How do I pronounce Albanian and practise my accent?

Albanian pronunciation looks harder than it is, because spelling tells you how to say every word once you know each letter's sound. The sounds worth spending early time on are the vowel ë, the letters ç and c (the "ch" and "ts" sounds), the pair q and gj (soft, palatal sounds with no exact English match), and the rolled rr.

The most reliable way to get these right is to hear them and imitate, then get feedback. Listening to spoken Albanian trains your ear for rhythm and stress, and Shqipify's YouTube lessons are a free place to start.

To correct your accent, though, you need a person who can hear you and point out what to adjust. That is what 1:1 tutoring with a native speaker is for — a tutor hears the slips you miss and helps you fix them early.