Can you imitate a foreign accent?

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Yes, whether I want to or not and this seems to be one of my problems! Without realizing it, I sometimes mirror the mannerisms of other people. When I was nervous about discussing a dispute between two friends I spoke in another friend's voice. I also have a robot voice, a semi-feminine voice, and a loud, booming voice.

When I speak to a person who has an accent or who struggles with incomplete vocabulary, the accent is mirrored and before too long I also speak with an accent and hesitations which are hard to get rid of if I do it for too long.

It's strange that a country as small as Britain should have such a wide variety of accents. I don't know how great the variety is in the States, but I can only really distinguish between about four types of American accent: Brooklyn; California (see Bill and Ted); Deep South; and everyone else.

Well, I've got an Aussie Accent but it's nothing like Paul Hogan's.

...especially if you work Helpdesk in a domestic Call Center, and you do your job in your normal voice, and end the calls with something like ' Please to help you very much, sir" in a fake Indian accent.

For the record, though, I can fake Brit, German, Irish, Canadian, and various American accents quite well.

I can do a really good Swedish accent.

I have a wonderful Cockney accent and I do not need my speech to be fixed, so that I can be the young white girl without an accent.

Ya right Cockney I bet you talk like me ehh, how's it goin ehh, I speak perfect canuk

It's funny that you mention that now, because everybody else around me sounds American.

Can do a lot of accents. I tend to have a lot of Monty Python accents, from overexposure as a yute... I used to do Scots like Scotty, until I heard to doctor on Stargate Atlantis, which to my ear, sounds more like what 'true' Scots should...

Just a question for our friends across the water; do you find that if an American does a British accent, it usually comes out as bad Cockney?... just wonderin'

Indian is fairly easy; just hold you upper lip still (Bombay Welsh). The only 'real' Welsh I ever heard was a song on Jethro Tull's Passion Play...which really dates me...

Russian I used to do like Checkov, until I heard more of a drawl (no kidding), like that on Armageddon, by the Russian astronaut.

I'd never fool a Brit for a second, because there are dozens of accents.

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Short List of various American accents:
Texan
Boston
Deep South
Brooklyn
New York
Chicago
Mid-West
New Jersey
Pacific Northwest

I can do any accent if I hear it enough.

All day I've been doing a New England accent - for anyone unsure - just imagine Peter Griffin's voice. "Lois - I'm going to move the CAH" (car)

I also do a good New York Jewish accent - like Mike Myers in Coffee Talk. (Cauwfee Tauwk) I just love to say "cauw-fee"!

Hawaiian's lovely and fun but takes work - "Ohhh, dat obake story give me da chicken skin, brah!"

A Yoda accent, and a Russian accent, and a Southern accent.
Really wish I could do Manchester accent.

I do speak with a foreign accent.

I can imitate my grandparents' accents (Indonesian and Yorkshire). I can also do a Scottish accent and a German accent.

I can do a Spanish accent quite well. I can also do French, Italian, British, and Australian accents as well.

Yes, a few. British, Austrian, German, French and Southern.