Austin Improv

Here's a useful website with examples of accents from all over the world

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm

Excellent! Perhaps this will help me suck less at accents.

Nice! I've been looking for a resource like this for a long time.

Say that's pretty cool. Never seen a directory broken down by state before:

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/usa.htm

IDEA is my favorite accent place. I highly recommend it to anyone, particularly given that it shows folks speaking english from a very wide variety of nationality, region, age, gender, and education levels. Very very neat stuff.