I've had a couple of people tell me that I sound like I have a German accent, and then I asked a German family the other day if I do, and they said, "Hell no!" I guess when people say that, they have no clue, and maybe they're trying to make us feel better? I should have remembered, though, to ask where they thought I was from. My accent is an expression of exposure to accents from every major continent on Earth in the last 35 years. I probably now hear 70% of accents within a month's time, and the rest of them will probably filter in over the course of a year. I get people from various countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas. I don't have any natives from Antarctica, though. 
