Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

The Many LANGUAGES of Spain

Language, Dialect, or Accent?

If you’re from Boston, you might have trouble understanding someone from Alabama, just as someone from Tennessee might not understand what a New Yorker is saying. You’re hearing different accents, or ways of pronouncing words.

If you go to London, you’ll find that English people speak another dialect. Besides using accents, dialects often use completely different words to say the same thing (like the word jumper, which means “sweater” in England). Even so, people who speak different

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