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While I strive to hide my German accent, and regularly attempt making my various english accents more specific, I simultaneously hold that there is glory to European English, or, probably more importantly, for example Indian English. The site would feel more progressive if it included those.

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> I simultaneously hold that there is glory to European English, or, probably more importantly, for example Indian English.

My Polish colleagues do seem to find Indian English accents easier to understand than Irish ones.

Is there a reason you want to hide your accent? I love varius accents and enjoy hearing different ones as long as the pronunciation isn’t too off that I have to make a super effort to communicate. I see accents as flavor or aroma to language.

If someone speaks in an unexpected accent, even if it's an unambiguous and internally coherent accent so that it's perfectly possible to understand it it takes a few seconds for well-meaning natives to adjust to. It does get tiresome to have to repeat yourself. You want to at least get to the level that if you talk to someone, it registers as English immediately.

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