Albanian for beginners (low to mid A1)
What you'll learn
Basic communication in Albanian
Basic Albanian grammar
Vocabulary relevant to A1 once students complete up to Lesson 8
Training in Listening Comprehension
Requirements
Have completed the free course "Albanian for Beginners" in Udemy
Highly recommended: buy the book DISCOVERING ALBANIAN 1 by Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos
Description
Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo and it is a co-official language in Macedonia. In the Balkan region there are about 6 million speakers of Albanian and about 7.5 million speakers around the world. Albanian is considered a minority language in Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro. There are older forms of Albanian spoken in Greece and Italy as well. The opening of Albania in the 1990s to broader trading and diplomatic relations with other nations has created a need for better knowledge and understanding of this beautiful and old language and culture. Albania applied to access the EU in 2009 and accession talks started in 2020.This course, DISCOVERING ALBANIAN 1 - Part I, is an introduction to Standard Albanian. In this first part, we will study lessons 3-5 of the textbook DISCOVERING ALBANIAN 1 by Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos and published by the University of Wisconsin Press (ISBN 978-0299 25084). Lessons 1 and 2 can be studied for free in the course ALBANIAN FOR BEGINNERS by Héctor Campos here in Udemy. It is highly recommended that participants get hold of this book where all dialogs, vocabulary and grammar explained in the videos here in Udemy can be found. In this book you can also find additional exercises (with answers) to practice further all the grammatical points taught in the videos. Exercises from the workbook that accompanies that book are included with this course under the RESOURCES for Lesson 3A. To access the transcript for the Listening Comprehension texts found in this course, participants should get COLLOQUIAL ALBANIAN by the same authors and published by Routledge (ISBN 978-0-415-59796-8). Additional exercises for grammar, vocabulary and listening comprehension can also be found in this textbook.In the full course to be published here in Udemy you will learn to talk about school, work, vacations, travel, health, entertainment, movies, etc. After you´ve completed all the lessons in the book DISCOVERING ALBANIAN 1, you will have reached level B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The full course will be equivalent to one-year study at the college level.
Overview
Section 1: MËSIMI 3
Lecture 1 INTRODUCTION
Lecture 2 THE ALBANIAN ALPHABET
Lecture 3 MËSIMI 3A
Lecture 4 MËSIMI 3B
Lecture 5 MËSIMI 3C
Lecture 6 MËSIMI 3D
Lecture 7 Vocabulary for Lessons 3C and 3D
Lecture 8 LISTENING EXERCISE 1
Lecture 9 LISTENING EXERCISE 2
Lecture 10 READING COMPREHENSION
Section 2: MËSIMI 4
Lecture 11 MËSIMI 4A
Lecture 12 MËSIMI 4B
Lecture 13 VOCABULARY FOR LESSONS 4A and 4B
Lecture 14 REVIEW NUMBERS 1 - 100, PLURAL OF NOUNS
Lecture 15 MËSIMI 4C
Lecture 16 MËSIMI 4D
Lecture 17 VOCABULARY FOR LESSONS 4C AND 4D
Lecture 18 NUMBERS FROM 1 000 TO 10 000
Lecture 19 LISTENING AND SPEAKING EXERCISE 1
Lecture 20 LISTENING AND SPEAKING EXERCISE 2
Lecture 21 READING COMPREHENSION
Section 3: MËSIMI 5
Lecture 22 MËSIMI 5A
Lecture 23 MËSIMI 5B
Lecture 24 VOCABULARY FOR LESSONS 5A AND 5B
Lecture 25 MONTHS AND SEASONS OF THE YEAR
Lecture 26 MËSIMI 5C
Lecture 27 MËSIMI 5D
Lecture 28 VOCABULARY FOR LESSONS 5C AND 5D
Lecture 29 EXCLAMATIVE NOUN PHRASES
Lecture 30 LISTENING AND SPEAKING EXERCISE 1
Lecture 31 LISTENING AND SPEAKING EXERCISE 2
Lecture 32 READING COMPREHENSION
Anyone interested in learning Albanian,Absolute beginners who have completed the course ALBANIAN FOR BEGINNERS
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