In Albania you immediately see the words Hotel and Bar. Reading through two language or multi language information in hotels you find many more words look the same, with the letter c changed to k.
Some handy words include farmacia for pharmacy or chemist. Dentist is dentist, as I learned from an advertisement at the airport, confirmed later by other sources. I had wondered whether the ad was partly in English for the benefit of English speakers, but a check of Albanian words proved the word dentist spelled exactly the same is Albanian as well as English.
When driving and watching signs, we eventually worked out that the Albanian for (city) cente is qender.
Taksi is taxi.
limon is lemon.
Alphabetical list
Albanian - English
bar - bar
dentist - dentist
farmaci - pharmacy/chemist/drug store
hotel - hotel
limon - lemon
qender - center/centre
taksi - taxi
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English - Albanian
bar - bar
center/centre - qender
chemist/pharmacy - farmacia
dentist - dentist
Hotel - hotel
lemon - limon
taxi - taksi
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Albanian/Loan_words_for_English_speakers
https://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/User:Jukeboksi/Learning_Albanian#Loan_words_for_French_speakers
https://app.memrise.com/course/1054595/discovering-albanian/1/
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