The Trouble With Accents

Many students find different accents hard to understand but it is the same for native speakers too! If you live in America sometime people from Britain are incomprehensible and vice versa. This year's Academy Award winner, Meryl Streep, is particularly famous for learning languages and using different accents in her films. Below are two videos featuring the actress. In the first she plays the "accent" game on the Ellen Show and the second features clips from her many films. Can you hear the difference in the accents?