English Accents

English Accents

English accent is an important element of English lesson for English learners. An accent shows somebody’s identity where he or she comes from. Alike Indonesian, native speakers also have different style of speaking their own language. In speaking English, there are many speech variations of language even in English. English has two common accents for English learners in speaking English; there are American and British accent. As we know that both American and British accent actually have many differences of speaking style.

A film titled Harry Potter with many series in it is one of British accent film. The main characters on it like Daniel Radcliff, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson speak English using British accent. Meanwhile a film titled Civil War is one of American accent film; almost all of the characters like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Junior in it speak American accent in speaking English. English accents play important roles in speaking English. In order that, they need to be distinguished because each accent has its own pronunciation, idioms, vocabularies, structure, etc. We can see that both American and British accent need to be learned by English learners and how they use and differentiate the accents in speaking English.