Adopting different accents?

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Throughout my life my accent has changed. I grew up in east coast but started to speak a bit with a drawl when I lived in the South for a few years. Then when I started living abroad I ended up hanging out with mostly Californians and I picked up the way they speak, which makes people think I'm from California even though I never lived there. My southern accent comes out more when I hang out with southerners.

Now that I've been more exposed to English speakers from different countries, I ended up adopting things from then. I say "mate" more now. To non-English people, I can do a pretty good "general" English accent now but English people can tell that I'm faking it.

But no matter how long I've been away from the states, I still default to a general American accent. But it's fun to mess around with different accents. The South African accent is a really fun one.

Has anyone successfully learned how to speak with a different accent?
 
I lost some of my accent by moving to alberta, I think I have interacted with a half dozen french speakers in the last 20 years I bet if I heard a recording of myself from back then I would not recognize myself
 
I lost some of my accent by moving to alberta, I think I have interacted with a half dozen french speakers in the last 20 years I bet if I heard a recording of myself from back then I would not recognize myself

I'm a British guy who lived in Alberta for 15+ years, and while I still have a British accent I habitually say 'eh' at the end of sentences. Like way more than any Canadian I've met
 
I was watching this show, killing eve, and the villain on there Villanelle is great.

She switches seamlessly from English, French, Russian and Spanish.
 
Depends on what part of Texas I'm in.
 
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