Why does the French language have accents?

Not only French, but other languages do as well. An accent basically has the function of changing the pronunciation of a word. It also might ( some of them) be used to make one word differ from another ( it become a totally different word, meaning wise then without it). read more

There are 5 French accents: the cédille Ç, the accent aigu é, the accent circonflexe â, ê, î, ô, û, the accent grave à, è, ù; and the accent tréma ë, ï, ü. Listen to the audio of the French accents and practice your pronunciation with our voice recognition tool, as well as going through other French lessons. read more

Broadly stated, your accent is the way you sound when you speak. There are two different kinds of accents. One is a 'foreign' accent; this occurs when a person speaks one language using some of the rules or sounds of another one. read more