What does an american accent sound like to a foreigner?

[Slimebeast]

Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:

Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:

In Sweden there is. "riks-svenska", meaning "national Swedish". People on Swedish TV and in the Stockholm area speak it.

....now is that an accent or a dialect?

And how big is Sweden?

I'd say dialect. But no one is calling it a dialect because it's the default.

What does it matter how big Sweden is? It's got many different regions.

There's a difference between dialects and accents. Most United States citizens speak in dialects that are similar enough to one another that they're hard to tell apart for native speakers, but almost every single region has its own accent that is completely dissimilar to many others.

It matters because getting a standardized dialect or accent is a lot harder with a larger population.

I dont really understand this.

Besides, in Sweden the words are used so that a "dialect" is a regional variant of pronouncing the language, while "accent" only applies to a foreigner pronouncing the language.