In your country, how common is it for people to speak with a so-called "standard" accent?

[Roy]

Not common even on tv, but what is standard to me is more like a neutral northern (that is, not occurring south of La Spezia-Rimini line) accent

Perfect example of this variety is spoken by journalist Lilli Gruber who, ironically, is South Tyrolean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otnYdlErIwg

Proper standard Italian as dictated by Accademia della Crusca is otherwise a voice acting/dubbing professional thing, requires formal training and virtually no one uses it in daily life

To me it seems like a standard, taught in Poland sort of Italian.

[Roy]

IDK about accent, but the written language is awful. Very few, because the reform of Finnish failed. Too long words and spaces.

F.ex.

Are you

Std written language "oletko sinä", but in spoken language "o:tsä"

To make this more complex, we have 6 dialects and Swedish speakers. Local dialects, old and young dialects.

The girl I know, who is my cousin, claims that the Finnish she learns at language school in Poland is diametrically different to living, spoken language.

[The Lawspeaker]

Very common. The central government has been trying to stamp out all forms of dialect ever since the 19th century and this policy was only revoked during the late 1990s. The media are almost exclusively Hollandic and thus a Hollandic-centric Standard Dutch is pushed through with fewer and fewer people speaking dialect every year although regional accents still exists.

[Ülev]

on vapaalle, ilman kasijarru, metsa, kaupunki, tervetuloa, kiitos, I forgot almost everything

[Zeus]

well in the us there has been very few people I've met who don't speak in what I'd describe as generally a standard American accent, but I usually stick to major cities, so I dont know what people in the rural areas sound like really. Even living in the South, a major city admittedly, I've genuinely only heard a couple people in my life with a "southern accent", but this is all anecdotal again....

[Tooting Carmen]

well in the us there has been very few people I've met who don't speak in what I'd describe as generally a standard American accent, but I usually stick to major cities, so I dont know what people in the rural areas sound like really. Even living in the South, a major city admittedly, I've genuinely only heard a couple people in my life with a "southern accent", but this is all anecdotal again....

I thought the Southern accent was pretty widespread?

[Zeus]

I thought the Southern accent was pretty widespread?

I'm from a rich family in the suburbs of a major city who went to high-end private schools and a good university, so my experience isn't the norm, but I do not encounter what I'd consider a southern accent very often at all and almost only when I go fairly far out from the city itself. In almost every major city I go to across the nation it's the same thing as well where everyone I see has a similar accent to mine, what I'd describe as standard/neutral American. My dad spent alot of his young adult years in New York and he tells me the accents used to be stronger then, in like the 70's, but now for whatever reason the accents have become largely standardized within the major cities among the native population except among the poor working class, who we don't often see or speak to(he blames this on foreign and domestic immigrants - idk if that's true or not).

[Tooting Carmen]

I'm from a rich family in the suburbs of a major city who went to high-end private schools and a good university, so my experience isn't the norm, but I do not encounter what I'd consider a southern accent very often at all and almost only when I go fairly far out from the city itself. In almost every major city I go to across the nation it's the same thing as well where everyone I see has a similar accent to mine, what I'd describe as standard/neutral American. My dad spent alot of his young adult years in New York and he tells me the accents used to be stronger then, in like the 70's, but now for whatever reason the accents have become largely standardized within the major cities among the native population except among the poor working class, who we don't often see or speak to(he blames this on foreign and domestic immigrants - idk if that's true or not).

Well in Britain's case, the only regional accents that are very much dying out are the highly rural ones of the West Country and East Anglia, especially among the younger generations and the middle classes. By contrast, most regional accents in the North, Midlands, Wales and Scotland are largely in tact.

[Mortimer]

In media, and school it is common. And for some upper class people or wannabe upper class people, who are pretentious have a mix of austrian accent and standard german.

[Tooting Carmen]

In media, and school it is common. And for some upper class people or wannabe upper class people, who are pretentious have a mix of austrian accent and standard german.

Does Austria have its own version of Hochdeutsch, or is it the same as in Germany?