It doesn't all that bad to speak with accent,and it's tough to eliminate the accent no matter how hard you try,nevertheless,the exception is that there are some talents can speak exactly like a native,Your ideas to chat with people from around the world who're speaking with strong accents is impressive,you can graduately get used to it as time going ahead,i need share with you a fact that even American speak with accents too,the standard American English is the English,which i think,can be simply described as a language used by educated people in the states(not exactly),the funny thing is even some native American,sometimes,can't understand people from other cities in U.S.A,a friend of mine said