Only 5 percent of students learn Albanian in diaspora

The Albanian language teacher's work, in the diaspora, he has done voluntarily since 2004, when he first says he was engaged in an Albanian school in Bassano, before moving to Traviso.

Currently, 24 students attend the school where they are engaged, not the only one in this city. Cikaqi, however, is not satisfied with this number, for in spite of the increase in schools, young people who want to follow the supplementary teaching in Albanian is shrinking.

Just two years ago, he says he had 48 students. To reduce the number of students, he places some of his responsibility on some of his parents, who, he says, reason that bilingual is making their children difficult to develop.

In comparison to the number of our countrymen, who according to official statistics, citizens from Kosovo to Traviso are second with 10 percent, after Romanians, from the number of foreigners, the number of students who follow the supplementary lesson is very few or symbolic. Since we had 48 students two years ago, we have only 24. The guilty is always an orphan, it's hard to find, but I consider that in this respect the parents have no excuse. Some of them argue that the bilingual loses its success at school, but it must be realized that the supplementary teaching is not intended to replace Italian learning, but the completion of schooling”, Cikaqi says.

Radio Free Europe