Strange accents as a youth?

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I would mock a british or irish accent when i was younger.

My grandparents always claimed I sounded like a Russian kid, not that I knew any at that time. I can still sound a little like this when I try and it sometimes slips in when I speak English too. But it doesn't sound Russian, not Polish either, maybe it's Italian though or a mix of all of them... I have no idea what this accent actually is, but it sounds funny.

People from all the regions of Poland have the same accent (there are some regional differences, of course but the concept that one can easy recognize which social class his interlocutor belongs to, what part of country he lives in and which educational institution he has attended on the basis of accent itself is not easy to comprehend fully for someone from my country in contrast to, for example English people). But many times I was paid attention to my artificial manner of speaking, especially speaking of pronouncing some vowels - it's how I once explained this issue on WP: " I have a habit of pronouncing Polish nasal vowels very audibly, clearly while in fact they are asynchronous, not like for example in French - when you want to pronounce Polish ą or ę you have to start with o or e." This manner of speaking is generally mocked here as characteristic for people exerting themselves for sounding like representatives of high class ladies and gentlemen.

Everytime I moved to a different country people would comment on whatever accent I had at the moment, but it would soon change to fit the local better, at least up to a certain age.

When I watch old home videos, it's even amusing.

when i was about 6 or 7 my mom said the only way she could get me in the house at nite was to roar like a mountain lion

Heh, when I was learning to talk, we had a nanny with a strong accent. When I started talking, I did so with a Texan drawl.

Wen i was younger i often sounded like a cartoon character but nowadays my accent is more of a sports commentater.

When I was younger I would on occasion speak with an accent, that faded long ago. I understand it has something to do with ASD's.

My family members would have me repeat this sentence all the time "I parked the car in the garrage", just because the way i pronounced it.
(my name too because it sounded like raw-butt when i said it)

Two years ago a boy at school asked me if I was Canadian. (He is Canadian, and I think he was raised there.) I've never been there, and I don't even know what that accent is supposed to sound like. The next year my Spanish teacher said I sounded like I had an Irish accent after I took an oral exam. I don't think I know what a real Irish accent is supposed to sound like, and I'm almost a native Spanish speaker... maybe I was just nervous. (I spoke it when I was very young but forgot and had to relearn it recently.) I don't think either accent was very obvious, though.

I can do a pretty good British accent...

As a child I watched a lot of British TV and read a lot of British books, and picked up an accent and even some dialect features, which have disappeared since.

My code switching is still quite broken, as I shift between affected-sounding formality and a dreadful lower class dialect, which I didn't even learn as a child.

I don't think I've ever had a noticeable accent.

Tim

I sounded British as a toddler, then I got my 'real' accent. I now have about 3 'mother accents' that I slip into depending on who I'm around. I can impersonate pretty much any one spot on though, as a native.

I learn languages for fun and am often complimented by native speakers on my pronounciation being perfect after hearing things just once... I guess my mimicry of NT life extends to my speech as well?!

Apparently I sound Canadian, dispite never having visited there and not knowing any one from there. I barely have a clue what their accent sounds like, except for the stereotyped "aboot" thing, which I've been told is false anyway. (And I hadn't even said that word when the person asked me if I was from Canada, so I have no idea what made her ask).

I grew up in a very Welsh town and my mother is Liverpudlian. You'd expect I'd pick up one of those accents, or a mixture of both, because both can be pretty strong and yet, I didn't develop either of these accents until I moved to Liverpool at 15 and then slowly picked the Liverpudlian accent up.

Alot of people are suprised to hear that I was born in Chester. I've known a few people who where shocked to find out that I was even British (The teacher who asked me if I was Canadian, for one).

As far back as I can remember I could instinctively to go back and forth between Upper Midwestern English (like in the movie Fargo) and a "standard" American English with a somewhat Western flavor, using the former in informal situations and the latter in more formal situations.