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S/o accents: do you sound like where you're from?
When you tell people where you're from, do they usually think your accent matches your home country/region or are they surprised?
I was born and raised in the Boston area but I do not have a Boston accent (I can try but it only fools people not from here). Often when I go to, say, California and tell people I'm from Boston they say something like "but you talk so...normal!" 
Re: S/o accents: do you sound like where you're from?
Me too! And I'm from New Orleans.
I have never had the classic Nawlins Yat drawl, if anything I sound more generic North American English speaker. But I still find it very interesting that most of the Aussies I have meet guess Canadian when trying to place my accent.
I've decided that they think I'm Canadian because Americans are deemed sort of loud and obnoxious here and I don't quite fit that profile so I must be Canadian, right? lol
Thats what I think. I hardly ever sound Southern. People around where I live always ask if I'm from up north.
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Half the time I get Canadian and the other half American. They probably just guess and really have no clue!
I don't think I sound like I'm from NY at all. My accent is quite subtle and I never had a think NY accent like the rest of my family does!
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Everyone can guess easily that I'm from midwest America. Once though I had someone mistake me for a South African and then was very surprised when I told him I was American.
I've lived all over America, so I have a fairly neutral accent as far as Americans go. Most Americans can't tell where I'm from (though I've met some linguists who can tell where I lived at what point in my life -- weird!).
Brits can usually pin me down to either American or Canadian, though a few times I've been asked if I'm Irish.
Yeah, upon finding out I'm from WMass, other Americans always ask, "but why don't you have a Boston accent?" Oh, I don't know, because I'm not from freakin' Boston? That's my inside (non-accented) voice.
I don't really have a distinctive accent (Boston/RI/New England), so I think I sound generically American.
A few people have said that they think I have a bit of a southern accent, but I think that's a stretch. I lived in VA for most of my adult life, but mostly DC/Northern VA where I don't think there's much of an accent, much less that I 'picked it up'. I guess it's possible, but I'd hardly say I'm up there with Paula Dean
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1000 x this. I think the reason I got my job is because my first boss thought I was Canadian.
My German accent is pretty good, so usually they just notice when I mess up with my grammar (stupid 3 genders for articles... grrr...). Then they tend to guess the Netherlands.
My theory is that it's somewhere between a German and an Anglo-Saxon accent, so at least they're guessing in the right linguistic direction. Or they guess Irish because of my name and the fact that my hair is strawberry blonde.
I don't think I have much of a Midwestern accent, although I do like to dangle my prepositions when speaking, which is a Midwestern thing (I've been told).
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I don't. In whatever language I speak, people always think I'm from somewhere else. I've had people tell me I sound mid-western in English, usually they say 'not from here' wherever I am, which is kinda funny.
In Dutch people often don't believe I'm even from the Amsterdam area and if they guess they usually say Leiden. That makes sense though, Leiden is fairly neutral in it's speach compared to Amsterdam and when I was in journalism school they pretty much tried to beat accents out of us.
Other languages I speak I'm pretty bad at, don't know too many words and such, but if they do a guess as to where I'm from, they 99 percent of the time guess wrong .
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Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DSometimes? I think I sound really American most of the time, but my accept kinda morphs so if I'm around people with a different accent for long enough, I start gravitating over. For example, if I'm around a lot of English people, non-English people might think I sound English. But that just makes English people laugh because they still think I sound American. *shrug*
The only time I sound Southern is when I'm in the South, though. I lost my (native) Southern accent about 5 minutes after moving. DH tells me he can still hear some Minnesota (where I lived 10+ years as an adult, but did not grow up) in my voice.