I've never picked  up an accent while traveling.

I already have an accent, I don't think I'll pick up another.

I pick up accents really quickly, so usually about two or three days.

I'm from Northeast Texas, where we get the worst of the Texas twang, the southern drawl, and the linguistic excrement that passes for English in Arkansas, but i live in Dallas now and my coworkers are from all over the country, so my accent is usually a pretty "neutral" Standard American English.  When i visit my parents, after about day three i start cringing at the sounds coming out of my mouth.

My boyfriend is Chinese, and we were dating two weeks before i found myself dropping plurals and forgetting to use tenses, and the longer we've been together the more my grammar has started to suck.

I went to Boston a few years ago, and on day three i stahted dropping my Rs.  I noticed in New York last week i had to be a lot more deliberate in my pronunciation to avoid doing that.

In 1969 I lived in Alabama for 6 months.  Right after that I returned to my stomping grounds in upstate New York.  My family and friends were amused at the southern drawl I acquired.  I was not aware of it until they told me.  It went away quickly.

Apparently I have the Brooklyn accent, which isn't surprising since it's where I was born and raised. I don't notice it myself though, obviously, but I had a friend from Hawaii who told me that it's not has heavy as other New Yorkers.

I pick up the fobby accents when I go back to China or hang out with a bunch of fobs for a long period of time. haha My English then sounds like I'm not a native speaker.

I pick up accents, it would seem, ridiculously quickly. Not only that but when I use a foreign language oversea's I come home and seem to have a hard time shaking the impulse to continue using various foriegn words. Case in point; I went to Europe a couple of few ago, France and Switzerland. My guide was a very english guy. So when I came home I had a slight english lilt to my speech and was continuesly using verious random french words for weeks afterwords, to strangers that I bumped into, and to vendors in the mall and such. It was the same when I went to Italy/France/Spain a couple years later, only the accent was less, because I never did speak very much Italian or Spainish. now, even when I'm speaking to English relitives, i have a tendacy to pick up a little bit of their accent.

When a good friend of mine came back from Texas, we made fun of her {all in good spirits,} for her southern lilt. But I think it only makes sense that when you are exposed to a way of speaking for awhile you will automatically pick up on it.

I acclimate very quickly!  I always have.  I can pick up accents in a day or two.  But not the visiting people and touring around, I'm talking about living in some place and really be surrounded by the people with different languages and accents.

I was in France for three days and the only people I encountered who spoke English were British English speaking people so after 2 days I had picked up a little accent when speaking English, but had already perfect my French accent.

I met some Americans on my 4th day there and everyone thought I had a British or Australian background b/c it was faint but definitely in my speech.  And everyone said it sounded so natural.  I was drunk and got into a fight with another girl and I was cursing w/ the accent.

LOL

I love that ability!  I don't even realize I'm doing it but I just do!

Reminds me of when my Californian husband visited his relatives in Louisiana.  They said he had a TV accent.  He thought they sounded like comedians.  Everything they said sounded like a sitcom to him.

The only accent I pick up is when I go back to Michigan where I grew up.

I moved to Australia and now have an Aussie accent.

I remember when I was younger, I spoke in a british accent for days after watching the spice girls movie. hahah.

lol..I remember staying in Boston for a while, and that I didn't understand half of what was being said to me for the first couple of days... XD Lovely!

I'm from Boston, and I grew up with an accent, but then after moving to a neighborhood at the outskirts I've lost it quite a bit. Now whenever I go back to Southie, my old neighborhood, people often ask if I'm even from there. But when I'm with people who have a Boston accent and I talk to them for a bit, I can pick back up on it in an hour or so... haha. I've never traveled anywhere long enough to pick up an accent, but I have experienced losing one.

@so_different1193@xanga - lol, yeah I get weird looks all the time when I ask for wooder out of state. I agree if we were conversing with New Yorkers...or in this week's case arguing with them over who will win the World Series...there is a difference. I love Souf Philly accents!