Accents of English outside UK and USA

Our project is aimed to tell about different accents of English, especially about Australian and New Zeland English and to show the differences between them. We intend to explain how Australian and New Zeland sounds are produced and to show how it influences the meaning of words and expressions and cause misunderstanding. To begin with we should realize what the term “accent” is. For example Peter Roach writes in his “Little encyclopedia of phonetics”: