So...here are some questions:

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.
Fairly similar to Recieved Pronounciation British English: (phonemically, I have an almost the same structure, though quite a few phonemes, in particular vowels, are realised slightly differently).
If you are familiar with the English spoken in central-southern England now, it will be close to that; I don't have glottal stops.

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" ).
"career" and "Korea" are homophones to me. I assume that is just because my accent lost postvocalic r's. In the non-rhotic parts of the UK I think you would have trouble finding someone who didn't pronounce them as homophones.

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.
I have a lot of relatives in Bavaria, so my German is a mixture of Upper Bavarian and Standard German.

4. Are any of your accents "looked down" upon? (For example, Cockney or similar accents in England, Algerian accents in French, Caucasus accents in Russian, Long Island accents in American English, etc., etc., etc. )
Bavarian is certainly looked down upon. I find it interesting; there are some nice grammatical differences, and some interesting historical aspects.

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 ?
I find most accents more interesting than my own, just in virtue of being something that I don't hear every day. I like the New Zealand English accent a lot though.

6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?
I can't think of any. I find most foreign accents interesting more than anything else.



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