fah-leh-min-DARE-it / thank you
Confirmation today that H will not need to show her face in Vegas at the end of June, so we’re solidifying our plans to head to Tirana for the most part of the summer. There will be a week or two in June where we will be in Paris but the plan is going to just be to keep our apartment in Tirana and fly in / out for the event.
Faleminderit is the Albanian word for “thank you.” Albanian is a tough language to learn — it doesn’t follow the logical sentence structure that English has (that pretty much all Romance and Germanic languages also follow) and it doesn’t have a lot of carryover words from the languages around it — but Albanians also love America so a lot of them speak at least enough English to make communications at least passable.
(Obviously that gets less when you get out of the big cities, lots of pointing and hand-signalling when I tried to get a snack driving out in the sticks of Albania.)
If you want to read more about last year’s time in Albania you can go here: https://dave.themeesons.com/category/albania-2024 or you can check the Albanian videos on the Season 1 playlist on Youtube. (We’ll see if that works I guess.)