Discovering Albanian 2

Learning Albanian through conversation

What you'll learn

Learn structures corresponding to Albanian A1, mid-beginner

Learn vocabulary corresponding to Albanian A1, mid-beginner

Practice listening comprehension skills for level A1, mid-beginner

Practice reading at level A1, mid-beginner

Requirements

You should have completed Discovering Albanian 1 or feel comfortable doing the Review Lessons which are open to the public.

Description

About seven million people speak Albanian as their native language. It is the official language of Albania and Kosovo as well as of some municipalities in Macedonia and Montenegro. It is also the first language for numerous minorities in other Balkan countries such as Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, even though some of these countries may not offi cially recognize these minorities as such. It is also spoken natively by different communities in southeastern Italy, all the way from Abruzzi to the island of Sicily. There is also a diaspora of Albanian speakers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, among other countries.In Albanian the language is called shqip [ʃcip], but until the fifteenth century it was known as Arbërisht or Arbnisht, which is still the name given to the dialects spoken in Italy.  Albanian belongs to the Indo- European family, where it forms a branch of its own. Although there is no agreement as to its origin, most scholars would claim today that it is a descendant of the Illyrian language. However, another group of scholars would support the claim that it is a descendant of Thracian, whileyet others would argue that it is related to Dacian.Albanian is a Balkan language, together with Greek, Romanian, Aromanian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian, among others. Albanian exhibits many of the Balkan Sprachbund properties, among them enclitic definite articles (where the defi nite article follows, rather than precedes, the noun) (Lesson 5), object reduplication (where the direct and the indirect objects may co- occur with the corresponding object clitic pronoun) (Lessons 11 and 13), dative and genitive merged into one case (Lessons 10 and 11), loss of the infinitive (Lesson 8), infi nitive clauses replaced by a subjunctive clause (Lesson 8), future tense originating from the equivalent of the verb ‘to want’ (Lesson 8), conditional formed with a future marker followed by an imperfect (Lesson 16). This course is the continuation of DISCOVERING ALBANIAN 1.  After 3 review lessons, we will cover Lessons 7, 8 and 9 of Discovering Albanian by Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos. By the end of the course the student will have achieved a mid-A1 level. This course will concentrate on three different tenses: namely, the Present Indicative, the Present Subjunctive and the Future Tense. We will also study Imperatives.  We will work on the syntax of definite and indefinite nouns in the singular and plural and we will expand on the forms of Class 1 and Class 2 adjectives.

Overview

Section 1: Review Lessons

Lecture 1 Review Lesson 1

Lecture 2 Review Lesson 2

Lecture 3 Review Lesson 3

Section 2: MËSIMI 7

Lecture 4 Mësimi 7A

Lecture 5 Mësimi 7B

Lecture 6 Mësimi 7C

Lecture 7 Mësimi 7D

Section 3: MËSIMI 8

Lecture 8 Mësimi 8A

Lecture 9 Mësimi 8B

Lecture 10 Mësimi 8C

Lecture 11 Mësimi 8D

Lecture 12 Mësimi 8E

Section 4: MËSIMI 9

Lecture 13 Mësimi 9A

Lecture 14 Mësimi 9B

Lecture 15 Mësimi 9C

Lecture 16 Mësimi 9D

Anyone who wants to learn Albanian or is planning to visit Albania or Kosovo.,Anyone interested in learning a beautiful less-studied language.