I got neutral, which doesn't surprise me at all. The only coliqioulism I ever use is 'eh' which I do use a lot, but you can find this in British and Aussie usage too. I can hear accents, even subtle ones (I can pick out central (Ontario even diff parts) and eastern Canadian (Maritime) to my own, and can pick out many different U.S. accents (Boston compared to New York, never mind Texas) as well as different British and Aussie accents. And obviously all the other nationalities.
I have a friend who annunciates very well and when you first hear him you think he's speaking British because of definitive t's in words like 'butter' and such, which most of us pronounce like 'budder or buter'. But he has none of their bad habits. He has a 'world accent' for lack of a better word where pronunciation is key and there are very little lazy words or slang. There definitely is a neutral world (english) accent. Mine is closer to that, though not as good as his.
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