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541 Albanian Verbs (Albanian Edition)

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This book is a must-have for anyone studying Albanian. I highly recommend the combo of Roza Stefanllari's verb book and Ilo Stefanllari's dictionary.

The book of 541 Albanian verbs includes an introduction with all the conjugation patterns for the four main types of Albanian verbs -- the "-oj verbs," the regular consonant verbs, the vowel verbs, and the reflexive/passive verbs. The next section covers all the moods and tenses of Albanian verbs and provides English examples. The bulk of the book provides one page for each of the 541 most common Albanian verbs, fully conjugated. There are several indexes and a list of 1100 other verbs to help you find the correct congugation pattern for them.

The last section of the book provides a very practical phrasebook and concise dictionary of common Albanian words and phrases -- in both Albanian and English.

Well written, and definitely a helpful reference book! The author was my language tutor for some time, and I know from personal experience that she is a master of her own language. I wish this book had been published several years ago, but I'm quite thankful to own it now! It's great to have the many tables of conjugated verbs (which can be difficult to learn), and I especially love the popluar expressions and proverbs she included at the end.

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I have the 541 Albanian verbs book. It is OK but in the meantime I have found something infinitely better.

It is entitled Albanian verbs: the art of conjugation.

The authors, Batjar and Sokol Bega have done an amazing job in adding to the few resources available for English-speakers to learn Albanian. They have written ( and now in 2007, revised) their text Let's learn Albanian which, for my money, is the main thing one needs to buy if you want to learn standard Albanianl. Well, really, you should buy the Leonard Newmark Albanian-English dictionary, this verb book and the textbook and you will be well on your way. The textbook also has an accompanying CD with recordings for every one of the 52 lessons, key to all the exercises, a summary of all the grammar, a small dictionary, and, amazingly, a frequency list of the 800+ most frequently used Albanian words. This last item is invaluable for the student since it shows you what words to concentrate on.

The verb book has a very good explanation with lots of examples of why Albanian has all these different verb forms and exactly how they correspond to English expression. In addition, the verb lists have specific information as to which patterns they fall into something which the 541 book lacks. How are you supposed to know how to conjugate and use a verb if that information is not given?

These two books are obtainable from shtepiaelibrit ( Google it for details). I have just begun to order from them and am very happy with their service. Unfortunately, these books are not available in the US or from Amazon which is too bad since they are the very best ones to learn Albanian that I have found.

Most of us interested in studying Albanian know full well how hard it can be to find good, modern Albanian study materials. Its about time that someone produced a 500+ verb conjugation dictionary for Albanian. But this book could have been better contrived, and it isn't very intuitive to use. Why did the authors not include an English verb index with page numbers? You know, Rozetta (the author)...AN INDEX...every '501 verb' book has one! It's not rocket science. 99.9% of those buying this book are non-native speakers looking to learn Albanian, yet if you want to look up a verb, there is no way to know what page the verb is on, unless you already know the Albanian...and you just wonder why this has to be. For example...you want to look up 'to eat'. The mini phrase guide in the back doesn't have 'to eat'. OK, let's try the index in the back. But all the verbs are only in Albanian! I don't know how to say 'to eat', so how do I find it?!?! So that list is useless. My only other option is to comb over the 600 some-odd pages of the book till I stumble into it, or I need to look it up in dictionary first before I can find it in the book...Is that not an asinine waste of time? (Maybe she wants us to buy her husband's lame dictionary). Rozeta: it would have only taken a few extra pages to include an english page number index. Language learning is a time-intensive project, and we always look for ways to make it more efficient. This book doesn't provide that. As such, I haven't used it too often. Hopefully '501' will come out with an Albanian verb book (501 books are very easy to use), or I'll look for software. In the meantime this is all we got, for better or worse.

Really comprehensive and very well organised. The first one of its kind, I believe. Useful manual for beginners or advanced learners!

This is a very good book with the conjugation of the more important albanian verbs. They are put in order and it is easy to consult them.