How do you think about accent? I am from China , I lived in USA and learned American English this year. Some of Americans told me I have a heave accent when I spoke English. I felt really sad for that. It is so tough for me to speak English like native speaker as a foreigner . I told my friend who was a native speaker about this,and he told me that I didn’t need to shamed of my accent, because there are many English accent in the world such as British accent, Australia accent,African accent . We couldn’t say which accent is better that other one. His words encouraged me .But I thought about it when I went back home, I thought that all these accent such as British accent, Australia accent,African accent , that means this is a real language in the world and many people use that just like dialect . But my accent only means I can’t speak English very well. So how do you think about accent ? The goal to learn one language for foreigners is that speaking like native speaker or just can communicate with local people. Which goal do you choose when you start to learn one language.