Hello Seddit! This is my first time ever posting to reddit, so please be lenient. Also let me know if this post is breaking any rules. While I have read the rules to posting, I am not sure if this will be breaking any of them.

First of all, a lot of posts I see here are in regards of people at first not being able to speak to woman but then they work past their anxiety and get comfortable with speaking to woman since they get used to failure. I am not saying that I am not as socially awkward as any of you, but my problem lies with my accent. Which now leads to something much more technical than just mentality (which is why I'm assuming this might be breaking the rules?) My accent is not a smooth accent that sounds sexy and clear (I'm Albanian and live in the UK btw) and most of my social problems come due to my accent. Since the more moments where someone doesn't understand me, the more I think about it and sometimes the worse it gets. I have spoken to a really close friend about it and he says it's 1/1000 that he doesn't understand what I have said. But add slight nervousness and my tongue just jumbles up everything 😅 Other than my accent, my general speech sucks. My English is definitely above average since I am in the midst of writing a story/book and critique site members rather enjoy my writing. Slightly off track, but yeah. And it also doesn't help that I have a monotone voice either, which makes me speak with a quiet/meek voice. The 'sorry, what?' is the killer ;-;

So, I have 3 barriers to communication. My accent, my voice and also my teeth (they're semi-okay, though I have white marks on my front teeth which is a really heavy blow to my self esteem)

I understand these are all technical issues that can be fixed with a degree of effort and the right method. I am still 17, so right now I don't have the money to fix up any of them. For my teeth, I have a way to fix that issue of mine. But what I couldn't find much about online was overcoming the barrier of my accent and voice. Basically speaking clearer.

I assume the solution is rather simple. For example, maybe getting singing or drama lessons to improve control over my voice and being able to speak clearer?

I really appreciate any helpful thoughts you have regarding this as it will be really useful. Since other than that, mental barriers are mostly up for me to overcome. If anything doesn't fit the rules and this is just me classed as just complaining or something. Please do let me know and I will delete the post.