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.

Mississippi Delta, I guess you could call it

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 have no idea. I try to speak very clearly in English, so the Germans here can understand me, but at home, I tend to a more southern accent.

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 would guess that since I live in Thuringia, my German is like that of the people here.

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. )

People tend to think that Southern accents make you stupid. I don't know why.

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 like the accent from a particular town north of London, yes

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

none in particular, you can't help having a foreign accent when you're foreign.

Okay, that's it. 'Twas a short survey.


Aviendha
Excalibur's Mississippian
Druid's cute, dutiful, if pert, niece