In its ninth printing, the Albanian Practical Dictionary is expanded and romanized to include 9,000 entries with simple pronunciation and basic grammatical information. Also includes a transliteration guide, a list of abbreviations, geographical names, and idiomatic expressions.
This entirely new dictionary with its 60,000 entries, its more than 110,000 references from nearly 60 various fields such as economy, politics, computer science, medicine, religion and sports, provides the user with a wide range of current usage -- from the formal to the colloquial. It also provides substantial coverage of American English, a full treatment of the basic English vocabulary, with a wealth of compounds and examples illustrating usage, including idioms and set phrases.
80/20 rule: with 20% of our dictionary we cover 80% of our needs.Most of us use around 2,000 words/year, and not more than 200 words/day.With this 3500-word dictionary you can easily satisfy any daily needs to communicate in Albanian. Albanian speaking people can use this dictionary as well, to find terms and words in English. American-Albanian families can use this as a tool to refresh their memory before they travel to Albania.The selection of Albanian words has been made based on the studies of the University Of Perugia (Italy), “Fjalori Drejtshkrimor i Gjuhës Shqipe†, and my own experience in teaching foreign languages at Tirana University (Albania), Worcester State College and Assumption College, in Worcester MA.
A basic word-to-word English to Albanian dictionary that includes reverse translation (Albanian to English) as well as a phrasebook. This volume also includes the Albanian alphabet with detailed pronunciation guide which includes the IPA values for each phoneme. The dictionary contains 1,000's of entries for each language set complete with synonyms for each entry. Plus many other extras.
This dictionary contains 6000 commonly used English idioms with their corresponding Albanian translation. Nearly 15,000 examples from specialised dictionaries, explanatory dictionaries, fiction and phrasebooks are used to illustrate the phrases.