🇦🇱 Skanderly

Sources & Acknowledgements

Skanderly app and website (shqiptare.net)

The Skanderly course was created by us. The materials below were used as reference — to study teaching methods, verify grammatical forms and map topics to CEFR levels. All learning content — lessons, sentences, exercises — is original; nothing was copied.

Sources

  • Council of Europe — CEFR — the common level scale (A1–B2+), our reference for sequencing topics.
  • UCL SSEES — structure of a university Albanian course and level order.
  • Linda Mëniku & Héctor Campos — “Discovering Albanian I/II”, “Advancing in Albanian” (University of Wisconsin Press) — the main reference for grammar sequencing.
  • Peace Corps (public domain) — the practical, situational approach and everyday themes.
  • FSI — Foreign Service Institute (public domain) — phonetics and core paradigms.
  • Leonard Newmark — Albanian grammar — verification of grammatical forms and verb paradigms.
  • Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) — verification of word forms and participles.
  • Omniglot — overview of the alphabet and sounds.
  • Wikipedia — information on the Tosk dialect and pronunciation.
  • FSRS — the spaced-repetition algorithm.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who uses Skanderly, sends feedback and helps make the course better. 🦅

Special thanks for contributing to the project: