[Maquisard]

I've heard Africans, Americans, Frenchmen, Germans and Macedonians speak Serbian, and I'm fairly confident I'd be able to ID the accent if I heard it again.

The accent I speak English with has been confused with Russian in the distant past. Since it has become less prominent, I get asked whether I'm Austrian more often.

Most people who speak English as a 2nd language don't notice my accent, while native-born Americans do. I'm worried I'll get stereotyped as the "ugly American" when I visit Europe, because they would hear me speak and think I was born in the U.S. (unless I'm visiting Britain, maybe) I think I should escalate my attempts to learn French, so I would have an alternative way of communicating over there...but then again, not speaking "proper" French presents with difficulties of its own...