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COLLOQUIAL ALBANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date!
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Albanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes COLLOQUIAL ALBANIAN your best choice in personal language learning?
- Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice
- Clear – concise grammar notes
- Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- Complete – including answer key and reference section
By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Albanian in a broad range of everyday situations.
Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.
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When I started to use the first word in the first lesson, "Tungjatjeta" for "hello", I was advised that it was very old fashioned and nobody uses it any more. My Albanian friends have listened to the tape and advise that the pronunciation is Kosovan. The author acknowledges that fact in the Preface, but for me, I bought the book before being aware of that. But the grammar lessons are good and applicable.
If you're going to Kosovo, it's a great book. If you're going to Tirana, it's useful, but learn pronunciation from Albanians. If you're just an academic or language enthusiast who wants to learn a new language, then go for it.
It is good for being about half the price of a lot of the books out there, and if you are persistent then you can battle your way through.
What you must note though is that the pronounciation you will learn from the tape is different from the pronounciation in most of Albania. It's like learning English from a Scotsman then trying to converse in London.
You will probably be able to make yourself understood, and the foundations and vocabulary will be there, but really it's a different dialect to the one that you are most likely to need to use, so it's not the best way to learn a new language.
If you use the book and get an Albanian friend to teach you the proper pronounciation and slightly different spellings of the words in the most common dialect, then you should be ok with this book.
Ary.
Just bear in mind that it is not just an audio cd but it contains the book as well, so don't order the book!
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