Austrian here. My school struck to Oxford English and we had speaking exercises to get us to adopt a British accent. (Their main goal was to make us sound more native and less like Arnold Schwarzenegger). American and Austalian accents were accepted but not actively encouraged by the teachers.
I myself tried to adopt the British accent but I think I kinda ended up in a weird mixture of British and American English :')
American English. Not because I or others actively want to, but because their massive media output shifts you into adapting their sound.
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Finn here. Never tried to imitate anything. More like tried to find a clean and sensible or neutral approach if possible, if anything.
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Dunno about trying to imitate dialects but -
I’m a gamer that has played western games the most. I assume that means American English. All those youth years of mine delving in and jumping from a game to another, listening at cutscenes (with subtitles on of course) and talking to other gamers once in a while has probably the most influenced my skill of english.
I think I talk American English pretty fluently nowadays, although I don’t speak English daily. Folks have said I’m pretty good at pronouncing.
German here, I started with a mishmash of accents I think but it probably trended towards US-American. Then I binge-watched Monty Python and Doctor Who in my 20s and I can say with a fair amount of certainty that that’s the point where I inadvertently started doing a rather posh British RP accent. It shifts around a bit, depending on what I recently watched (David Tennant always infects me with his accent) but I find that stereotypical British accents are closer to what my mouth does in German so it’s actually easier for me than other variants of English. Now if only I could get rid of all the US-American vocabulary I’ve picked up over the years.
Not going for an accent, just the basic American.
Edit: I am from the Netherlands. Plus OP, or mod of the sub, that you think anything bad is gonna happen if I don’t mention my country is just not true and is just overcomplicating things. Still, I respect the rule, so I put my country up.
