Strange question, but: Is it really that unusual for an American to be able to distinguish between English spoken with an English, Australian, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, German, French, or Finnish accent?
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I wouldn't trust myself to distinguish nordic accents from one another.
Yeah, you'll note that I omitted Swedish/Norwegian/Danish. I can generally place Swedish versus Norwegian/Danish, but the latter two sound nearly identical to me, in that they have the same audible structure as Swedish but different enough phonemes to know they're not it.
