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Importance of Pronunciation and accent

What is accent? Accent is a particular way of pronouncing a word in a language. What is pronunciation? Pronunciation is a particular way of saying a word in a language. From the above definitions, you might be still in a perplexed state to know the exact difference between accent and pronunciation. Doesn’t worry we just said that you might and not even you may. So you may already know the difference between accent and pronunciation. Notwithstanding your knowledge we would like to shed some light on those fore mentioned words from our point of view. In general accent and pronunciation are a part of a dialect in a language. And an accent much focuses on emphasis of the syllables in a word. A syllable is a unit of vowel sound in a word. E.g.: The sound of the vowels ‘a’ and ‘e’ in water. What is dialect? Dialect is a particular way of speaking a language. It differs from region to region or even place to place. A dialect includes accent, pronuncia...