The Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary is an example what a serious lexicographer can achieve when he puts all his knowledge and energy in his work.

The features of the dictionary:

- it covers indeed very large vocabullary and gives almost-complete coverage of the language
- makes extensive use of grammar, stylistic etc. notes
- there is plenty idioms, examples of use, colloquial and slang expressions
- for many words it lists not only the dictionary form, but derived forms as well if they cannot be easily figured from the dictionary form(which occurs in Albanian quite frequently)
- there is a sketch of Albanian grammar in the beginning of the dictionary
- it contains also a "back dictionary" which lists all possible two(sometimes three) letter combinations that can occur at the end of Albanian words and gives for them grammatical values that these letters can represent(eg. masculine definite accusative-nominative or 2nd person of present tense etc.)
- there is a list which lists orthographical and phonetical pecularities of non-Standard Albanian and their equivalents in the Standard Albanian. Many words deemed "non-Standard" are included into the dictionary.

Although I am a real beginner in Albanian and some days ago I litteraly didn't know a single word of this language, yet with the help of this dictionary I was able to find out the sense of several short poems in Albanian!

How can it buy a person from Macedonia Leonard Newmark's Dictionary. How can we pay it. E-mail:Sali-f117@usa.net

The book is very helpful indeed, especially if you're learning alone. All grammatic points are well explained. From a short introduction on the history of the language till complex grammar structures. The use of the International Phonetic Alphabet helps a lot in the pronounciation (if you don't have acces to a native speaker). It's topics are not boring as many grammar books are, and although it is written in a very academical way, you'll be delighted to learn with the help of a direct, communicative and fun methodology.