sounds funny for the rest of us germans but we have worse akzents (is that how u call it too in the us?) here in some regions of germany.
his akzent is called schwäbisch (with umlaut ä or if u cant see it there- its ae). u speak it in the region around stuttgard (where the porsches come from). hes a nice guy though.
ur german is still really good clark!!! im surprised everytime u write something in german.