I really like my British lecturer's rural English accent. It sounds as gentle as he is speaking French. And one more thing about my speaking English is that the formal written English has a very big difference from daily oral English. But, luckly, the written English is tend to become more and more oral. But, people who is capable of using formal written English can save writting spaces from avoiding using phrases filled out with words.
Many people may think that English is quite different from German. Acturally, the relationship between English and German just like two person with same skeleton and organs inside but different appaerances. I myself have no difficulty in analysing, describing, debating and summerising in English. And now I'm trying to learn German with the help from English. I gotta say - it's kind of fun doing that. But the premise is, your English should be as good as your mother tongue. If you're an English freshman. This could lead to a confusing situation with the two languages.
Just a little experience from my point of view. By the way, I prefer my lecturer's rural accent from UK and I'm using it as my accent now. Cheers and greetings to the topic starter (which means "楼主" in Chinese).
