What's the difference between a dialect & an accent?

Answer 1

Dialect is a separate derivative of a language based on a mother tongue and accent is the way you speak English (or whatever) from your native tongue.

Sicilians in many cases cannot understand many of the words that the Italians in Milan (or anywhere on the mainland) use. As it is a different dialect of the mother language. Their accent is how they inflect and incorporate their language into the speaking of another.

Answer 2

well in dictionary terms dialect is the choice of words and an accent is the way a person pronounces the words.. thats pretty much what it is.. u can have an american accent and a different dialect than another american.. I'd say almost all people have different dialects in one way r another..

Answer 3

An accent is the way the language sounds when spoken. A dialect is when the language is spoken a little bit differently usually meaning different words and things as such.

Answer 4

An accent is how the words are pronounced, a dialect has words which are different to those used in other areas.

Answer 5

A dialect is an offshoot of a language, such as Mandarin or Cantonese in China. Both are Chinese dialects but are very different from one another.

An accent is the audible effect of one language on another, such as when a person who grew up speaking Mandarin learns later in life to speak in American English.

Answer 6

A dialect is a local language. An accent is the tone or intonation one has while speaking the language.

Answer 7

Dialect is the choice of words,
Accent is the way a person pronounces the words.

You do realize that there is a dictionary on your computer?

Answer 8

dialect involves specific grammar, idiomatic expressions, vocabulary, etc and is often regional. Accent is merely how you pronounce words, inflection, dipthong, etc.