Quote Originally Posted by Ann View Post
Can you really tell that the accent is "American" as opposed to just "foreign"?
Maybe not specifically American, but I'd say it's pretty easy to recognize an accent as English. The language has a rather atypical collection of sounds. For example, could you find that many examples of languages that have the same R,T,D, "er" sounds? Any, among popular languages, please . And that pounding rhythm typical of English speech, but foreign for Russian or, say, Japanese.