I always associated northern America with the 'normal' accent the rest of the world thinks of.

But then again, don't people in Hollywood who are in the movies have the pretty typical accents as well?
I am yet to write any words that include Ж. I avoid the hard letters whenever possible
Yes, Japanese does look pretty hard with all the curly bits. Do you think you're going to visit Korea some day? I hope some time I can go to Russia. That's, like, my holiday goal. lol.
Very nice! Sounds exciting. What kind of stuff does Basic Training involve?
There are a good bit of accents here

Roughly about 7 main ones I can think of at the moment; Western (California, Oregon, Washington), Texan "Cowboy" (Texas, surrounding states), Cajun (Louisiana, Mississippi. If you ask my northern grammar nazi self, I think it's a butchering of the English language, but whatever

I can't even understand people often times, even after a yea!), South Eastern (most of the south eastern states), Eastern (New York, New Jersey, other states in which I don't want to attempt to spell

), Mid-Western (My accent. Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Idaho, many more surrounding states), and then the accent everyone thinks Minnesotans, Iowans, North/South Dakotans, etc. people sound like which is mostly just fiction

(ok, this isn't a main accent XD)
There are a ton of sub accents of each too, like in North Dakota, they say some words slightly different, like bag is pronounced like "bäg", Pillow is "pellow", and Milk is "melk"
Noice XD I usually just write it like a 'K', then add more arms on the other side
Too always curly

just the 4 alphabets that make writing hard

as far as Korea, I'd like to visit South Korea one day :3 Russia would be awesome!
Tons of exercising, lots of team building stuff, and lots of shooting guns