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.
My Russian accent is a hybrid of the Moscow-Brooklyn Russian accent. My English accent is rather neutral although when I was younger it had a more European flavor it. I will pronounce some words very rarely with a Brooklyn accent.
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" ).
No. I am very meticulous and pronounce everything. Even things that should not be pronounced. Salmon is thus sal-mon.
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.
My German accent is apparently totally Northern. All my professors were either from Hamburg or Hannover. When I speak Spanish its pure Catalan though - again because my professors were all from Spain.
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. )
Nope. Brooklyn accent is not really frowned upon. Brooklyn Jewish accent is though.
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 ?
The way American English is spoken by Chinese and Russian men makes my ears cringe. With women its not so bad though.
6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?
Not to my knowledge.
Okay, that's it. 'Twas a short survey.
True.