Legends. Not true. I was there, I heard the language, I spoke in Romanian to my Albanian colleagues and they spoke Albanian to me, I did not understand anything

Legends. Not true. I was there, I heard the language, I spoke in Romanian to my Albanian colleagues and they spoke Albanian to me, I did not understand anything even if the sounding is quite similar. I was in a restaurant in Tirana with colleagues and I had the impression that I am in Bucharest based on the noise around me, but I was not able to understand the words. That's all the similarity. There are some words that are the same in Albanian and Romanian, but very few. The languages are very different, Romanian is mostly based on Latin with Turkish, Slavonic and Polish influences (some Ukrainian also in Bucovina), the Dacian part is really small and the Albanian seems to be based on Illyrian dialects.