There are a lot of different kinds of southern accents and some are very strong. Sometimes I also don't understand them, but I find them really interesting.
Very true, that's why I used "most" and "some". You could probably say that about most accents, but of all American accents Southern and North-Western accents are probably the most obvious in terms of where the person is from, makes subtle variations more obvious.
English people would say that I don't have an accent because I have what is often called Received Pronunciation. In essence that means no regional accent; of course I sound English.
I'm quite good at imitating some regional accents; some are impossible to imitate such as Geordie (from the northeast of England). Living in London I hear English pronounced by people from a huge range of countries, and I have no problem with most of them. There are some US accents which really grate on me (sorry guys, I know many of your are from the US), and the way words are pronounced by people from some Eastern European countries can be difficult for me to understand. But basically I have no real problem with accents.
Ehh, it works both way. The most common English accents have some things that bug me every time I hear them.
I think it's also weird how American and English people treat words of French origin (which make up a significant portion of English vocabulary), some words Americans retain an approximation of the French pronunciation and the English ditch it, other words it's completely reversed.
Nothing is more beautiful then a Russian accent! American accents all sound weird to me, this southern accent seems weird. Of course people say that my German accent sounds weird to lol.
Yeah you can't get away from that, everyone has an accent that someone somewhere things sounds weird. I like most German accents that I have heard, though.