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.

I'm Norwegian and I speak with an Oslo dialect. Eastern Oslo dialect actually. I guess you could call the Oslo way of speaking "standard" but it's not really. People have generally stopped hiding their way of speaking now. WHich is good.

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" ).

Not that I know of.

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 speak English with a British accent. But if I spend a lot of time with Americans I tend to drift over to their way of pronouncing certain things. And sometimes I do anyway cause it's easier to pronounce than the British one.

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. )

Just a couple but that's because they don't sound good, not because they're socically "low". Vestfold and Hedmark dialects mostly perhaps. If I remember correctly.

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 ?

Not that I can think of. English doesn't make Norwegian sound good at all and neither does Asian languages. But that's about the only ones I've heard..

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

See above.

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

And very good I must say!