What accents can you do? (other than your own)

OTM! I'm like this with German - I'm completely fluent, to the point that Actual Germans have in the past thought I was a compatriot, but my German accent when speaking English is comically shit.

I do a mean Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, however.

As an aside, I've been trying to find a German who can demonstrate to me the German equivalent of an English person doing an impression of a German person speaking English with a German accent...if you see what I mean. any ideas? Is there even such a thing?

I'd love to though.

If I attempt Welsh I end up sounding Pakistani, and vice versa. If I attempt Geordie I end up sounding like a Welsh Pakistani.

I'm terrible at regional Scottish accents, apart from my own.

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Not sure I've explained myself adequately: what I mean is, English people have a standard way of lambasting Germans speaking English, mainly gleaned from old war films and possible Fawlty Towers - y'know, "Vee haff vayz off making you talk" etc - but I want to know if there's a cultural equivalent in Germany, or indeed any other country, for English.

Anyone? Americans, Canadians or Antipodeans, even? What do we Brits/Poms/Limeys actually *sound* like?

What's worse is that I can't really do my own native accent anymore. Being young and eager to get out of Australia meant I didn't mind losing it upon arrival in London, but now I'd kind of like to get it back.

Probably something to do with my mongrel of an accent

like others, i can't actually do my own accent anymore.

xpost omg that's what i do chris.

West Flemish -> horrendous

English -> is that an accent? people always *accuse* me of speaking *perfect* English

German & French -> although i can't speak it that well

other accents i think i do ok in a 'generic comedy' style:

cockernee (even better than dick van dyke)
scouse (like sinbad off brookie)
brummie/black cuun-tray (noddy holder)
scottish lite (just glasweigan i suppose)
scottish ned (based on jamesie from rab c nesbitt)
comedy scottish (groundskeeper willie)
home counties posh lady (the queen)
new york/new jersey italian
southern american
that weird american accent used by vic n' bob in the past
mancunian/lancs
yorkshire
comedy cornish
welsh/indian (Apu joins Goldie Lookin' Chain)
irish
northern irish (on a good day)
spanish
french
german
russian
japanese (banzai)
australian

i impersonate mr burns good too if that counts. but never ask me to do them as that never works (it has to be natural and spontaneous).

I've just decided, while sitting 10m away from a dutch chap who speaks indistinguishably perfect English but often reverts to his native tongue on the phone, that I can definitely do a Dutch accent, since it seems to have *precisely* the same intonation as English anyway.

I sit here, barely aware that he's talking furren, like, and then suddenly it dawns on me that, y'know, it *sounds* like he's speaking English, but I don't recognise any of the words....

I can do a reasonable English accent but, like most North Americans, have a tendency to mix up regions, so it's a hodge-podge of Mancunian, Souf London, Cockney, and Upper Class Toff.

Much of this I can do on cue. Others require me to watch TV or hang with the natives. I learned quite a bit, when learning French, by looking at people's mouths when they speak and that's always useful for any accent.

requests -- what about a Canadian accent? :)

Except for FOB/Chinese Engrish. There's a trend here, I see.

as for funny american gibberish, my swedish dad used to play cowboys when he was young and not knowing english words, just did some john wayne imitation saying derivatives of 'wully, bully, kully'