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.
Average East Coast accent, no particularly noticable nuances. (I'm not from Bahston 
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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 say 'mittens' sort of de-emphasizing the t's... Facinating, I know.
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.
No, no, no, no, no.
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. )
If so, nobody's told me.
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 have a teacher who as born in Beligium and speaks about 7 languages fluently. Her English accent is gorgeous.
6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?
Hebrew doesn't really flatter English.
She is the first to fall
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.
We fight here in her name
She will not die in vain.
She will not be betrayed.
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