Was using database queries to retrieve Post Titles in some of my template files, but unfortunately it was returning the title in ALL languages including the QTranslate tags…

<!--:en-->Aberdeen<!--:--><!--:de-->Aberdeen<!--:--><!--:zh-->Aberdeen<!--:-->

So I made a function with regex to find the post title of the correct language and then remove the excess tags, placed in my functions.php file:

<?php
// Function to get correct QTranslate post title
function getTransText($text) {
  // regex using correct language
  $lang=qtrans_getLanguage();
  preg_match('/<!--:'.$lang.'-->(.*?)<!--:-->/', $text, $matches);

  // Returns correct version of Post Title
  return strip_tags($matches[0]);
}
?>

Then I could just get the correct language title using

<?php
echo getTransText($text);
?>

Let me know if you have a better/smarter/smaller way of doing the same thing!