I am a long time language enthusiast. I am interested in helping Greek speakers with their English in exchange for learning and practicing my Greek. I speak a little Greek and need to build my vocabulary. I have been dabbling in Greek for too many years to count and now I am seriously studying. I'm also brushing up on and continuing to study Russian. I have been very active in Memrise (http://www.memrise.com) creating courses for language learners in Greek, Russian, and German. I am also an English language Editor for Forvo (www.forvo.com) where I try to contribute pronunciations in English as often as I can as well as correct and manage entries in the English section. Recently I also spent some time learning a little German, and then focused mainly on Russian for about a year as a refresher. Right now my primary interest is Greek. For English, I use as neutral a pronunciation as possible so that the words would sound typically American. However, for words that are local for me I generally pronounce with my normal Boston accent. American English is varied in its dialects, like most languages. My native accent is Boston which most learners might have some amount of trouble with as we frequently do not pronounce the letter 'r' where it belongs and we insert it sometimes where it does not belong! I learned a more neutral way of speaking when I moved away from Boston many years ago. But then I came back and (luckily) it all came rushing back . . . There is an excellent and very technical description about the Boston accent in wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_accent). And our accent is usually butchered in the movies and on TV. The majority of people who try to do the Boston accent really stand out as phony, which in some way has sensitized me to why things like Forvo are so important. You have to get the accent right, so listen to natives pronounce things correctly and it will help tremendously.