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I speak German with no real accent, I just speak the "normal" German. But when I am a longer time at my grandparent´s house I tend to speak a bit with their accent. But after a few days this is gone again.

A local accent, quite typically. But I've learned to sound a good deal more well-spoken than a lot of the locals...

Midwestern, but unusually featuring the pin-pen merger.

I have a very thick Southern accent.

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I have a slight New England accent due to spending the first ten years of my life in Maine.

US Midwestern monotone. Although I've never pronounced the 'L' in words like old, cold, sold... I didn't realize it until someone I knew in college pointed it out. "ode" "code" "sode"

I'm not sure where that comes from.

British: proper Home Counties grammar school educated (posh, okay) and a bit of American (my mom says about a third).
When I'm angry or trying to act, I pick up a bit of a foreign accent. I don't know why.

Mancunian with a hint of Salfordian.

English it's a South East accent although some have said I can sound like someone from the West Country.
When I have to speak Dutch I have a North Holland accent. Years ago I had an Amsterdam accent but I lost that after I moved.
And I have a West Flemish accent as a mother tongue.

I've got a typical kind of English accent but I sometimes have a slight Russian accent I get from my grandmother, although I haven't been to Russia since I was about 6.

British English.
Beyond that, it is quite relative; I have been told by southerners that I have a northern (specifically, Lancashire) accent, and by fellow northerners that I speak the "queen's English" and sound like I am from West London. I use the same vowel pronunciation as in the South (apart from the letter A, which I pronounce in the short "alpha" way rather than the long "are" way for words like "bath" and "laugh"). I do not roll my 'r's. My inflection varies slightly, seemingly randomly, between something closer to that of Lancashire and something closer to that of the home counties, though not very much.

I've lived in California my entire life, and most of my speech is on par with a California accent.

I have a very typical American accent, but with one slight regional variation. Like a lot of people from Connecticut, I sort of swallow my t's in the middle of words if the t or tt comes between two vowels. For instance, when I say the word cotton, I say the "co" and then it's like I pause for the amount of time it would take to say the t sound, and then I say the the final "on." Altogether it sort of comes out as "co-in"
But there are some words that the t is still pronounced in the middle, for example, autism.

When I speak Spanish (I'm not close to being fluent but I can usually get across what I'm trying to say) I seem to not have any specific accent. I lost my American accent at the beginning of high school when I was around a lot of fluent speakers from a mix of different countries. They would comment that I didn't have an American accent, but when I asked them what accent I did have, they were always stumped for an answer. Since finishing high school I have lost a little bit of my accent, but I have actually lost more of my vocabulary than my accent, which was the opposite of what I had expected.

My english teacher used to say I had a "hoood-ish" slang in my voice whenever I talked for a long time. I don't even know what that means.

Ah, I can pull of a lot of accents, actually.
British, American, Australian... I use American mostly, 'cause it's easier to form the words that way.
I've heard native speakers speaking English all my life, so I don't have a "Turkish" accent at all. I don't even remember how to pull of a Turkish accent anymore.
My real accent is Irish though, or something really close to it.

Mostly when I get really tired, I'm super southern (American). Mostly I think I'm just "regular". I, like so many others here, pick-up accents extremely easily. When Madonna had gotten married to Guy Richie and lived in Britain for so long, everybody said she was faking a British accent----but, I figured she was just the same as us and just picked it up, and it sorta clung to her. She could've been doing it for attention, though, of course.