WHAT IS AN ACCENT AND TIPS HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH WITHOUT AN ACCENT

Abstract

An accent is a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class. So,your accent is the way you sound when you speak. Accents are an important part of our identity. An accent gives clues about who we are, and the community we belong to or wish to belong to. They're also important for those getting to grips with a new language.There are two different types of accents. One is a 'foreign' accent; this occurs when a person speaks one language using some of the rules or sounds of another one. For example, if a person has difficulties in pronunciation some of the sounds of a target language they're learning, they may substitute similar sounds that occur in their first language. This sounds wrong, or 'foreign', to native speakers of the language.

The other type of accent is simply the way a group of people speak their native language. This is determined by where they live and what social groups they belong to. People who live in close contact grow to share a way of speaking, or accent, which will differ from the way other groups in other places speak.