An accent is the way in which a language is pronounced. Everybody has an accent. It is the result of contact with different people at different times in our lives. A person’s accent depends on many factors, but can classified as regional or foreign.
A regional accent is determined by where the person lives 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. A foreign accent occurs when a person speaks one language using some of the rules or sounds of another language. Having an accent is natural for speakers of second or third languages.
