It's an accent when the sounds change, but the language itself stays the same. For example, in Boston, the sound of the letter "R" in some words is so subtle that is almost absent. In particular, "ar" just sounds like "ah." A native of Arlington, Massachusetts would say "In Aahlington, it's haahrd to paahk a caah." A native of Arlington, Virginia would say "In Arlington, it's hard to park a car." But the words, the grammar, and most of the vocabulary are the same. A "foreign accent" is often the result of a speaker using the same words and grammar as a native speaker, but using the vowel and consonant sounds of their native language. For example, the English "th" sound is unusual and hard for speakers of other languages. French speakers commonly substitute a letter that sounds to us like a "z." "Zee streets of Paris, zey are beautiful" instead of "The streets of Paris, they are beautiful." It's a dialect when the actual structure of the language changes a little, and when the change is large enough to interfere with mutual understanding. For example, a colleague of mine once said "That needs fixed." I would have said "that needs to be fixed." The colleague was from Pittsburgh, and that grammatical structure is common in "Pennsylvania Dutch" dialect. She pronounced "needs" the same way I do, she pronounced "fixed" the same way I do, but she puts the words together in a pattern that is not standard English.

Hi Raghad. “The short answer: - Accent refers to pronunciation. - Dialect refers to a whole group of language features, including pronunciation, but also differences in vocabulary, grammar, and how the language gets used.” Extracted from an article written by Cindy Blanco.

An accent is simply how one pronounces words—a style of pronunciation. A dialect includes not just pronunciations, but also one's general vocabulary and grammar.

An accent is simply how one pronounces words—a style of pronunciation. A dialect includes not just pronunciations, but also one's general vocabulary and grammar . A dialect is a form of a language spoken by a smaller group Someone's accent is a part of their dialect. In this way, sometimes someone's accent can show where they are from.

Hi Raghad, Typically, "accent" is the way people pronounce words that indicates that they are either speaking a language that is not their first language, or from a region within a country whose people speak the same language differently from people in another region of the country. As an example of this latter distinction, I'm from the Southeastern U.S., and my people speak English differently from the way people who are from the Northeastern U.S. speak it. Dialect can mean either different forms of the same language, or, similarly to what I wrote above, a particular accent of the same spoken language. I hope all this helps.