The accent of a person is one of the easiest and quickest way to determine where a person is from, so what is an accent and how is it different from a dialect?
An accent indicates so as to how people pronounce the foreign language or the speaker’s own language and dialect is a regional variety of language differentiated by features of vocabulary, grammar and as well as pronunciation.
English is a world language that is spoken by over 1.5 billion people, and there are more than 60 English speaking countries where the language is either the primary or official language.
Hence not having an accent is quite impossible, there are usually two English accents that most of the people are familiar with the first one would be General American or British Received pronunciation. If you are looking for Accent Training in Kolkata, Aiuto is the best place to improve your pronunciation and to reduce your MTI issues. They have the best accent reduction program in Kolkata.
General American
The r in their words is “rhotic” which means they emphasize in it by rolling it when they speak. 90 percent of what we hear or watch on the American television programs or movies is General American.
British Received Pronunciation
The British have several regional accents depending on the places, British Received Pronunciation is the accent of upper-class people who went to Universities, but it is only spoken by 5 percent of the population in the United know kingdom, the rest of them has their own respective local accents.
If someone were to travel within the interior of the towns and cities the accent that they speak with, would sound almost unrecognizable and hard to understand.
Cockney English being another accent in which most working-class speak in London.
In British Received Pronunciation the r is non Rhotic silent unless it is followed by a vowel.
For example
In words like car, near, jar, hear mere, merry.
R is silent(r is not pronounced)
R is pronounced in words like red, foreign, print as it is followed after a vowel.
Australian English
Australian English has some similarities with British English.
There are no r sounds after vowels
Words like “butter” become ‘budda”.
Shortening of words and adding a vowel in the end is very common in informal language.
Indian English
English language in India has undergone a certain change in terms of integration of different characteristics due to the interaction of several Indian languages and social behaviours with English language itself.
Compound formations through words like “staff members” is used more often.
The fact of the matter is there is no official Indian accent, the people who speak English language in different regions of the country are influenced by their own vernacular language.
Indians follow British English theoretically but when it comes to Pronunciation, there is a clear case of MTI( mother tongue influence).
Getting familiar with the accents of different countries proves to be quite helpful when it comes to giving a reply in a proper manner.
