What does an american accent sound like to a foreigner?

[Slimebeast]

Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:

Khuutra said:

There is no default United States accent.

I know there isn't an official one, but when the OP said "By american accent I mean the Midwestern columbus ohio middle class type" he tried to choose one that represents American accent "best" to a foreigner.

That has more to do with his perceptions than anything, though. Like - you don't think of that as the typical American accent, right?

Can you name someone who does have what you think of as a typical accent? Maybe Obama?

I don't know. I assumed the OP tried to do that, but maybe he failed.

What I am after is what CommonMan said above: "The average American accent would be the "Accent Neutral" dialect that is taught to newscasters I guess, the closest it comes is to a California accent." That's what I meant by default.

Now there aint no accent in the US that sounds exactly like that, but there are accents that sounds more, or less, like that. And that is my point.

Here in Sweden we say that many of us "try to speak without an accent" - meaning that there is a 'theoretical' default Swedish accent, what could be called "the right" accent - or "the Swedish language without accent" if you will.