1. What accent do you speak in when you speak your native language? Don't tell me you don't have one, because everyone has an accent, even if it's the "standard" accent for the language in question.

Mine's a mess. I've bits of Western New England left, a bit of southern and more than a bit of Canadian. It's not standard at all. The people locally don't notice much real 'accent' so much as personal idiosyncracies on some words.

2. Do you mispronounce words because of your accent? I'm not talking about simple variant pronunciation. I'm talking about the way people in Boston say the word "career" like "Korea" and "Korea" like "career" (or, for example, the way Billy Joel sings about "Brender & Eddie" in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" ).

I don't think so. Not much anyway.

3. Do you speak any other languages fluently enough to have a distinctive local accent in that language? For example, my Moscow accent, my friend's Parisian accent when he speaks French, etc.

Nope. Sadly I've never been much good with foreign languages.

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5. As long as we're speaking about accents, are there any foreign accents which, when you hear your native language spoken in, turn you on/sound pretty ?

Nothing that turns me on. I find Russian and German accents kind of cool though. And some (the more cultured) Aussie accents as well.

6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?

I don't know about awful but some make it very hard to understand. My hearing's slightly out (too much gunfire over the years) particularly in my right ear and I often have trouble with characters and people who have accents - particularly in films. It's not as bad in person but it's noticable.



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