All of us have personal ways of using a language, an accent put on a word, a way of phrasing a sentence, new uses for old words, or even making up new words. When a group of people all share a set of such traits, together they speak a dialect. Push the sampler button to hear a selection of English dialects. Push any of the nine buttons to hear one dialect at a time, whenever you like. Listen for the different vowel sounds people from all over the world use. For instance, the dialects of North Carolina may very greatly from the dialects of Scotland or Australia.