Have you ever had a conversation with someone and they just couldn't understand you? If so, it's easy to lose confidence. You might even avoid speaking. When this happens, you might build insecurities about your pronunciation or your accent.
But is having a native accent really a necessary goal to have? One thing to understand is that there is not just one native accent. Even the UK has many different accents and some can be quite difficult to understand.
So, to be understood, you don't need a perfect native accent. What you want to aim for is something called intelligibility. This means how well you can be understood by different speakers of English.
