Albanian A1 – Starter Level
Start Your Journey in Albanian!- Learn the basics: greetings, numbers, and simple sentences.
- Build confidence in everyday conversations.
- Perfect for travelers, beginners, and expats in Albania or Kosovo.
This C2-level course includes 80 academic hours, divided into 24 thematic lessons and 8 revision units. It is designed for learners who already possess a high command of the Albanian language and wish to achieve clarity, nuance, and linguistic flexibility across all contexts – academic, professional, and cultural.
Reading & Comprehension – advanced literary, scientific, and social texts
Speaking – argumentation, critical discussion, personal expression, and spontaneous interaction
Writing – essays, analyses, formal letters, cultural commentary, and structured reflections
Grammar Knowledge – advanced usage of noun phrases, nominalization, phraseology, and conjunctions
Duration: 80 academic hours
Format: Online or in-person in Berlin
Group size: 4–6 participants for an advanced and personalized experience
Analysis of texts by Camaj and Poradeci. Discussion on the portrayal of Albanians in literature (Azem Shkreli). Focus: adjective phrase structures and descriptive phraseology.
Texts on clean sources like solar, hydro, and geothermal energy. Writing about renewable alternatives. Focus: noun phrase order and terminology.
Texts from local and international sources on biodiversity and climate change. Comments on preservation and species protection. Focus: adverbial phraseology.
Readings on ancient Albanian cities and civilizations. Discussion on albanophilia and ruins. Focus: compound word spelling and verbal idioms.
Stories like “Besa e Kostandinit” and “Princess Argjiro.” Writing about mythological figures and cultural parallels. Focus: masculine plural forms and idioms with “ice.”
Information on rare plants and animals, such as the Albanian tulip. Writing a conservation project. Focus: feminine plural forms and idioms with “end.”
Texts about the benefits of chamomile, aloe vera, and walnut. Focus: modifier agreement and idioms with “nut.”
Texts on disability rights and inclusive education. Reflective writing. Focus: use of articles and idioms with “mud.”
Betrayal in society and media, and its causes. Focus: tense coordination and idioms with “face.”
Types and functions of humor. Emotional and social effects. Focus: infinitive verb forms and idioms with “grass.”
Discussions on transplants, 3D printing, and religion. Real-life stories and essays. Focus: coordinating conjunctions and idioms with “belly.”
Readings on cloning and genetic modification. Writing for and against scientific advancements. Focus: subordinating conjunctions and idioms with “tail.”
Readings on Mars and alien life. Focus: nominalization (I) and idioms with “eye.”
Gaming addiction, its impact on families, and social reflection. Focus: nominalization (II) and idioms with “lip.”
Bacteria, hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics. Focus: punctuation and idioms with “drum.”
AIDS, loneliness, and elderly care. Focus: elliptical sentence structures and idioms with “foot.”
Quotes by Einstein and stories about geniuses. Focus: paragraph structure and idioms with “heart.”
Discussion on iso-polyphony and cultural emotions. Media texts and lexical variants.
Texts on “Guva e Lepenicës” and artists like Idromeno and Kodra. Focus: synonymic phraseology.
Excerpts from Visar Zhiti and Pjetër Arbnori. Reflections on totalitarian life. Focus: antonymic phraseology.
Readings on parliament history and Kanun. Writing legal texts and guides. Focus: dual-structure idioms.
Linguistic challenges for immigrant children. Essays and tips on language preservation. Focus: three-part idioms.
Report-style texts on war and peace. Reflections on art and conflict. Focus: idioms with more than three elements.
Speeches and analyses of figures like Ismail Kadare. Writing biographies and summarizing key works. Focus: field-specific terminology and sentence-structured idioms.
