How can it be?

I thought my fellow students/teachers might find this interesting. The local language we speak here is Albanian. In the Albanian language, there is just ONE word for both teaching and learning. When I was first learning the language, I went round and round with my tutor. How can this be? Teaching and Learning are two totally different concepts! When I hear people use the word for it now, I usually know whether they mean teach or learn by the context, but occasionally it is a bit ambigous and I am left wondering, "Did he say he is learning. . .or is he teaching?"

This was taken just around the corner from our apartment. This is a quite common sight-- a horse drawn trailer filled with wood for sale.