Are you good at imitating accents?

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Ever since I was a young child I've been imitating accents and dialects. I found it fascinating to listen to how people talked and then imitate it. I still do it sometimes and I'm good at it (at least according to other people). I guess that's nice since I sometimes make people laugh by doing so.

Anyway, out of curiosity, are you good at imitating accents and/or imitating people in general?

No, not at all.

My english accent is awful. And in swedish I can't do it either.

I tend to pick them up without trying to, if I'm around people who speak with strong accents that I like for a while. It's kind of embarrassing sometimes. I worry they'll think I'm mocking them. I have to like the accent, though, so I guess I just listen so closely that I start to mimic it without trying.

My friends and family love it when I imitate a Scottish accent and sometimes ask me to do it for them. I can't tell if it's because I'm really good at it or if I'm hilariously bad at it.

On the other hand, for the past two years I have tried really hard to imitate a London accent (since that's the accent that a couple of my favorite fictional characters have), but I'm just no good at it.

I'm awful trying to imitate accents. It doesn't just come naturally to me as it seems to be the case with virtually everyone else, who can fake them at least passably.Even my own accent sounds different than how it should, and people sometimes think I'm from another region or another country altogether. Wonder if that's the case with some of you guys.

Oh, yes. I am very good. How was that?

yes i am

Meh, I cant even do a reasonable American accent, and thats where Ive lived all my life. Everyone says it sounds weird. Not helped by my annoying high pitched voice and rhotacism.

Can't fake an accent (when trying) to save my life, but I unconsciously mimic the accents and speech patterns of those around me. And apparently I do it well enough to fool anyone who doesn't know me.

No.

If I am around people who speak with a different accent for very long I tend to start speaking the same way.

This is interesting, a fair amount of us can't fake an accent in purpose, with exceptions. What mds and Titangeek said is basically what happens to me, I remember I picked up a bit of a german accent after my year there, which hasn't completely gone away as of now.

I'm not very good at imitating accents.

Very

Yeaup. Leave me somewhere for a month, and by the end of it I will be mimicking it perfectly but completely unaware of it.

However, ask me to do it consciously - and nope, I suck!

With English, it's a bit different. Since I was forced to sound like them when I moved here (or risk beatings), that took it's toll and I prefer not to bother trying as it screwed it up for me. While I can do it perfectly, most of the time I have my normal, very weird and mixed one here.

In the end, whenever I move to a new place, as long as nobody forces it too soon, I end up mimicking it anyway.

I love it when people imitate other actors.