I would not worry, as they were not as pronounced as many I've heard in those regions.

I've lived in Montana, California, Oregon, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Indiana, so I should have had them all right! I got about half at best.

There are some giveaway syllables you can't hear in the two examples.

I just love the Scottish language and became to appereciate it even more with my son being over there the past year.When he came back to SA for holiday, his English he spoke was Scottish and he sounded so very different(more man?) I dont know, I just know that the Scottish language and people are in there own world.

I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent!

Whit's wrang wi' the Scots' accent?
Ah've nivir hid the least bit' borra unnerstaunin' the guid auld Glezga accent, neither ah hiv'.
Of course you'll probably find that we can speak much more clearly if we're after something!

Nothing's wrong with a Scottish accent. It's great.

No wonder no-one can understand you - I can't even read you

I was once in a takeaway place in Fife somewhere and asked for Fish and Chips and the girl didn't have a clue what I wanted even after a few goes. My mate had to translate for me.

Oh you mean Fush and chups.

I didn't do at all well on Taesma's American accent quiz: I couldn't even recognize one of the southern accents as southern. It was nice to hear Ren's Gloucester link, though.

Copago, you may have even more trouble if you ever visit the Aberdeen area. This is sometimes known as "Furryboots" country: "furryboots" is a reasonable phonetic representation of the way some Aberdonians say "whereabouts".

Don't feel too bad, it's a really difficult test. As Bruyere noted, those bits are on the subtle side.
On the other hand, it does seem to me that with all of the traveling and relocating people are doing nowadays, accents are becoming less pronounced here. Maybe not much, but to my ear I hear a lot more variety. Where I live, there are so many different accents and dialects, both home-grown and imported, that it'd be difficult to tell which is the 'regional' one, I think.
I grew up with a rather pronounced Wisconsin accent (no, it doesn't sound like the one from Minnesota ), but having lived in California for many years, it's largely disappeared, unless I'm very tired. I can turn it on and off at will easily, though. I've met many people like that; I think in another couple hundred years or so there could very well be one generic "American" accent of sorts.

Here is a link to a few sayings in the broadest of Yorkshire accents.
Try saying them out loud or clicking on them to hear Tony the Pit Pony read them in a Barnsley accent.
If you still don't understand them, I can translate.

Many people I know from here say that I don't have a typical accent for a Californian because I've lived so many places. But they don't hear me with my family!

Taesma, you realize you're so close I could throw a stone out the window and it would hit your place? I'm only about 10 miles! The accent here is slightly trendier than in the Valley where I grew up in Sacramento.

If you want to hear a funny thing, check out the Four Yorkshiremen routine on Youtube with Alan Rickman (think Harry Potter and my fave villainous prof) and a few others!
It's a tribute to the Monty Python one and it's a riot.
They click and t with the best of them.

Yes, I knew we are neighbors, but I didn't know exactly where/how close you were. (Well, I still don't know precisely where but...close enough.
You still job hunting?

My all time favorite accent is Australian, followed by British, Spanish and Middle Eastern.

This is a really funny clip from the BBC . See if you can fathom out what the Scottish shopkeeper is saying!
Turn on the sound!

Ren, I just watched that clip about the seagull. It was great!

Then I decided I had better go and start cooking dinner. So I left the computer and turned on the TV in the kitchen. The news was on and they were playing that same clip! I wonder if one of the news producers is a FunTrivia member?

In the news story, they said that Sam has become a local celebrity and now people are paying for his chips.

Grrrrr!! We hate seagulls where I come from. Real vermin!!

I love englishwomen. There is a property show on pay TV with an english woman helping people renovate for profit. I watch for the accent. What is the name for this. Accensexuals. I wonder if mine is from being half english. I'm guessing the bottom half.

I would have to say the australian accent is my favourite as well as the italian accent.

Angel I would just like to say stone the crows, what a beeeeaaauuuty, crikey and ciao.

Quebecois don't sound the same as European French.

At one place I worked another nurse always made fun of my accent; pretended she couldn't understand me, told me I sounded as if I was FOB and so on. Then she got married to an English guy and on their honeymoon they went to England to meet his family. When she got back, she was extremely indignant because people there dared to say SHE had a Canadian accent! I kept my mouth shut but thought it couldn't have happened to a nicer person!

Gotta say Australian accents are charming. They've got a lot of sayings in common with the British, so the British accent is nice too. I'd listen to it for hours and hours because I live in New Jersey where water is wader and coffee is caughfee. Canadian accents are nice too. Antonia Banderas speaking English, that I'd listen to hours on end! You know who's really fun to listen to, Hugh Jackman. He's really good at changing accents. If you watch the blooper reel in Van Helsing and he messes up on speech, it's really funny. One of them I saw actually has him start going off in other accents.

I love the British accent. It is similar to the Newfie accent. If anyone ever comes to Newfoundland, the accent changes with the community. People who visit say that it is the most accents in such a small place they ever seen. They are amazed.

I've got a few but my number one is easily South African. We have many expats where I live and I'd like to go there just to be able to hear it all the time.
I also like another African accent we hear sometimes round here, Nigerian. It's one of the most musical accents you'll ever hear.

i really like south african accents too. questions for british people (or any one not from the us) does it sound really fake when americans have british accents in movies?

I love almost all accents. I was in Austraila for the Olympics and really enjoyed listening to the accents there.

In IA, my hometown seemed to have it's own peculiarities. I grew up hearing an s pronunced as a z. Minnesota became Minnezota. I had a lisp as a child and had to go to a class where the teacher would have us do tongue twisters over and over. She emphasized enunciation. "Twunny" was wrong, "twenty" was correct. "Orange City" not "Or'n City."

Native Americans around here have an entirely different accent, I think. It is a bit of a nasal sound and they draw out some vowels, with emphasis on different syllables. I like listening to them, too.