Albania

December 19, 2011


I want to first of all publish one last website for Afghanistan.  This latest journey to the world countries started when I realized how many "Occupy" sites there were.  So in the process of searching them down, I found this  for Afghanistan:


Occupy the Afghan Airwaves


and now for Albania

Map of Albania
Public Domain
wpclipart.com

Albanian flag
Public domain

Languages
I had a hard time finding language courses for Albanian, but in the meantime I did find the following regarding the language itself:
Albanian language, alphabets
And the following from UTexas, gives some background and basic pronunciation notes.
Albanian Online: Series Introduction
A couple of the usual websites also had at least initial language learning with in some cases also audio:
Albanian World
The above seems a bit unfinished, but does have lessons and provides pronunciation through written explanation.
The one below from the BBC, is from their Quick Fix series, primarily it is for basic phrases, enough to get around:
BBC - Languages - Quick Fix - Albanian
And I found this great site that does have many languages listed.  It is a commercial site, so I wasn't going to list it at first until I saw that they do have initial lessons for free:
Learn Albanian Free - Byki Language Learning Software Download
That's all I've got for languages for now.  Tomorrow I'll update you on the news sources.
And is Occupy here in Albania?   I found a facebook page, with 15 members listed.  The info is in Albanian, so you can give the translate bar a try, but generally it doesn't always translate well.
Occupy Albania - Facebook