Category Archives: Albanian Translation

Albanian translation app for the iPhone

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I discovered yet another iPhone translation app, it’s only meant for Albanian - English translation and produces pretty satisfying results. It’s called iLanguage and allows the user to translate from Albanian to English and vice-versa quickly and easily. It would specially be helpful to business people and travelers.

Operating iLanguage is as the cliche goes ‘child’s play’, all you have to do is type in a phrase either in English or Albanian and hit enter to be presented with the translated version of the phrase in authentic lettering.
Other helpful features include a quickly searchable history of recent translations and no limits to how much one can translate at one go, whether it is one word or a whole paragraph. Check out http://arcticgerbil.com for more details.

Deciphering gender in Albanian language

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Conversations with Albanian language speakers can be quite confusing, especially for native English language speakers. I am not talking about people who don’t understand the language at all. Imagine a situation where an Albanian and an English speaker are bought together for interaction, here either the Albanian can speak/understand English, or the English speaker can speak/understand Albanian, both ways they are not fluent.

What I am trying to drive at are the difficulties that can arise between these two people because of the gender specific Albanian grammar which assigns a gender to everything and has no substitute for the English word “it”. So any given thing has to be either male or female, for example a book is called liber and is masculine while a notebook is called “fletore” and is feminine. This can produce confusion, as well some hilarious anecdotes. Consider a situation where the Albanian says “I have put her in the oven” referring to a specific food which is categorized feminine, the English speaker is going to be mightily stumped thinking whether a person is being referred. ;-)

The most useful word in Albanian language

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The professional Albanian translation experts registered with Tomedes are having a very busy life as lately we have been receiving many Albanian translation requests regularly. Keeping up with the ongoing Albanian translation spirit, I was killing some time by googling with search terms related to Albanian language when I came across a very helpful forum where there was a post about the most important Albanian word that foreigners should learn.

The word is “mire” and it means good.

Now in a typical Albanian conversation you will get loads of opportunity to use the word mire. Consider the following examples –

“How are you? “

“How do you find Albania?

“How have you been?”

All the above questions can simply be answered by the word “mire” or good. And I have just included a few questions from scores of possibilities. Additional tips – for “very good” say – “shume mire” or “goxha mire”.

Am developing an interest in the Albanian language :-) so you can expect more tips in the near future.

Albanian Translation – A few facts

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Recently I met a fellow translator, who has been working as a professional Albanian translator since many years. He illuminated me on a few important facts about the Albanian text translation requirements which might prove to be helpful for you dear readers.

Though Albanian is a native language of Albania and Kosovo, its speakers are spread throughout the world and there are as many as 3 million Albanian speakers living in North America and Europe alone. These people frequently require professional Albanian text translation services for example English to Albanian and Albanian to English translation. Furthermore, the worldwide population of Albanian speakers is almost 6 million which raises language translation demands up by several notches.

Albanian language has been significantly influenced by a variety of languages including Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Turkish. Its script has been derived from the Latin alphabet. Overall the language which belongs to the family of Indo-European languages is a distinct language by itself. All this goes towards making Albanian document translation a delicate and challenging process, so don’t opt for that automatic translation service which has garnered great reviews. It just cannot assure you an accurate and easily readable result.

Obviously I don’t need to tell you where you can find the best Albanian language translation deal. :-)