Some accents are funny. People with country accents are slow to understand. Some accents make people sound thick. Older people care more about the way you speak than young people do. You can tell some people are street-wise by the way they talk.
Some accents are better than others.
Skills Read this passage carefully. Accent This is the term used to describe the way people pronounce words. Most British people English speakers have a regional accent. The place they live influences the sound of their words. Dialects belong to particular places and are usually spoken with the accent of the same area.