Once you are speaking confidently in a language, and even as you are improving towards
speaking confidently, you should try hard to have reduced your foreign accent. This can make
you easier to understand, as well as making the listener more comfortable with speaking to you.
Having less of a strong accent has dramatically helped me to integrate better in foreign cultures.
As with other aspects of learning a language, it can be broken down and analysed.
Your accent is made up of many different components such as word stress, sentence intonation,rhythm, and even use of particular expressions. Even within a language, each dialect has its own accent and peculiarities.
The best thing you can do here is to find a native and to have them correct you in the mistakes that you are making, as well as correcting yourself by repeating phrases aloud after hearing them spoken by a native. Try to hear the musicality of the sentence as well as its pronunciations.
Thanks a lot for both of you. Your help is very much appreciated.