian.Albanian has burrowed a lot of words to its neighbors...

Yes or No?

by Greatwalk0

When communicating with elderly Albanians, keep in mind that traditionally the shaking of one's head from side to side indicates an answer of "yes," while the shaking of one's head up and down indicates an answer of "no." This is completely opposite from the mannerisms of most other countries, including the USA, and can be quite confusing! This does not as much apply with Albanians in the younger generations, as they have grown accustom to western mannerisms in recent years.

House building

by SallyM

We saw lots of partially-built houses. All were patriotically flying the Albanian flag. They also had a doll (or even a teddy bear) attached to the roof. We were told this was to ward off the evil eye.

Roadside memorials

by frockland

Driving on Albanian roads will be a kind of adventure. The driving habits are not really what they are in other parts of Europe. Although its forbidden to drink and drive the police is not checking intensively on that. Plenty of small memorials are reminding the traveller of road fatlities.

Not sure this is quite a local custom but...

by AlbaniaLover

In Tirana you will see little kids coming round with boxes selling all kinds of stuff from cigarettes, phone cards, roasted nuts rolled in a newspaper cone etc... There are loads of them and they are all running trying to get there before the other one, then the bar staff come out and chase them off!!! If they keep coming up to you you just need to tell them to go away if you don't want anything.

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