Do you have an accent?

I don't have one in America, but when I went to Australia they did peg me for an American. But of course, then we're talking about different countries and continents, which is different than just state to state. : )

At least someone is here who is telling me she doesn't have a accent. Thank you Ambie, because everyone is saying here that every person has a aceent, what I don't believe.

As the first person who replied above said and others agreed, EVERYONE has an accent, but I think you meant the question to be whether people here have accents from their first language when they speak a second (or third, or fourth?) language. I am not laughing AT you, Laurika. When you say you can tell if a person is from Germany or England, do you mean when they speak the language they were born to or the one you were born to or English? If you travel from New York to Los Angeles and stop at various places along the way, you will hear that the local people sound very different as you travel even in the US.

I don't unerstand what is funny on this question?

Yeah i have experience with that too, when people say they don't understand.

Usually they have problem with my accent the first time we talk, but after they get used to it, there is not problem...

Hi goodsign, you see an i always though the people liek teachers don't have accent. At least in my language if someone is teaching slovak, the person cannot have a accent.

I am not sure, if I am right, but I always had a theory like this.

oh...I see..thanks for that info.

I though teachers should not have one.

how?maybe every indivual has his or her tone.

I though the really good teahcers doesn't have a accents.

I though teacher doesn't have one. At least it is like that in coutry I am from.

that is interesting, you can speak gemrna fluently, but you don't know what you are saying.

I'm from Texas too and was in Speech class in the first of my school years. I think I left that class when I was like in 3rd or 4th grade? The teacher said that there was nothing wrong with the way I talk and that I sounded British. When I talk I can hear myself and it sounds like it's a mix of British, German and Irish. I have NO idea how THAT is possible, because I am the only one in my family who sounds like that lmao! I wonder if genealogy has something to do with it? I found out sometime last year that my family comes from all three of those countries mentioned above. Maybe it's a gene I inherited? I know I can speak German fluently, even though I have no idea what I am saying (if I'm reading from a piece of paper or something). I know how German sounds, I just don't know the English translation in other words.

I love people from Uk talking. It is so different compare to american english.