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goobster  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 19, 2016

I'm just itching to hear more! Everything! About walking the streets... the buildings... the people...

Albanian? Wow. That is dedication. I'd suggest Serbo-Croat is far more useful. With Serbo-Croat you can fumble along with every Slavic tongue from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea.

But Albanian? You will never speak it well enough to be understood by an Albanian, and nobody else speaks it.

I had a similar problem with Hungarian. I went all-in on it and learned how to speak it. But there are so few non-Hungarians who speak it, that Hungarians can't generally understand my accent. They understand native-speakers of the language, but if you pronounce one vowel wrong, or mis-conjugate a word, they are baffled. Because everyone they have ever encountered speaks perfect Hungarian. (Although I was able to speak in Hungarian to non-native Hungarian speakers, because we all made the same mistakes!)

Anyway, I look forward to hearing more, if and when you are ready.