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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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!
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)
@@tony232cool what are you smoking? Latin is a dead language because it was an artificial langue. Neither one of you know about Albanian langue. Albanian langue shows continuation since 6000 BC. All languages evolve and if Albanian langue was heavily influenced then it would have disappeared all together. Other languages borrow words from Albanian. It was published in science that Albanian is older than Hellenic and Armenian. Actually Hellenic is an Illyrian dialect and that’s why Greeks today don’t understand Hellenic.
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.
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 ❤😊😊
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.
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 ❤️
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!💖💖💖💖
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.
@Milot Gashi stop being a idiot.. Before your Brain farts and you start sharing incorrect info.. What exchange??? No such thing idiot.. More like ethnic cleansing done by Greece and serbia In the 18 and 19 century.. To be More specific the masacres of thousand and thousand of autochtonous Albanians of Chams In Greece and the same if not worse In serbia for the other autochtonous Albanians of Sandzhak of Nish. Totally wiped entire huge regions under the mask of wars etc. There was no exchange at all but rather ethnic cleansing and expulsion by force done by state military forces while killing hundreed of thousands of inocent civilians mostly babys children wimen old Men and everything In theyre path.. There is tons of world sources on all of this documented hideous crimes still waiting To be procesed.. Po ti qi robt e nanes More mut msoje historijen dhe mos fol palidhje per histori qe sdin gje..
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!
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.
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😅
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.
@@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…
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🤗🤗🤗
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!
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)
@@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.
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.
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.
all i got from that is: "To the none swimmer, Albania is an ocean that will drown you" with its ignorance, lies, deceptions, false preachings and trickery.
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
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 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.
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
@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.
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.
@@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
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.
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?😂
@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.
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?
Well Rome Empire (the heart of Italy) did occupy quite a lot of country and that also include Albania. I wouldn't be surprised if they have rome languages mixed in it.
Its super easy if you get the idea how it's organised and why. There are some specific set of rules and the entire language goes by those rules. Hm I would suggest you to interact with an Albanian as it would help you a lot to grasp it even faster. While learning the Albanian language the main question you will have to repeat to yourself is *WHY* as there is a reason and a rule behind everything. It's what I like to call a representative language which makes it even easier to learn as the words are connected to what they represent in terms of gender or/and number plural/singular. As soon as you understand this and start asking why, you will get to learn it in no time. I know you can do it 👍
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.
@@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
@@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?
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 🇦🇱🇽🇰♥️🇬🇷
@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.
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
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 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.
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.
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. 🇦🇱🇦🇱
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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)
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 .
@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
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.
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 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
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
My perception is that Italian language influenced Albanian during 1938/91939 when Mussolini invaded Albania. I hav been to Albania 2 times in the last 10 years, and they still watch Italian TV across the Otranto strait. They do not hold a grudge towards Italy. Since I speak italian well, I was able to speak easier in italian than English while I was in Albania.
@NyYankees1985 the Albanians that came to Italy were the Catholics that wanted to remain catholic after the Turkish took over Albania. So yeah, they are catholic.
@NyYankees1985 I do not know. @Francesco Tozzi Northern Albanians are mostly Catholic, as far as I know. Southern Albanians are mostly Muslims. I do not know which ones migrated to Italy.
O Moj Shqypni E Mjera Shqypni? Kush te ka qit me krye ne hi? Ti ke pas ken nje vash e rradhe, burrat e dheut te therrisnin nane. O vellezer qeveritare ktheni kokat dhe veshtroni Memen Shqiperi qe po shkaterroni, po e shkaterroni dhe spo mendoni per popullin qe dita dites po e varferoni dhe dekurajoni. Kafshate qe skaperdihet eshte or vlla injorance, kafshate qe te mbet ne fyt e te zen trishtimi.
I’m Albanian…. Learned Italian from tv cartoons when I was a kid, done French in school… till college… learned English …autodidactic way…. (Sad I didn’t learn German😢) …And I can say that every language is a treasure….. Anyway a really unique characteristic of Albanian language is “forma deshirore” which I find it very hard to express in Italian, French or English. I highly recommend/encourage anthropology or linguistics students and academics to give a try….
In English " Forma deshirore is very easy"- -- I wish i had.....I speak Italian and English. In English i have a college degree. They all have the moods Albanian has. Albanian is not a developed language. So gender of names, adjectives, numerous particles, irregular verbs make it hard for a foreigner to learn. But if you know Albanian you can learn all Indo-European languages with ease
@@lydhrabinojg9341 Is not for the meaning more that the way it sounds. "I wish i had" is translated: Do doja te kisha. Forma deshirore:Paça! So its not even close. In italian you will say:"Spero che tu cresca un grande uomo" that you cant transalate:Shpresoj qe te rritesh burre i madh. But it hits diffrent when you say:U RRITSH U BËFSH BURRË I MADH. Spero(mi auguro) che tu=i wish that-zevendesohet e gjitha me nje menyre te vecant foljeje.
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!!
@@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.
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.
Albanian sounds like a made up alien language from like Star trek or something lol. It's very fascinating though! Especially if it evolved from one of the extinct ancient balkan languages like Thracian or Illyrian.
Fun fact! Albanians can learn every language rlly quick cuz is not difficulef for us at all we talented as hell plus god blessed us with the prettyest language in balkan/world 🥰❤🖤🇦🇱
I did know Albanian existed and I like its phonetic, I love Albanian music its a great combination of Western and Eastern styles. After watching the video I got fascinated with its complexity, I think the more complex a language could be the more expressive it is.
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.
A truly unique language. As a speaker of ~4 IE languages from different branches, including my native Russian, I was surprised that I found almost no similar words which is usually the case with IE languages - feels like even Indo-Iranian languages are much closer to Slavic/Germanic/Romance than this one. Yeah, the structure is definetely Indo-European - inflections, genders, defined/indefined, no vowel harmony or agglutination or other non IE stuff. But the vocabulary looks like from another planet - feels like even Hungarian is more understandable, though non IE (maybe due to slavic and latin loanwords and more similar phonetics) Anyway, charmed by the uniqueness of it! Greetings to Albanian people, who preserved their language so well through the centuries))
@Ararune i dont know about southern slavs, but I do know that romanians have words from us. and I think some vocab like zemer-heart, zi-black, etc. probably predate ie migrations, so in that sense albanian has some pre-ie words, like the basques, who've been able to preserve all them. some have also entertained the theory that albanian is similar to etruscan. etruscan being non-ie, and from the near east. no one can prove it though.
@Ararune im not familiar with dalmatian croatian, but i wouldnt say we've had minimal contact. the word dalmatia is probably related to the Albanian word for sheep-or delme...I'm a catholic albanain from Montenegro, but my ancestors migrated south from Herzegovina in the 1400s. and as late 1200 there were albanian speakers in the mountains of coastal croatia, recorded by the italians. i would think that if there are any albanian words in southern slavic its would have to be in macedonian, and then montenegrin, bosnian, and croat, because macedonians/bulgars were the last one to migrate so less assimilation of Albanian speakers.
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. 🙏🙏🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
I speak the Gegë dialect, however I understand perfectly the Toskë dialect, of course they differ from each other (like all the dialects of other languages), but the base is the same, so it isn’t hard at all to understand! Also watching this video I understood how difficult might be for others to be fluent in Albanian! Loved this video! 👏🏻
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.
It's unusual, for sure. But I dunno, I just happen to see loads of words that resemble something Latin/Romance, Greek, Slavic or German every now and then. Probably 50% borrowings, 50% pie roots, but anyways, this helps a lot!
@@emielregisrohellecterzieff1074 yeah it's definitely not even close to the hardest languages, although very hard. I made this comment 2 years ago when I was 14, idk why I thought that.
@@Iscoileachme it does have a lot of borrowed words, but I don't think vocabulary is where it really gets hard, it's other stuff like for example grammar.
Lot of love from Romania to our albanian friends! I'm in love with this language. It sounds unique. I am also fascinated about the common substratum shared by our languages. Mä pälqen shum Sqip! ❤️❤️
@@chuckytehboy6168 are Albanians Ilyrians or Thracians? It would be hard for Thracian and Ilyrian to share words unless they were related. Ilyrians could have been some sort of Thracians. Otherwise Albanians are Thracians
@@aiurea1 Well languages have changed very much in time. There 2 explaintion What Albanian language is. Illyrian language have been devolped to new separate language its Albanian, becuase Albanians have Latin, Dacian, Thracian influnce, but Albanian language is more Illyrian. 2 is that Albanian language is mixture of Dacian, Illyrian and Thracian, Albanians is formed a new language.
Answer to your comment: I speak Ghegh dialect as I am from Kosovo and I do fully understand Tosk dialect without any difficulties. Is hard for me though to speak in Tosk dialect as is not natural. If i speak in Ghegh dialect though people in central and south Albania gonna have some challenge to understand me. My comment: In the beginning of the video you might think this is going to be a cheesy video about Albanian language. However he has freaking broken down our language in such a detail explanatory way and I feel I am sitting in Albanian literature class. Te lumte.
I’m from south Albania and speak Toske dialect, it took me just 2 week working with some guys from Kosovo, later on no one wold believe me when I said I’m from south Albania, lol 😂
Kur je shku ndeti nshipni per her tpar,kur e ke ba ni shok atje e kur ta ka ba IKIM ose te IKIM A ke than vetmeveti ooo qmu kajt nana ku u zateta nty um nxani beleja edhe e ke kthy kryt permas me kqyr kush na u flug edhe at ndjenjen nbark sikur kur hish nprovim pa pregadit hahahahahah E ke marr vesh hamamin tem nfillim qitash po jena msu
A land conquered multiple times, yet the language remained. The books and history were burned by the conquers as they tried to replace it with their own, but the language is hard to kill.
Ευχαριστούμε, δεν έχουμε να χωρίσουμε τίποτα , τα ήθη και τα έθιμα είναι πάνω κάτω ίδια με τής Ελλάδας. Ήμαστε καί θά παραμείνουμε η μόνοι αρχαίοι λαοί στα Βαλκάνια. Αρχαίοι Έλληνες κ Ιλλυριοί.
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???
Albanians are very modest and nice people. Albania and Albanian language are underrated. Paleo Balkan languages like Dacian, Thracian etc....are extinct. Illyrian (Albanian) is the only survived. Greetings from Bulgaria and thanks a lot for the video.:)
Im very happy youve actually met good albanians but ima just say that you shouldnt expect the same things from all of us bc some of us are straight up assholes
@@dyokangaroo per me l'invenzione del internet e la cosa più bella per noi albanesi siccome non esistono più le barriere fisiche. ...possiamo parlare e di creare dei nuovi collegamenti dopo 500 anni di isolamento tra di noi. ...DIO BENEDICA I ARBËRESH D'ITALIA. ...ARVANITAS DELLA GRECIA. ...ARNAUT DELLA TURCHIA. ...😀
Brother your grandmother is the link To your glorious roots remember that one day it will be clear. Be proud of your arvanitas heritage and you will find out your part of the roots of European ppl. Be well all the Best.
@@durimmiziraj4815 i ll tell to my grandmother to do me ,some lessons..my dentist calls Bitha,when i told it to my grandmother she replied to me . Shame on u Why grandmother (i told her) Bitha is the ass...lol i ve a dentist calling ass...haha
@@ArhivatorSrbija wtf what is ur problem little russian she did definitly not soeak aromanian and 1000000% she did not speak macedonian wtf. Why should she ?
@@ArhivatorSrbija "Nikollë Bojaxhiu (The Father of Mother Teresa) was born into a Kosovar Albanian family.[3][4][5][6][7] In 2003 Albanian scholar Aurel Plasari claimed that Nikollë Bojaxhiu could have been of Aromanian origin, mainly based on a document, found by Macedonian author Stojan Trencevski, which asserted that Mr. Bojaxhiu was, at some point, the representative of the Aromanian community of Skopje.[8] However this hypothesis has been rejected by scholar Albert Ramaj, who, based on the testimony of a contemporary, Lalush Lalevski, argues that the representative of the Aromanian community at the time, whose last name was Boiadjijev, was another person, and entirely unrelated to Nikollë Bojaxhiu.[9] Ramaj's position was later endorsed by scholars Ukshini and Xhufi.[10] Mother Teresa had said: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus"
@Taqifsha Nanen long? ahhahaha nobody knows anybody of these people. And kastriotes didnt save anybody. Ottomans conquered you as well. Not only conquered you. Turned you into muslims and their soldiers and colaborators
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 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
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 ?
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? :)
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)
@@tony232cool what are you smoking? Latin is a dead language because it was an artificial langue. Neither one of you know about Albanian langue. Albanian langue shows continuation since 6000 BC. All languages evolve and if Albanian langue was heavily influenced then it would have disappeared all together. Other languages borrow words from Albanian. It was published in science that Albanian is older than Hellenic and Armenian. Actually Hellenic is an Illyrian dialect and that’s why Greeks today don’t understand Hellenic.
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
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
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
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 🇦🇱 🦅 🇦🇱 🦅
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 🤟😎🤟
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
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
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.
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!💖💖💖💖
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
in Ukraine we also have Albanian community
We know 😉
A small community near Odessa right?
@@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
@Milot Gashi stop being a idiot.. Before your Brain farts and you start sharing incorrect info..
What exchange???
No such thing idiot..
More like ethnic cleansing done by Greece and serbia In the 18 and 19 century..
To be More specific the masacres of thousand and thousand of autochtonous Albanians of Chams In Greece and the same if not worse In serbia for the other autochtonous Albanians of Sandzhak of Nish.
Totally wiped entire huge regions under the mask of wars etc.
There was no exchange at all but rather ethnic cleansing and expulsion by force done by state military forces while killing hundreed of thousands of inocent civilians mostly babys children wimen old Men and everything In theyre path..
There is tons of world sources on all of this documented hideous crimes still waiting To be procesed..
Po ti qi robt e nanes More mut msoje historijen dhe mos fol palidhje per histori qe sdin gje..
As an Albanian language learner and a bachelor of Linguistics, I appreciate everything about this video. Faleminderit!
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
You have choosen the most depressed suicidal mood native albanian speaker I've ever heard on TH-cam 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 TH-cam (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
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
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.
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 👍👍👍
Thoughts and prayers for the people of Albania.
love from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇦🇱
Grazie❤
Graziee ❤️❤️🇮🇹🇦🇱🇽🇰♥️
Qifsha rropt❤
thanks man
😣😢😥 god bless fratelo
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…
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🤗🤗🤗
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
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
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?
Ancient, complex, and beautiful language.
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 😂😂
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🤦🏽♀️
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
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 🤝
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
all i got from that is: "To the none swimmer, Albania is an ocean that will drown you" with its ignorance, lies, deceptions, false preachings and trickery.
@@kalemegdan6566damn! Some albanian has done something terrible to you .... is it?
@@kalemegdan6566wild uralian spotted
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.
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
🤣💖🤣
@@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
Hahaha , nice one, shum bukur hahaha
Beautiful language. It sounds very ancient.
Because it is!
Greek
It's a mix of greek , latin serb and turkish do not all
@@Usera2324dfrealmost no serbian in it
@@Usera2324dfre😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
@@thelazywanderer_jt What about slavic languages, like Polish and Czech? Aren't they harder for English native speakers?
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
Aliens land on earth:start talking.
People:what?
Albanians:step aside we can understand them.
Albina Jeta 😁😂
HHAHAHAHAHA
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Albina Jeta 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱🖤🇦🇱
Faliminderit që po fol për gjuhën tonë! Përshëndetje nga kosova!
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
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.
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'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?
Well Rome Empire (the heart of Italy) did occupy quite a lot of country and that also include Albania. I wouldn't be surprised if they have rome languages mixed in it.
Im trying to learn albanian but its so hard all you ppl who speak albanian as a native are so lucky 😫😫😫
Marissa Levine in the beginning everything is hard
But when u learn it it’s easy 😂
Trust me im albanian
Thanks God I'm a native speaker
Era Shehu ti je shqiptare ja pse 😂
Its super easy if you get the idea how it's organised and why. There are some specific set of rules and the entire language goes by those rules. Hm I would suggest you to interact with an Albanian as it would help you a lot to grasp it even faster. While learning the Albanian language the main question you will have to repeat to yourself is *WHY* as there is a reason and a rule behind everything. It's what I like to call a representative language which makes it even easier to learn as the words are connected to what they represent in terms of gender or/and number plural/singular. As soon as you understand this and start asking why, you will get to learn it in no time. I know you can do it 👍
I was born and live in U.S. but my parents are from Albania, I have been learning for awhile and all I know is like 60% of the words (mostly basic).
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
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.
So... My grandmother is albanian and I decided to learn the language... But holly mother, it is hard
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
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?
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
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 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.
Wow man !?you need only 15 min to explain what my teacher done in 8 years
And we still could not get it for 15 years. It seemed too complicated
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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.
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. 🇦🇱🇦🇱
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
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 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.
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!
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)
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.
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.
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
Albanian is spoken also in Italy in the arbereshe community.
To a certain degree, Albanian vocabulary was influenced by Italian. Citta'-> qyteti, as an example.
@@ivanpelivan4487 maybe, my city is near at some towns of arebeshe origin (chieti, portocannone, campomarino)
My perception is that Italian language influenced Albanian during 1938/91939 when Mussolini invaded Albania. I hav been to Albania 2 times in the last 10 years, and they still watch Italian TV across the Otranto strait. They do not hold a grudge towards Italy. Since I speak italian well, I was able to speak easier in
italian than English while I was in Albania.
@NyYankees1985 the Albanians that came to Italy were the Catholics that wanted to remain catholic after the Turkish took over Albania. So yeah, they are catholic.
@NyYankees1985 I do not know. @Francesco Tozzi Northern Albanians are mostly Catholic, as far as I know. Southern Albanians are mostly Muslims. I do not know which ones migrated to Italy.
Gjuha jonë sa e ëmbël sa e mir
Sa e bukur sa e dlir!
O Moj Shqypni E Mjera Shqypni? Kush te ka qit me krye ne hi? Ti ke pas ken nje vash e rradhe, burrat e dheut te therrisnin nane. O vellezer qeveritare ktheni kokat dhe veshtroni Memen Shqiperi qe po shkaterroni, po e shkaterroni dhe spo mendoni per popullin qe dita dites po e varferoni dhe dekurajoni.
Kafshate qe skaperdihet eshte or vlla injorance, kafshate qe te mbet ne fyt e te zen trishtimi.
Labëria Ime. Dlirë! Sa e dlir!
Meqë flasim për gjuhën...
Me mir te thuash: "gjuha jonë sa e ëmbël sa e mir sa e bukur sa e vështir" 😂😂
Sa e ëmbël Gjuha shqipe 😂😂😂😂
Labëria Ime kenga nostalgjike 😢
I’m Albanian…. Learned Italian from tv cartoons when I was a kid, done French in school… till college… learned English …autodidactic way…. (Sad I didn’t learn German😢) …And I can say that every language is a treasure….. Anyway a really unique characteristic of Albanian language is “forma deshirore” which I find it very hard to express in Italian, French or English. I highly recommend/encourage anthropology or linguistics students and academics to give a try….
In English " Forma deshirore is very easy"- -- I wish i had.....I speak Italian and English. In English i have a college degree. They all have the moods Albanian has. Albanian is not a developed language. So gender of names, adjectives, numerous particles, irregular verbs make it hard for a foreigner to learn. But if you know Albanian you can learn all Indo-European languages with ease
@@lydhrabinojg9341 OK, so you could easy learn Slovene.
@@lydhrabinojg9341 Is not for the meaning more that the way it sounds.
"I wish i had" is translated: Do doja te kisha.
Forma deshirore:Paça!
So its not even close.
In italian you will say:"Spero che tu cresca un grande uomo"
that you cant transalate:Shpresoj qe te rritesh burre i madh.
But it hits diffrent when you say:U RRITSH U BËFSH BURRË I MADH.
Spero(mi auguro) che tu=i wish that-zevendesohet e gjitha me nje menyre te vecant foljeje.
JE SHQIPTAR? WOOOHOOOO
KEMI NJE SHQIPTAR KETU
Thank you so much for showing our beautiful language to other people in the world 🌎 ❤ 🇦🇱 Really appreciate this video 🥰
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)
I think the Albanian language has a classical feature. I suppose this language is complicated, but it's fascinating.
@Fafli Nah Albanian has many tenses and moods. That's why I believe that the language is classical.
I agree. I describe it that way to my wife and friends. I consistent my parents passing it onto me as a gift.
Kjo gjuhe mund te jet pak e veshtire per te tjeret
@@海野ナウタ well our language may be hard but there are still languages that are the same like Japanes with 3 alphabets katakana, hiragana and kanji
Pershendetjee nga Ukraina 🇺🇦😊❤️ une folim Shqip✌️
A je gjall hala
@@yllmujeci342 pode përshkak luftes
Po edhe un foli shqip. Pshto prej luftës!
Unë flas shqip jo unë flasim shqip
@@yllmujeci342 mduket se jo
the way you explain the language is amazing well done 👏
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
Albanian sounds like a made up alien language from like Star trek or something lol. It's very fascinating though! Especially if it evolved from one of the extinct ancient balkan languages like Thracian or Illyrian.
That is why other languages are fucking copied!😀 (tryna be positive)
Fun fact! Albanians can learn every language rlly quick cuz is not difficulef for us at all we talented as hell plus god blessed us with the prettyest language in balkan/world 🥰❤🖤🇦🇱
@@suejlezulbeari3644 ;since You are so talented You should be able to write english
without errors
@@ezzovonachalm7038 LOL :)
@@ezzovonachalm7038 ur just jealous ur trying to find the niddle in sahara 😊
I did know Albanian existed and I like its phonetic, I love Albanian music its a great combination of Western and Eastern styles. After watching the video I got fascinated with its complexity, I think the more complex a language could be the more expressive it is.
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.
Albanians?!
E di që nuk jam i vetmi⤵️
Veti mi means promise me i am Macedonian (ветувам, завет) not Albanian to vote
Jo, edhe une ketu jam
Qia ropt
Shqiptare kudo....💪😊💪🇦🇱
Sje jo.
I'm from Afghanistan, I had friends from Albania when I was at school.
Ok
Same but i am Albanian and i had friends From Afghanistan
Ok.
@@asena2180 imagine being turk
@@valtontony826 🇹🇷🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🇹🇷🤘🏻🐺🇹🇷🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🤘🏻🇹🇷🐺🇹🇷🤘🏻🐺😍🤘🏻🐺🇹🇷🤘🏻
A truly unique language. As a speaker of ~4 IE languages from different branches, including my native Russian, I was surprised that I found almost no similar words which is usually the case with IE languages - feels like even Indo-Iranian languages are much closer to Slavic/Germanic/Romance than this one.
Yeah, the structure is definetely Indo-European - inflections, genders, defined/indefined, no vowel harmony or agglutination or other non IE stuff. But the vocabulary looks like from another planet - feels like even Hungarian is more understandable, though non IE (maybe due to slavic and latin loanwords and more similar phonetics)
Anyway, charmed by the uniqueness of it! Greetings to Albanian people, who preserved their language so well through the centuries))
Lol vocabulary from another planet. As an Albanian it made me chuckle!
@Ararune i dont know about southern slavs, but I do know that romanians have words from us. and I think some vocab like zemer-heart, zi-black, etc. probably predate ie migrations, so in that sense albanian has some pre-ie words, like the basques, who've been able to preserve all them. some have also entertained the theory that albanian is similar to etruscan. etruscan being non-ie, and from the near east. no one can prove it though.
@Ararune im not familiar with dalmatian croatian, but i wouldnt say we've had minimal contact. the word dalmatia is probably related to the Albanian word for sheep-or delme...I'm a catholic albanain from Montenegro, but my ancestors migrated south from Herzegovina in the 1400s. and as late 1200 there were albanian speakers in the mountains of coastal croatia, recorded by the italians. i would think that if there are any albanian words in southern slavic its would have to be in macedonian, and then montenegrin, bosnian, and croat, because macedonians/bulgars were the last one to migrate so less assimilation of Albanian speakers.
Derë==dvjer==të vjerë=të vijë==të hysh brenda. Djem==djevoçki,--ruskij jazik. Udhë==udhitsa=ulica--sllav...
About 60% of the words in Albanian come from Latin, so you should be able to recognize some.
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. 🙏🙏🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
I'm not first
I'm not last
But when i see Langfocus
I click fast
Me too! 😉 Greetings from Bulgaria! 😘❤👍 🇧🇬
Ok
I speak the Gegë dialect, however I understand perfectly the Toskë dialect, of course they differ from each other (like all the dialects of other languages), but the base is the same, so it isn’t hard at all to understand! Also watching this video I understood how difficult might be for others to be fluent in Albanian!
Loved this video! 👏🏻
i speak the Toskë dialect and im litarly dying cuz my language is very hard to learn
O arta a je preh shkodre
I didn‘t understand 90% of this and it was still the most informing youtube I‘ve ever seen. So straight and to the point.
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.
It's unusual, for sure. But I dunno, I just happen to see loads of words that resemble something Latin/Romance, Greek, Slavic or German every now and then. Probably 50% borrowings, 50% pie roots, but anyways, this helps a lot!
Albanian doesn't come close in terms of difficulty to hungarian/finnish/estonian/
@@emielregisrohellecterzieff1074 yeah it's definitely not even close to the hardest languages, although very hard. I made this comment 2 years ago when I was 14, idk why I thought that.
@@Iscoileachme it does have a lot of borrowed words, but I don't think vocabulary is where it really gets hard, it's other stuff like for example grammar.
Lot of love from Romania to our albanian friends! I'm in love with this language. It sounds unique. I am also fascinated about the common substratum shared by our languages. Mä pälqen shum Sqip! ❤️❤️
So am I with Romanian. I wanna learn Romanian actually. Greetings from Albania my Dacian cousin.
Hey cousin, greetings to you
@@chuckytehboy6168 are Albanians Ilyrians or Thracians? It would be hard for Thracian and Ilyrian to share words unless they were related. Ilyrians could have been some sort of Thracians. Otherwise Albanians are Thracians
@@aiurea1 Well languages have changed very much in time. There 2 explaintion What Albanian language is. Illyrian language have been devolped to new separate language its Albanian, becuase Albanians have Latin, Dacian, Thracian influnce, but Albanian language is more Illyrian. 2 is that Albanian language is mixture of Dacian, Illyrian and Thracian, Albanians is formed a new language.
How about Romania exepting kososvo first
A wise albanian man once said : Pidhi rrum , ska t’pagum”
Nuk e ke iden sa kam qesh hahahahahaha
xD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lot hahahahahahaaaa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇦🇱❤️🇦🇱
@gogolizi haha
Answer to your comment: I speak Ghegh dialect as I am from Kosovo and I do fully understand Tosk dialect without any difficulties. Is hard for me though to speak in Tosk dialect as is not natural. If i speak in Ghegh dialect though people in central and south Albania gonna have some challenge to understand me.
My comment: In the beginning of the video you might think this is going to be a cheesy video about Albanian language.
However he has freaking broken down our language in such a detail explanatory way and I feel I am sitting in Albanian literature class.
Te lumte.
I’m from south Albania and speak Toske dialect, it took me just 2 week working with some guys from Kosovo, later on no one wold believe me when I said I’m from south Albania, lol 😂
Kur je shku ndeti nshipni per her tpar,kur e ke ba ni shok atje e kur ta ka ba IKIM ose te IKIM
A ke than vetmeveti ooo qmu kajt nana ku u zateta nty um nxani beleja edhe e ke kthy kryt permas me kqyr kush na u flug edhe at ndjenjen nbark sikur kur hish nprovim pa pregadit hahahahahah
E ke marr vesh hamamin tem nfillim qitash po jena msu
@@1234D-w2n Për fat të mirë s'jena krejt na alfabeta si ti mos mi kuptu njerzt e Shipnis.
Po ku tkom ej
@@1234D-w2n Shko bjer n’gjum, haver.
Thank Paul, the video is excellent. Well done and delivered! Impressive.
A land conquered multiple times, yet the language remained. The books and history were burned by the conquers as they tried to replace it with their own, but the language is hard to kill.
@Alban Leka nuk është e vërtet!
@Alban Leka thua ti copa e injorantit, topall si topalli!🤦♂️
Who cares
@@dltguitar6532 You're too cool for school.
@@Albanianator he truely is
Nice video and pretty rich language. Greetings from Athens, Greece.
Thankyou
@Zenel Gjoleka No, I am not. I am Greek, born in Switzerland, living in Athens, with parents' roots from southern Greece (Peloponnese)
In fact we are ancient cousins , but sometimes people fight even with their brothers it’s human nature beeing ...
Efxaristo 🙏🇦🇱🇬🇷
Ευχαριστούμε, δεν έχουμε να χωρίσουμε τίποτα , τα ήθη και τα έθιμα είναι πάνω κάτω ίδια με τής Ελλάδας. Ήμαστε καί θά παραμείνουμε η μόνοι αρχαίοι λαοί στα Βαλκάνια. Αρχαίοι Έλληνες κ Ιλλυριοί.
Isolate languages are so fascinating! It blows my mind that Albanian is unrelated to the languages spoken in neighboring countries.
It’s an Indo European language... so it is related to its neighboring languages
Hákon D It’s related, yes, but only by PIE. That is most likely the most recent ancestor language between Albanian and other IE languages.
Daniel Sugar Still, not unrelated
It is still related, just more distantly
@pitic grga44 yes, because they are both indo european.
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???
Albanians are very modest and nice people. Albania and Albanian language are underrated. Paleo Balkan languages like Dacian, Thracian etc....are extinct. Illyrian (Albanian) is the only survived. Greetings from Bulgaria and thanks a lot for the video.:)
excatly
Im very happy youve actually met good albanians but ima just say that you shouldnt expect the same things from all of us bc some of us are straight up assholes
Tell that to Serbs who still think we are some ottoman leftovers
You have forgoten Slovene.
Respect from Kosovo 🇽🇰🇦🇱 ❤️
In my city we speak Arbereshe but I can't write Arbereshe, sorry.
I hate heartquakes, love from italy.
Dukemi!
Sei calabrese o siciliano?
Ciao fratello di sangue 😀
@@marsi4409 molisano! 😁
@@you_and_tirana6056 ahahah ciao shok
@@dyokangaroo per me l'invenzione del internet e la cosa più bella per noi albanesi siccome non esistono più le barriere fisiche. ...possiamo parlare e di creare dei nuovi collegamenti dopo 500 anni di isolamento tra di noi. ...DIO BENEDICA I ARBËRESH D'ITALIA. ...ARVANITAS DELLA GRECIA. ...ARNAUT DELLA TURCHIA. ...😀
The albanian language sounds so sweet.....very beautiful.....
O zot i madh
SHUME TE FALEMINDERIT
FRANCESO CAIAFFA
Faleminderit! I especially loved the background information. Great lesson.
Okay ,my husband is Albanian,so I know just O zemra ,Te dua shum 😃🤣😋😍😍😍❤💘
👍
He called u a fat ass . Lol jk he said he loves u
Yeet-ur-nan .-. HAHAHAHHAHHA imagine if her man taught her “vari karin”
Where are you from ?
Rilind Krasniqi LMAO😂😂😂😂
One of my grandmother speaks the Arvanitika as we say it
Brother your grandmother is the link To your glorious roots remember that one day it will be clear.
Be proud of your arvanitas heritage and you will find out your part of the roots of European ppl.
Be well all the Best.
Arvanitika is a nice albanian dialect.
I often listen to Alekos Dimou songs.
@@mentor288 thx bro..hope u the best
Learn the language dude. Seriously...
@@durimmiziraj4815 i ll tell to my grandmother to do me ,some lessons..my dentist calls Bitha,when i told it to my grandmother she replied to me .
Shame on u
Why grandmother (i told her)
Bitha is the ass...lol i ve a dentist calling ass...haha
Fun fact: this was Mother Theresa's first language!
No. Her first language was Aromanian, 2nd Gheg Albanian and 3rd Macedonian
@@ArhivatorSrbija wtf what is ur problem little russian she did definitly not soeak aromanian and 1000000% she did not speak macedonian wtf. Why should she ?
@@ArhivatorSrbija "Nikollë Bojaxhiu (The Father of Mother Teresa) was born into a Kosovar Albanian family.[3][4][5][6][7] In 2003 Albanian scholar Aurel Plasari claimed that Nikollë Bojaxhiu could have been of Aromanian origin, mainly based on a document, found by Macedonian author Stojan Trencevski, which asserted that Mr. Bojaxhiu was, at some point, the representative of the Aromanian community of Skopje.[8] However this hypothesis has been rejected by scholar Albert Ramaj, who, based on the testimony of a contemporary, Lalush Lalevski, argues that the representative of the Aromanian community at the time, whose last name was Boiadjijev, was another person, and entirely unrelated to Nikollë Bojaxhiu.[9] Ramaj's position was later endorsed by scholars Ukshini and Xhufi.[10] Mother Teresa had said: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus"
her and belushi the hollywood albanian-american actor are the only know albanians to the world
@Taqifsha Nanen long? ahhahaha nobody knows anybody of these people. And kastriotes didnt save anybody. Ottomans conquered you as well. Not only conquered you. Turned you into muslims and their soldiers and colaborators
Çkemi faleminderit që po flisni për gjuhën tonë!