Some people seem to say that Russian does not have accents, or that they are indistinguishable. I've seen someone say they've never even heard of okanye and akanye. Is this something I really need to focus on, or can I just let it naturally happen. It seems like such a huge difference to me, е and я changing to и and so on. Learning things the "standard russian" dialect is the way to go I guess but... I just feel like I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with stress in words and vowel reduction. I can't trust the spelling of a word anymore for the pronunciation