GJUHA SHQIPE! The Albanian Language is Awesome
This video is all about the Albanian language! Shqip!
Special thanks to Erbi for his feedback and audio samples, as well as Fabio Beta for his additional samples and feedback. And thanks to the other Albanian speakers who answered all my questions, including Ertjan Arapi, Dritëro Ferri, and Gabriel Ruta.
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Major sources include:
Discovering Albanian 1, by Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos.
Colloquial Albanian: The Complete Course for Beginners
By Linda Mëniku, Héctor Campos
Kapia, Enkeleida (2010). The role of syntax and pragmatics in the structure and acquisition of clitic doubling in Albanian. Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University.
Discussion points based on the above dissertation:
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“Albanian” by Alexander Rusakov. Found in “The Indo-European Languages,” edited by Mate Kapović, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat. Page 552-600.
“The Albanian Tense System” by Jean-Louis Duchet. Found in “Tense Systems in European Languages II,” edited by Rolf Thieroff.
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I swear we Albanians aren't dead inside when we talk.
You make me laugh
That is what i thought LOL XD
😂
hehe, but he said it wasnt easy for him to find any Albanian speaker.
yea we make sure the whole city knows whats up
Mirëdita nga Polonia. Po tentoj ta mësoj gjuhën shqipe por duhet të them që shqipja është njëra nga gjuhat më të veshtira në Evropë. Këtu në Poloni shumë njërezit duan Shqiprinë dhe shkojnë tek ju për pushim. Besoj që edhe unë do të vizitoj Shqiprinë këtë verë.
@Milot Gashi Përshendëtje, si je?
@Milot Gashi Edhe unë jam mirë, faleminderit. E mësoj këtë gjuhë katër vjet në kuadrin e ballkanistikës. Kjo është dega të cilën po studioj në fakultet. Po ju?
@Milot Gashi Po Polonia ishte atdheu i albanologjisë jashtë Shqipërisë. Shumë polakët kanë shkruar veprat të rëndësishmë për gjuhën shqipe si për shembull Wacław Cimochowski ose Irena Sawicka
@Milot Gashi Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika në Torunj (këtu po studioj), Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza në Poznanj dhe Universiteti i Varshavës
@Milot Gashi Faleminderit, ndodh qe si studentët e ballkanistikës bëjmë një party këtu në qendrën e Polonisë dhe këndojmë Xhamandani vija vija, Kuq e zi ose Valle Kosovare
I am a learner of Albanian from Austria and have to admit it is a difficult language. However, there is also a lot of Latin based vocabulary. This makes learning much easier and also the conjugation patterns are straight forward. The most difficult might be the noun declension, but you get used to it as well. And I have to say that Albanians are very kind and helpful people, which makes learning a pleasure even though the language is a challenge. Much love and respect from your old allies in Austria. Rroftë Shqipëria!
Faleminderit Shumë 🇦🇱👐🇦🇹
Hallo! Ich bin Spanier aber wohne in Österreich, und lerne wie du auch Albanisch. Warum lernst du diese Sprache? :)
Thank you brothers 🇦🇱❤️🇦🇹
We don’t have any Latin in our langue at least if you know it and speak it properly. On the contrary, Latin has Albanian words that only Albanian langue can explain. Majority of Latin words have unknown origin hence a dead langue today.
yes you are right many latin words from old romanian language of middle ages(before and after ottoman conquest). As albanian dictionary channel explains this is the reason why albanians who migrated to italy right after the ottomans took over, cannot understand over 70% of today's albanian words. Because the true albanian language was destroyed, what remains today is an amalgam that mirrors all our tragic history( romanian, latin, slavic and of course turkishs words)
If languages are seas of emotions, cultures, particles of past and glimpses of future, Albanian is an an ocean that narrates a story with every word and phrase.
That’s a very poetic comment! 😊👏🏻
Narrative. Secret message of who is apparently making you suffer. It's fun
I like how they picked the happiest guy to do the Albanian in this.
I want him to read me a bed time story
lol, i know right! 🤣
Sleepy Albanian...
Lol, that's barely even Albanian, speaking Albanian like that will get you famous on comic pages online, that's how ridiculous that sounds to us usually. We speak a bit louder, more manly in general and the letters are more clearly separated or at least more distinctive as sounds i would say. Then again, this is Tosk (South) dialect so it's also heavily affected by Greek in the way it sounds while Geg (North), sounds much more manly and confident but also sets a line that can't be crossed in the way we sound. You can talk Tosk for example but have to have the Geg sound to it or you will sound either Greek, French (Just kidding) or like this guy.
its ok to say albino
I speak Albanian since i was born but i’ve never realized how difficult its grammar was.
What do u mean ? It sounds normal like mix from launges.So are u muslim
Mos thoni budalleqe ne syte e te huajve se na nxorret namin ne tan boten. Kaq budallenj jini. Sa beni pyetje te cmendura.
heavydirtysoul thats not true English is much harder than Albanian cause Albanian you dont change anything when you say write and read you dont change it but in English everything changes
@@egzonbegolli8158 gabim je. Ska lidhje shqiptimi, ajo msohet leht, Amo shqipja osht shum ma e shtir.
@@egzonbegolli8158 in you're perspective nothing changes in Albanian and in English pronunciations change but in someone else's perspective(someone American/British) English doesn't change anything and Albanian does
im albanian and i love that everyone is trying to explore our culture and our language
Ye me to but i live in KOSOVA
Long live the glory of Skanderbeg 💪
Dude, I literally discovered albanian trap, and I love it. Help me to learn it please.
Can you recommend some Albanian singers? Like pop singers
I think people are finally beginning to realize that Albanians have been around for a long long time and have a beautiful history and culture.
Albanian language is unique and its grammar is fascinating. Neither Romans nor Ottomans could destroy with the latter making it illegal to write or read it for 500 years. The schools and universities were destroyed and no new schools allowed for 500 years. Yet Albanian langue still knocked the ottomans out! It is oldest language in Europe and one of the oldest in the world.
I tip my plis to you 🤝
As an albanian native speaker, we DO NOT sound dead when we talk lol
anything but Dead, c'mon we are amongst the liveliest bunch there is "llugë e çojmë n'tana an't" hahahahahhaha
@@petrithysaj4529 hahahaha op
YEAH THATS TRUE thats just a translation
As they say: We are a small country with a big hart. Translated to Albanian:Jemi një komb i vogël me një zemër të madhe
Po ajo eshte e vertete
I've studied Albanian for two semesters in Budapest. My professor was really happy to have me as literally no one else took the chance to study this beautiful language. Greetings from Hungary - and faleminderit for sending us over prof. Lala.
Sirinwana, were you the only one?
@@fitorek.760 yes
@@Sirinwara wow, too bad, but i can unterstand. I think hungarian is more difficult than albanian.
@@fitorek.760 it certainly is haha. My professor is now fluent but it took her almost five years to master it
Seriozisht ke studiuar shqipen? BRAVO 🤟😎🤟
My great-grandmother was from Italy, but her native language was Albanian. She was from San Demetrio Corone, where it's still spoken by the locals.
Wow this is very beatiful, they went there in the 15th century running away from the ottomans and they still didnt forget it!!
Arbereshë 🇦🇱♥️
Arbëresh❤🇦🇱
I nostri fratelli voi siete i veri albanesi i figli di Gjergj Kastrioti. Voi avete aiutato noi molto contro i greci ladroni e i serbi slavi...voi siete la nostra salvezza ❤😊😊
We ilirians 🇦🇱 🦅 🇦🇱 🦅
Faliminderit që po fol për gjuhën tonë! Përshëndetje nga kosova!
One thing I learned from this: Thank God Albanian is my first language otherwise I would have never been able to learn it lmao
for sure ¡¡
@@johnny_eth Thank GOD for allowing you to be born from your mother*
Same
Hhahahahah vrk
@@Lonystal p
Here in Egypt there are many people have an Albanian origin, They were named Arnaut & lived in Egypt during the Ottoman rule however the Egyptian royal family which ruled Egypt before the 1952 coup d’état was of Albanian origin Greetings 👋🏻 to all of my Albanian brothers & sisters
Sal 040 Any foreigner lives in Egypt whatsoever his origin or religion muslim, christian or jewish by the time has assimilated in the Egyptian society & speaks Egyptian Arabic
Have u ever heard about shejh Albani?
@@festimhasa8478 Yes but he lived in Syria not in Egypt
There also was a mayor in Libanon that was Albanian, alot of sultans viziers was also Albanian origin a whole dymasty of viziers of Albanian origin was established in ottoman turkey, called the köprulu era. From 1656-1716 if im not mistaken
@P3P4J You've admitted in several comments here that you have serb origins ? are you proud of that ?
Ancient, complex, and beautiful language.
Thank you, Paul. I have just returned from Albania. Your video the trip more enjoyable and… started to dissipate my linguistic ignorance. Going back to Albania in January, hopefully. Well done!
I´m Brazilian and I'm learning Albanian by myself!!! Love it!!!!!
which method do you use?
@@fatsamurai1988 I'm practing the speaking with videos, and trying to practice Albanian reading with videos on youtube.
Daniela Pedrosa,why you are learning albanian?? Can I know??
@@aabm9336 I'm learning Albanian because I simple love studying languages! I don't care what people may say!
@@danielayalmanianf.pedrosa5898 ok,happy to hear that
Hungarian: "I'm the hardest European language to learn." Albanian: "Hold my birrë!"
Hungarian is considered the hardest European language?
Both Albianian and Hungarian are unique languages.
@Albion Kastrioti it is
@Albion Kastrioti Hungarian is "European" in the sense that it is spoken in Europe, even though its earliest speakers came from Asia. However, you are right in the sense that Hungarian is not Indo-European; it's Uralic.
@@walktroughman1952 What about slavic languages, like Polish and Czech? Aren't they harder for English native speakers?
I'm proud of my Country 🇦🇱 i'm proud of my language 🇦🇱 i'm proud to be Albanian 🇦🇱 much love from Italy (i'm Albanian born in Italy)❤❤❤❤
I'm albanian and i decided to watch this video for fun and i have a message for the people who are learning the albanian language: i wish you the best of luck because albanian has to be the hardest language ever if ur not a native speaker.
I always thought it would be English and Mandarin, but dang Albanian is the most beautiful language I’ve heard. I thought I would do Swedish or Danish after Catalan, but maybe I’ll be up for a challenge.
Aliens land on earth:start talking. People:what? Albanians:step aside we can understand them.
Albina Jeta 😁😂
HHAHAHAHAHA
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Albina Jeta 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱
You have choosen the most depressed suicidal mood native albanian speaker I've ever heard on KZhead hahaha
It hurts my ears listening to him pronouncing the Albanian words even though I am Albanian myself. Such a boring speaker.
@@The.steppenWolf Wanna hear Albanian that rocks? check out Dafina Zeqiri on KZhead (gorgeous lady on top of that)
Franc 😂 hahahahahaha
@@The.steppenWolf ai sikur s'kishte ngrene buke 😭
Apparently I contacted him and he told me it was 3 am when he recorded it that’s why he sounds so depressed and tired haha
Beautiful language. It sounds very ancient.
Because it is!
Greek
It's a mix of greek , latin serb and turkish do not all
@@Useraghjk14almost no serbian in it
@@Useraghjk14😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm ashamed that I know so much about countries and languages but really knew very little about Albania and its language. Very interesting that they ended up in Italy, particularly near where my people came from in Italy... wouldn't it be funny if I had Albanian blood, going way back?
Thoughts and prayers for the people of Albania. love from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇦🇱
Grazie❤
Graziee ❤️❤️🇮🇹🇦🇱🇽🇰♥️
Qifsha rropt❤
thanks man
😣😢😥 god bless fratelo
Life doesn’t get easier, you just become Albanian
That pfp is drip asf
Fiks 😌
@L A gradeaundera fan by any chance?
Just no.
@@bokibo87 bro stop bein a hater get out of this comment section🤦🏽♀️
Faleminderit! I especially loved the background information. Great lesson.
Thank Paul, the video is excellent. Well done and delivered! Impressive.
All my thoughts to the people affected by the recent earthquake. 🇦🇱
Same
@@MaxArturo stop being a troll, this is about human lives.
Thank you so mutch ❤️
What does that do any good?
Ya I agree with Danijela Mali they did deserve it
As an albanian i feel ashamed that this guy knows more of my leanguage grammar than i do😂
Cool Channel totally agree 😂
The same for me 😂😂 qija nanen
shkoni n shkoll plak
@@biorn1255Por ne shkoll mesuesit sdin per vete ama
@@labinothasani8672 ahahhahaahha tmm un kisha harru rasat 😂😂
Here in the states I have worked and known Albanians. One thing I have noticed. They speak very good English. Yes, they have accents, but easy to understand.
Jam nje kinez po mesoj gjuhen shqipe, dhe po gjej nje shok shqiptar per te me ndihmuar pak...
Jam një kinez që po mësoj gjuhen shqipe, dhe dua të gjej nje shok shqipëtar për të më ndihmuar pak 😊👍
@@thelastknight5505 hajt lene ata "ë" se prap se prap kuptohet
Shqipn e ke pash bodh mir n'qoft se e shkrujte pa perdorimin e "google translator". Nja do gjana t'shpejta: N'qoft se zanoria e fundit te nji fjale asht "A-O-U-E" duhet per her nji "E" por per "I"en dhe "U"n asht gjithmon "I" Shembull: Ort e markut Malet e markut Shokt e markut Shpata e markut Shpatat e markut (zanoria e fundit prap A) Lapsi i markut Shoku i markut (plural makes it need a "e instead like i showed up)
Future tense: There are 2 forms, i recconand using the second as it is close to english To be verbs form 1: Kam me qan Ke me qan Ka me u qan Kena me qan Keni me qan Kan me qan To be verbs in second form: Do te jem Do te jesh Do te jet Do te jemi Do te jeni Do te jen
My grandpa taught me Albanian when I was a child and I was watching this video like : "omg how can I speak such a difficult language!? " lmao
It's a beautiful language though ! You should be proud for speaking it.
@@ilajdaxhindi oh well I'm not proud, but I'm very proud cause it's my language!
Albanian is so complicated 😅 how does it sound to you?
@@dcjkl8088 well it sounds very familiar until it comes the dialect. There I get lost sometimes hahahah anyways it is very complicated though.
You're lucky-- I really wished i'd grown up speaking such a unique language
Such an interesting and well-made video! It was also extremely informative, so, thank you, Paul! Even though I am not Albanian (I am half Romanian, half Slavic), I absolutely love Albania and its people. Albanians generally are such nice, welcoming and sincere people and their country is extremely underrated by tourists. I've been to Elbasan, Vlore, Durres, Berat, Butrint, Sarande, Tirana, Shkoder and Gjirokastra and I loved each and every single one of these cities, especially Gjirokastra, the birthplace of Albania's biggest writer, Kadare, and Vlore and Durres. I felt so bad hearing about what's been happening in Albania lately, with all of these earthquakes... my heart goes out to all of the Albanians who have suffered and who have lost either their loved ones or their house... Let's hope for a better and brighter future for Albania. Sending lots of love from Romania ❤️
hatshepsut Faleminderit for your kind words,glad you had a good time here:)
Thank you
Thank you so much! From Albania Respect to Romania
hatshepsut Thank you for those kind words. Much love from Albania!
Such heartwarming words! It was a very very strong earthquake. My home did survive many earthquakes prior to this, especially the one of 1979 without a single scratch, but this earthquake was particularly nasty. A horizontal earthquake( instead of vertical ones) that lasted almost a minute( too long), shaking everything possible. For the first time my parents home had all the cupboards fallen down and a piece of plaster falling. I'm just praying that the building will be able to get repaired and not being forced to break it down. I am far away and heartbroken, but Albanians are strong people and they will overtake this. We are used to catastrophes and hardships, nothing scares us really. We will build again, we have done that constantly throughout our existence, due to wars and devastations... Thank you again for your kind words to Albania and it's people!💖💖💖💖
the way you explain the language is amazing well done 👏
The palatalised consonants are very interesting - they're basically the same ones you get in Mandarin Chinese. This is the first other language I've come across which has them.
Polish too!
As a Greek, I love Albanians and their language. I am trying to learn it. There is an animosity between Greeks and Albanians but personally I believe that Greeks and Albanians are closely related and we need to strengthen our relationship between our peoples and countries.
Ignorant people will always hold grudges. Salute you brother from Albania!
@@geriibra1645 Përshëndetje my friend!!!
👏👏👏 this is what i call civiled and educated person .
@@Ram-co9xy Thank you my friend!
@@Katatopianos ευχαριστούμε η να στο πω στα αλβανικά falemenderit και στα μεσαιωνικά αλβανικα kharisto
I speak a gheg dialect. When I was a child, I heard once on holidays in South Albania for the very first time native Albanian speakers in their tosk dialect and I thought to myself "what the heck are they talking?". Later I understood the little differences between these two dialect forms. I was very fascinating about that and as a teenager I began to read about them and other languages and so I became a little language-nerd - many years ago that brought me to your channel and I immediately subscribed your channel :) Many thanks to your videos and keep going Paul!
Yay!
mendoja se vetem ne jugoret nuk ju kuptonim po ja qe dhe ju keni veshtiresit tuaja.Me qe ra fjala per dialektet car do me then qit ne Gegishten
Albanian is such a fascinating language. I listen to some songs in Albanian even though I don’t know what they’re saying.
@@kathoelt You are not the first many people does that :)
@Lazi Ilir Danga Gheg dialect is the oldest first Albanian speakers have that dialect from ILLYRIANS
Thank you so much for showing our beautiful language to other people in the world 🌎 ❤ 🇦🇱 Really appreciate this video 🥰
You have made a very accurate and clear summary of the Albanian language. I am from Albania and I am glad that there is interested in this language, even if we are a small country. Thank you all🤗🤗🤗
I am a non-native speaker of Albanian, I learned it for fun and for my PhD. I mainly focused on the Tosk dialect from Korca area and I mastered it really good. However this summer I fell in love with a Kosovar boy and in the process of communication with him my dialectal base sort of shifted further to the North, now I mix Tosk and Gheg features in colloquial speach, and whenever I try to speak more formally, I sound like a well-educated Gheg speaker who has spent years in the south)
Full immersion! 😀
Did you find it that hard to learn the language??
I see you even have subscribed to RTSH Korca im dead hahahah
@@arturahmeti486 no, not really. The main problem was the lack of good textbooks and teachers in my country, so I have to travel to Albania. When the textbook by Linda Meniku and Hector Campos "Discovering Albanian" was published, it answered so many of my questions, and I could also see that I had gotten some things completely wrong.
💖🥰🇦🇱🇽🇰 how long did it take for you to learn fluently? What is your first Language?
Greetings to all Albanians from America. I have studied some Albanian because I have some friends here in the neighborhood. Albanians are really friendly, they always invite me over their house to eat food or to drink an Albanian drink called "rakee". I love you all Albanians = Ta chifsa nonen!
Bruh they set u up with that Ta qifsha nonen lmfao
Do you know what that last sentence mean🤣if not check
i would rather trust google translate than your friends 😂
Raki mor shqipe Raki
@@noniss439 bruh nashta i kan than domethan good day a najsen xdd
Years and years of grammar lesson nightmares coming back at me right now. That is quite an impressive work you have done there mister! Greetings from an Albanian
As an Albanian that left Albania at 11 years old i have forgotten most of the grammatical rules and would definitely not be able to write an essay but i still speak fluently. This video is great, it reminds me of school up to the 6th grade. Good luck to anyone trying to learn the language because even for me it was hard to keep up with the rules but it’s not impossible to learn. The coolest language in the world. 🇦🇱🇦🇱
The spelling system of Albanian is so well designed that it’s easy to pronounce anything written. Albanians are so polite and hospitable that they warmly welcome any effort to speak their language and are really encouraging. My thoughts to all Albanians trying to cope with the terrible earthquake in Durres
Absolutely once you learn the alphabet you will be able to read without problems
Yep exactly, for example when you learn the letter "f" in English, you learn it as "ef" but you don't write it as such, in Albanian every letter pronunciation and writing is the same in words or phrases as it is when you learn it on the alphabet. The only thing that makes Albanian seem easy.
@Sam A3 It's way better the way it is, trust me. 99% of Albanians do not type those specific letters like "Ç" or "Ë" on the computer since noone can be bothered writing a code everytime they want to use them on a basic keyboard. Instead, replacing Ë with a simple E or not writing it at all (example: Mire or Mir instead of Mirë), and Ç replacing with C or simple Q (example: Ckemi or Qkemi instead of Çkemi). Having the entire alphabet in those type of letters would be a nightmare to work with on a computer. Writing on paper or a formal email is different, and you are required to use them.
@Sam A3 Well they say Polish names are great for Wifi passwords so, there's a plus lol.
@Sam A3 when designing orthography, I personally think more unique characters or even diacritics is better than digraphs. Hate digraphs, their elimination should be prioritized. Accessibility in the digital age is an interesting challenge though, like Arabic's use of numerals when typing romanized Arabic shorthand online.
Also in Croatia we have a small Albanian minority, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
@Kristian Pepaj We have respect for them. BUt if they start shit it will be over with that.
@@epicccurusaurelius2634 what kind of shit
@Ararune they did help but that was during ww2 when both sides were axis
@@epicccurusaurelius2634 Go get a life and do not spend your life believing in Serbian propaganda toward others. If Albos would believe what Serbs say about Croats, they would have never helped you in your fight for the liberation of your "Nasa Lijepa'. same with Bosniacs. Base your judgement on truth and facts and not Serbian media and their hate propaganda.
You have them a bit everywhere in the Balkans and Italy would say. I’ve met Albanians that migrated from the 14 century in Italy and we do understand each other, i’ve met Arberesh from Argentina and it was shocking for both of us, i’ve been to Turkey and i went to Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir to meet the Albanians and it was like being back home, we could understand each other. Meet Albanians from Serbia same story, from Macedonia Greece Montenegro Croatia same old story. It’s fascinating how my people are connected to their language and traditions…
Very comprehensive video. Love the intro😂
incredible and very informative. well done!
in Ukraine we also have Albanian community
We know 😉
A small community near Odessa right?
We Albanians are aware of that. Thanks though
@@figliodellestelle22 not so near but in Odessa Region, yes. there also many others minorities - bulgarians, moldovians (romanians), gagauzians
@Islander Local yes, they are refugees from muslim ottoman empire
I was born in Turkey and I am Albanian too.My parents and grandparents speak Albanian and I am learning it. 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Pershendetje nga Kosova! A je mirë :)
Why do you have a picture of a mass murderer as your profile picture?
@@laurantajvazi917 Because He is father of ALL THE TURKS coming from different ethnicities and religions. Mass murders you mentioned have been placed over hundred years whose victims are Bosnians, Turks and other Muslim people in Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Not only in Balkans and also in Azerbaijan lands by intruder Armenia.
SenfonikAnkara oh I wouldn’t mention Armenians if I were you. You probably didn’t learn it at school but, have you ever heard about the Armenian genocide? The one the turks committed?
@@laurantajvazi917 I think, in school you have learned that Kemal Atatürk is President of Turkey in 1915! 🤔 Check your knowledge.
Thank you. Very interesting. I have never heard Albanian before. It looks as the most complicated of the Indo-European languages, and I'm trilingual with additionally able to held a conversation in two more languages.
Me pelqeu shume kjo video, pershendetje nga shqiperia-i really liked this video,greetings from Albania
i was born and grew up in switzerland my parents always spoke albanian to me and i will do the same with my children
Bcuz ur albanian bruh
Hi, do you know the text/method for learning Albanian language which is explained in French ???? For me, in French is better because my husband who speaks Albanian and me speak in French😅 We live in Switzerland😅
Sameee haha
Please also teach your children the local language (DE,FR or IT). It's easier for all of us to live together if we can understand each other and unfortunately some immigrants to Switzerland chose to stay in their isolated communities. Teachers and neighbors will be grateful.
Bravo ju qoftë 👍👍👍
Where was this video when I was studying albanian? He literally gathered my 3 years of university in a 15 minutes video 👏🏻
Hello ! Jam kurioz pse e ke mesuar gjuhen shqipe ne universitet
Someone was thinking of your money, so they made it longer. :)
🤣💖🤣
@@jorgozaka2688 Because Universe must be Albanian or Albanian to be universal language for Greeks, Turks and Romans of Celtic origin
The problem is that... Everything after the letter explanation e.i The mood, pronunciation adjectives, noun, verb etc etc are forcefed down our gullets even after they have run out of their use in future lessons. Most of those lessons are enough for about middle school levels of teachings and not any higher of a degree. Because by then most students will not need to learn Albanian as if they're going to become an Albanian based teacher (Someone who teaches Albanian, or teaches Albanian students other languages), since it's not a requirement for any other direction except for well... Albanian based teachers
Thanks for taking the time to learn about our language!
Çkemi faleminderit që po flisni për gjuhën tonë!
Also, that Albanian guy sounded like you've just woke him up in the middle of the night and forced him to record those phrases.
Иван Говнов He was probably stressed af because there’s an earthquake
He’s depressed
Kokomiu Man dont be so pissed man he’s fine
Love your name bro
All soundbites of native speakers in his videos sound like that, not just those guys pronouncing Albanian words.
The Albanian Language is surely fascinating! Greetings from Greece!
@gg dd .... romanian aint "paleo balkanic language. Armenian is.
@gg dd dacian origin? But we dont have any clue about the dacian language...
@gg dd I know armenia isnt in the balkans but it counts together with Albanian and greek as the paleo balkanic group... because these 3 languages are isolated and old. Romanian is mostly latinized which is why u cant call it paleo balkanic... its a roman.language...
@@spemo1 we dont.know how much the balkan language influence each other... even if we have a lot of sources of the past, similarities are shown in nowa days Albanian with greek and romanian.
@gg dd But vocabulary doesnt change the structure of a language. Today romanian is a neo-latin language with rich - indeed- vocabulary.
Accurate and detailed video, nice one
Thank you sir for taking the time to inform others over us Albanians
I literally learnt more about my language here than in school.
noshta sepse nshkoll spot ha karin per msimet
bruh, same. shkolla ka me qen vari lesht sikur sa her
Ridiculous. We cant learn in this way. Is very difficult in this way.
Duhet te kesh bo shume mungesa ne shkolle
Si un qeke . Kjo shkolla te ca rakun 😂😂😂
I consider it the most interesting language. I listened a lot to native albanians speaking and i swear, it is so special that i can not compare it with any language! Fascinating.
you can compare it with gypsy dialect
@@jorham1 the dialect isn t a language. it s a dialect:) dialect of what language?
@@midnightdew romani language...its a puzzle of languages with hindi as a base...albanian is a puzzle with many italian recently imported words with a base ....?its unknown
@@jorham1 i didn t listen too much romani...but when i did, it never reminded me of albanian. this language intrigues me :p
jorham1 😂😂😂 says a serb, u clearly have issues with Albanians, but thats none of our business
thanks for making a video about our beautiful language. you gave an accurate explanation of both dialects and standard language. we are very proud or "na rritet hunda" or "ne hapemi shumë" as we say in Albanian when someone talk about our language, flag and culture. thanx though.
god bless all you people who shoe love towards us and everyone else thats what we need :) Ju Bekofte Zoti
Interesting. They definitely have the best flag.
Interesting, tell me about it. How do you see it?
@@Han_Solo6712 qe shiptari meniher hahah
Yes. I'am from Albania(Shqipëri)
Thank you
Poooo shume te bukur e kemi
I find Albanian to be fascinating in a certain way. I mean, as a Romanian native speaker, every time I happen to deal with Albanian language I feel like someone who has just woke up from a very realistic dream, still has glimpses and fragments of that dream in his mind and fight desperately to remember and to regain the logic of that nocturnal story.
hahah this was the most poetic comment I've ever heard from a foreigner about Albanian language, lol
I read that Romanian and Albanian have some cognates that neither shares with Latin. That leads some to think the Albanians might have lived in what we call Romania in ancient times.
tgemberl1 Wrong, Albanian did not live in Romania but Dacians which are the ancestors of Romanian and Illyrians which are the ancestors of Albanians used to have a lot of similarities in ancient times.
@@The.steppenWolf what I was suggesting is that they might have spoken the same language at one time. It is not particularly important to me whether the Albanians lived in Romania.
Son of Alba Actually, Dacians, as a distinctinctive branch of Thracians were "cousins" to Ilyrians. Too bad that Ilyrians themselves did not had any other close relatives. This makes Albanian to be the weird kid of the block and also our only hope to know better some aspects of the Romanian language.
So... My grandmother is albanian and I decided to learn the language... But holly mother, it is hard
My boyfriend speaks Albanian and currently lives there. It's honestly really funny whenever I ask him to teach me a new word, cause he finds it so adorable that I'm trying my hardest to learn, even if I'm learning small phrases.
As a southern Albanian I speak Tosk dialect, there are differences between the two dialects or expressions that we use in the south that are not used in the north but we can understand each other very well.
Hey
@@sealseal5516 fuck off
Geg has so many subdialect based on location, like shkodra speaks diferently to mirdita and puka, kuks, trropoj, tetove, dibra modhe, gjilan, kejt kosova(wich btw its impossible to learn for 80%of the foreign people) tosk is easier isnt it?😂
Wtf I eat everyday with vlonjats , I understood them since the first day
yeah it is a little hard to understand southern albanian dialect for me
Albanian is a good language and an Ancient one. I heard that it features similarities with the Thracian and the Illyrian languages. And as a Greek I like it it's fascinating. If you read the background of the Illyrians you will like it. 👌🇦🇱 Cheers from the Hellenic Republic 🇬🇷
Lately I have seen many Greeks and Albanians getting along peacefully and supporting each other. Makes me happy because Albanians and Greeks are the true Europeans. Indeed Albanian is Illyrian language very Similar to ancient Greek. Probably because we have the same Pelasgian ancestors 🇦🇱🇽🇰♥️🇬🇷
@@avitiusrufinus6980 Aye! 🇬🇷🇦🇱 👌
@@avitiusrufinus6980 No. Pelasgians have nothing in common with Greeks, Pelasgians spoke a language that was not Greek according to Herodotus.
@Deez Nuts Northern Europeans are known as Vikings also true Europeans. But we have to keep that in mind that they moved from illyria and ancient Greece and Roman empire to the north. So we are the same people but when you live so many years apart of course everything will change such as language for example.
@@doganayydn1832 really? I thought Pelasgians = Illyrians + Hellens
We are a beacon of light in a sea of Slavs
in a sea of brown skin slavs (servs)
The explanation is amazing 👏
I am Albanian and I moved to Greece when I was ten(3rd grade). Honestly, I speak Albanian on a daily basis and I'm now learning how challenging this beautiful language actually is. I am now proud of my mother tongue.
Bravo moj motër, mos i harro rrënjët
@@petrithysaj4529 bravo moter ja paska nis mi harru shikoja emrin nfillim pastaj mbas do viteve fmijt e ksaj harrojn se jan shqiptar
But don't forget the country that open the doors for thousands of Albanians here in Greece 🇬🇷👌🇦🇱
@Albanian Muslim Illyrian is it a joke?I don't think so
Δεν έκανες και κάτι σπουδαίο όπως έμαθες αγγλικά έμαθες και την μητρική σου. Σπουδαία γλώσσα είναι τα αρχαία ελληνικά, λατινικά οτιδήποτε δεν μπορείς να μάθεις εύκολα σε κάνει εξυπνότερα Να απαντήσω και στο φίλο εδώ, δεν ξεχνάμε ότι η Ελλάδα μας άνοιξε την πόρτα ειδικά εγώ που έχω υπηρετήσει ειδικές δυνάμεις στην Ελλάδα 31 χρόνια στην Ελλάδα. Πλέον, Έλληνας κάτοχος της ελληνικής ιθαγένειας.
Thanks to Albanian language , When I speak Spanish , English , and German , people say to me that I speak as a native speaker . I can speak and write 4 languages , but a lot of Albanians can speak a lot of languages , because our language helps us a lot .
I speak same 4 languages, I’m learning korean and you have no idea how helpful the Albanian language is.
@Fam Os very true! I was born in Kosovo but raised in America. I speak English, Albanian, and Spanish. To us it seems almost natural to speak multiple languages
@@Andy34_24 I speak 7 languages.
Stimmt, ich spreche 3 Sprachen und will aber so gerne mehr sprechen. Als ich etwas spanisch lernte hat mir die albanische Sprache sehr geholfen:)
My boyfriend was born and raised in Tirana, he speaks Albanian, English, Italian and Spanish, he also has this gift to understand many other languages.
Faliminderit per udhezimet me kujtove shkollen kam kujtime te bukura. Urime per vidion keshtu vazhdo je mei miri. Gjuha shqipe eshte dhe dote jet me e bukura indereropeu. Vijme nga kohet e vjetra ose me mir ilir pellazg dardan origjin. Ju pershendes nga zemra per vidion. 🙏🙏🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Thank you Jonathan Maranville fo your description
Some friends of mine are Albanian native speakers. I've always enjoyed the sound of the language, its fluidity and softness. It's fascinating to look behind the curtain and find something to rival the complexity of German, one of my native languages. Thank you.
Faleminderit
Omg!! This is amazing. Basque has 5 moods (indicative, conditional, potential, subjunctive and imperative) I had no idea Albanian had 6, optative and admirative are completely new to me. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Rita Hasa mmm, doesnt witk like that!
@@ritahasa3830 hahaha. Me ke shti me kesh se sa her e kom ni fjalen Bask, e kurre sme ka shku menja me lidh me fjalen tone bashke. Kush e di, nashta ka naj lidhje.
Mirë se të vish
Admirative was new to me too! It felt like if you knew Latin, you had a good conceptual framework for Albanian (at least, the parts that Paul talked about in this video) -- there's just a lot more.
Bask or Bashk(Together)
Yes I am from Albania 🙏 thankyou then you did this video Faleminderit 👍
Gjuha Shqipe është një nga gjuhët më të bukura në botë! 🌎 Albanian language is one of the beautiful language in the world! 🌎
I’m Kurdish, currently learning Albanian. Thank you.
nice but we dont want you so get outta here
So cool. Good luck my friend! Hope you come to visit one day.
MrMcBoomBoom O tqr ca ke
@@dexis476 ta qiva nonen turk mut
@@mrmcboomboom why you being so mean to him for?
When you realizd that Chinese language is easier than Albanian language...
喦燚䨻䨺龘龜
Jamal Idrez 😂😂😂 you could be right
That maybe true...those verbs are hard😅😅
Hahahhahaha fuck yes dude
Lol I’m Albanian and I totally agree
Paul your videos are superb. God bless you friend.
Thank you for the video! The native Albanian speakers in my family are gone, only stray words and anecdotes of being rare Albanian speakers in early 1900’s New York remain. My relatives came from a place in Italy where Albanian was spoken. Fascinating that the language and people were not assimilated. Our family recipes are also similar to Italian but also distinct. Do Italians put hard boiled egg in lasagne???
so you are of arbëresh origins
I think Albanian is a beautiful language.
yes it is a special language
And a difficult one.
Innate Nobility Awww! Thank you! 😊
I actually feel special
Its better when words are accompanied by some emotions..
I was considering learning Albanian because I think it sounds really beautiful and cool but after watching this video I'm having second thoughts lol, it seems very complicated. Much love from Sweden!
Är du hel svensk?
@@kingooobaba1634 Nej, jag är grek-svensk, vadå då?
Try to find an ALBANIAN friend in Sweden you will learn basic ALBANIAN in months believe me.Peace!
Start by basic words daily life words like food and remember dua lipa , dua mens want or love so lets say “I want coffe” UNË DUA KAFE (unë=i ; dua=want , and caffe = macchiato or coffe lol)
@@aviationfansalbania2332 Can someone help me learn albanian online via text messages or something? (I am supposed to be a native speaker of it but my mom didn't teach me, and now at 15 i rly wanna learn)
As a native speaker, I can say that this video has reached it’s goal. I agree that this is only scratching the surface of this beautiful language. There are many grammatical rules but we do not follow each and every single one in our daily talks. We’re “easy going” and use the part of grammar that we need to be understood by the other. So don’t be freaked out and stop learning it, but rather, take courage as many Albanians will understand what you’re trying to say even though your Albanian might still be “broken.” I was born and raised in Shkodër where Gheg dialect is spoken. I currently live in Durrës where standard Albanian is spoken. Understanding other dialects is not hard, but trying to imitate them can be hard and sounds very unnatural. The video is a well done! Rroftë gjuha shqipe! 🇦🇱 P.S.: if someone wants to do conversational Albanian w/ me, just reach out! Tung!
Our family speaks a combination of both (mainly because Durres is in Central Albania and has a influence of both dialects). The Tosk dialect is much more different than the Gheg dialect. The word vajze means girl. In Tosk:çupe, in Gheg:cuc. But the Tosk dialect is way more easier to understand and it is almost like the standard language.
My impression of Albanian is it looks incredibly difficult!
it is, my grade was A in English but C in Albanian. When we started to learn the English tenses I started to laugh because it was too easy.
illyricus1 yeah, English is kinda lazy since you just stick a pronoun and keep the verb identical and there you have it, while in Albanian the verb endings change all the time.
@@EdgeRatedR007 yeah but the most lazy part is that if you don't know the past tense you just put "did" in front and you're done.
@@illyricus1 You still have to modify the ends of the verbs to reflect the past tense. Most only needed to have -ed added, but then there's the irregular verbs like "do", and the ones that doesn't need to change form, just how they are said like "read", "reads",and "read". Hehe
Shaun Rambaran hahaha palo pidhin dhe mos fol
My mother was born in Gjirokaster and came to America when she was 8 years old. I remember visiting my grandparents and sitting in the living room listening to my mother speak with them in their native Tosk dialect....I was absolutely fascinated with that language. I only ever learned a few words and expressions, because there are so few speakers of Albanian in this country, but it will always be close to my heart.
Gjaku i shprishur brother check out Joe Dioguardis American senators life story on youtube. Great man forever To be remembered by all Albanians.
Thanks for doing this im from Albania 😊😊
An amazing and beautiful country
Thank you
@@ylliriaalbania326 Rralloji pak nderhyrjet se ngele ne KZhead o trap. Na nxive faqen me idiotesira. Analfabet.
I speak Gheg because Im from Kosovo, but we can understand the Tosk dialect pretty easily and vice versa.
Se jena vllazen more
Mos e rrej veten
Me t than te drejten, per mua qe jam nga elbasani esht pak ma e veshtir me e kuptu shqipen e Dardanise
Tosket skane nevoj me e msuar standardin se mbi 95% e standardit asht dialekti Tosk. Dmth, Gheget e mesojne Toskenishten, kurse Tosket nuk e mesojne Gegnishten. Per ata kam pa shum Shqiptar Tosk, qe e kane fshtire me i kuptua Gheget.
Romeo Hushi po se filmat edhe librat nuk i keni me dialekt të kosoves e ne i kemi me dialekt të shqipris krejt amo veq me njoni tjetrin nuk folim me dialekt të shqipris qato ju e keni ma t veshtir mi kuptu shqipen e dardanis
Paul. This is a most interesting video on the Albanian language. It’s isolation from its neighbours has made a uniquely isolate language indeed.
MultiSuperfluous it’s not isolated anymore
Hi I'm from Albania and I'm happy that people are getting to now our language. I'm gonna write this in Albanian: Përshëndetje unë jam nga Shqipëria dhe jam e lumtur që njerëzit po e njohin gjuhën tonë.
مرحبا بيك
Came here to find relation between this and ancient Albanian sign language
🙆♂️🙅♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️🙆♂️🤷♂️🙆♂️
My family is Albanian from Montenegro so we speak Gheg. I’m not fluent (I was as a child and then slowly lost it after going to school) but my older siblings are and they say Tosk can be nearly indecipherable depending on which region it’s from. Thank you for doing this video, I’ve never seen such a thorough breakdown of our language!
Adriana S Im from Montenegro as well, and Tosk can be understood by most ghegs. It’s a bit difficult when Tosks speak quickly, but generally speaking you can follow without too much effort. If you want to get used to the way Tosks speak, listen to the news. Helps you get informed and you’re learning at the same time. Or simply first just start speaking Albanian, once you get used to expressing yourself, you’ll see that your understanding of different dialects gets better. When you first learned English I’m sure understanding the Jamaican dialect was hard, but as you got used to the English language you could understand it.
Adriana S po pse duhet tja thuash ne anglisht ktyre ? Kur ktu po flasin per gjuhen shqipe Kur gjuha jon esht titulli temes se kpt pse 🙄
Adriana S i am also Malesor born and living here i understand tosk due to fact that i know standard albanian but as someone mentioned if i spoke with a tosk which i had opportunity i had it hard to understand him as he was using regional terms and talking really fast. I even struggle to understand the Kosovo dialect sometimes even with ulqinak we have it hard to understand them especially with the old ulqinaks(the ones who have been there for centuries) But those differences enrich us definitely Take care malesore i supposed you are malesore cus i know a lot of us are in Usa pra mos harroni se dallimet veç na pasunojne
@@xherisgremi2362 nuk fol shqip ajo prandaj
@@babajot1158 I was literally going to say the same. Do i thoja te njejten gje.
Man, this language are sooooo cool!, and original, i love it!!
Anderre Flammarion illirian is one of the oldest languages :)
@@eralatifi6608 Actually not. Talking about Albanian (not about Illyrian), Albanian is really interesting, especially the nice pronunciation ❤️
@@tzvetkov4784 Albanian language is Illyrian dude
@@arbers7271 It's not, not even proven, but recognizable very latin.
@@tzvetkov4784 Yes it is, it is proven world-wide
I speak both Gheg and Tosk dialects. I’m able to understand all the dialects in between. You can usually tell what town or village people are from by how they pronounce their words. This video is well made. However, I could definitely do a few corrections here and there throughout your video. I could teach you a few things if you wanted to learn a bit more about the Albanian language. It can get complex hahaha, but I like to think my explaining is good.
Shqipja eshte gjuha me e bukur ne tere boten . RRESPEKTE
Mentira, o português é melhor