When you speak English in your home country, do you imitate the foreign accent?

I dont imitate foreign accent just using local accent. If try speaking english like British or American, people will laugh seriously. Anyway because that when i skype with someone from Canada, British and America i have hard time to understand their speak. So the solution i love forum and messaging than speaking.

I just speak English with normal accent. Normal meaning how the words naturally come out from me without having to make the extra effort of imitating foreign accents. I can try to imitate an accent and that actually has been a hobby of mine growing up. Of course I still sound fake.LOL But that was fun.^_^

In normal conversations with real people, Im not conscious of how I speak English. I mean there are words in the English language that native English speakers cut short. I think I also trim those common words when speaking. I only make an effort in trying to sound with a foreign accent when I absolutely need to like in Oral Communications class, or some related classes. In those classes, the more genuine you sound, the higher your grade.

With accents or not, as long as the person is comfortable, confident, and understandable with how he/she speaks, then the accents wouldn't matter much.
That's just what I think anyways.

we do the american accent because we are use to it. i grew surround by alot of phil-ams and and pure americans that i eventually picked it up and made it my accent. its nothing to show off, its just the way i was use to in my case. we do use english at home 80% of the time.

Yes, I am always trying to imitate the foreign accent when speaking English.

From where I stand, imitating the foreign accent is the first step on the road to success for people whose mother tougue is not English. In fact, usually, I just regard imitating the accent as doing something for fun.

Here, in my country, both teachers and classmates encourage us to speak English following the foreign accent. If one can speak English same to foreigners, he/she will gain volumes of praise.

I think it is wrong to speak English just using the local accent.

I was taught English by a British lady who stayed back in India. She had a tough time in our school teaching us English, as our mother tongue Malayalam has no connection with English. But I'm still thankful to her for being strict with us. The English which I can speak and write is what she taught. As we don't use English in day to day life, in communication, my accent may have a touch of my mother tongue.

Hi manong!

Here at home the language we use is Filipino/Tagalog and we seldom speak English in our daily conversations. Unless my relatives from the states visits. When I was younger I like to mimic foreign announcers and speak the language as if I was from the U.S. or U.K. My sister once told me that every time I speak English I sounded british and she thinks I like the British accent where in fact I'm not trying to speak that way. Its funny.

Nio. I dont. I am an indian and I speak englsih well. I don't think I have any disability in speaking in English fluently and speak it proudly. And an accent is the originality of language of a person so I speak in my own accent coz my accent says what and from where I am and I am not shy of what I am so I don't imitate foreign accent

When i speak english i don't try to imitate american accent. It's just that it's hard to actually imitate the accent. What we have mostly in our country is just the neutral english accent. For foreigners to be able to understand our english we have to speak slowly.

same like u my mother is not english as well,but i do speak english.a person looks gud doing a specific thing if he has the natural abiity to do it.trying to speak english in british or american accent cannot make him sound any better.at the end u should be able to make the person with whom ur talking to understand what u r sayin.i have seen people around trying to speak in other accent,they think they r lookin cool but they dont.why not to speak with ur natural habit,why do people copy other.well the britshers and american dont copy us in any ways so y do we copy them.people speaking with their natural accent sound more gud.at the end speaking in any way does not make a person different from what he actually is.

I have been accustomed to American and British accents as my parents used to work in an international school in Saudi. A lot of students and teachers were American or British, and many were also Canadian.

When I speak English, I think I adapt the American accent more, given the fact that I went to school in an academy where we were taught not to speak English in our native accent. If I do, it tends to sound "sing-songy". I also use the American accent at work as many of students are kids. When we talk in English with our native accent, the kids easily follow it and it sounds funny and not nice at all.