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Again, thank you for the compliments on my voice.
Kooyeen, you did hear correctly, there are some certain features in my accent which may make me sound a little Southern.
You are also right on me not being a native speaker. If I may ask, how did you find out?
Indeed, I have been spending a lot of my energy working on my English skills and on my accent in particular. I have been studying English since I was about 6 years old, which was 20 years ago.
Kooyeen, you did hear correctly, there are some certain features in my accent which may make me sound a little Southern.
You are also right on me not being a native speaker. If I may ask, how did you find out?
Indeed, I have been spending a lot of my energy working on my English skills and on my accent in particular. I have been studying English since I was about 6 years old, which was 20 years ago.
RaymonddYou are also right on me not being a native speaker. If I may ask, how did you find out?I cheated.

RaymonddIndeed, I have been spending a lot of my energy working on my English skills and on my accent in particular. I have been studying English since I was about 6 years old, which was 20 years ago.Well, no wonder you can speak that way then! I also like to learn about pronunciation, but I stopped obsessing about it when I realize there are so many way of speaking that it would make no sense to say "this must be pronounced this way and not that way". Also, I wouldn't know what to focus on in particular, since I don't live in an English speaking country. I might never move, but if I do, will I end up in Texas, in California, in London, or in Glasgow? That's why I realized getting too obsessed over a particular accent is useless for most people. I am still obsessing over pronunciation, but much less than I used to.


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I must second that. It would be amazing to being able to switch between AE and BrE, but I end up over-doing the one I'm not so familiar with. Then again, not even all native speakers are able to do this, so I'm not going be stressed out because of this

That's actually what I've been doing for quite some time. Trying to master both an American accent and a British one. 

I'm American from California and I think you south like you're from Texas or somewhere in the south.
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