How is the accent from British Columbia? What american states sounds like the one from BC?

Canada doesn't have regional accents, to any degree. (The exceptions being Cape Breton and Newfoundland.)

In Canada, accent is more about social class.

The "lower" class (and I use that term in an economical sense...not in terms of worth or value) tend to speak in a manner like the characters Bob and Doug from SCTV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5JWjWgTFc

The middle and upper (English-speaking) classes speak like Peter Jennings (Canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRfdgU2Q4E or John Roberts (Canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58igVWapjR8 or Peter Mansbridge (Canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfiIJ57zCf0 ...and on and on.

It has been said that American newscasters are expected to drop their local accents and speak in what has been called "Canadian English"...which is the similar-sounding, almost accent-less way of speaking English in mainstream media. The only exception is the "out" sound which, I have to admit, we Canadians do tend to pronounce as "oat" (but not "oot" as Americans like to jest). (So, "going out" tends to come out more like, "going oat.")

Lower, middle, and upper class Canadians sound identical from Vancouver to Halifax (again, with a few coloquial expressions...but pronounced no differently than a visitor of the same class would pronounce them).

I have lived all across Canada (and in the U.S.) and, with the exceptions of Cape Breton & Newfoundlanders, those using coloquial expressions, and to some degree French-Canadians, I would be unable to definitively determine where someone is from, in Canada. Someone from Vancouver will sound exactly like someone from Toronto or Fredericton.

In the U.S., I do think there's little discernable difference between a middle class Californian and a middle class Canadian. When I lived in Chicago, their accent was noticeably different than mine, and that of most of their national newscasters. (Bob is pronounced "Bab" and "cotton" is "cattan," for example.) In New York, there isn't just an obvious accent, it's even distinguishable from other areas WITHIN the city of New York!

(I'm tempted to go off on a rant about xenophobia, and how Canadians probably all speak the same way because we are so traditionally un-xenophobic...which even our map proves.)

As I said, you might pick up "common" English usage, which would be frowned-upon by more educated people. Saying things like "looney" and "twony/tooney" (denoting the one and two dollar coins); saying "eh" a lot; using nonexistent words like "alls" or "ain't," etc.; using double negatives, etc., will all make better-educated people kind of snicker and want to correct you.

It's no different than in Brazil, though. If I learn phrases from locals hanging around a cheap bar or cafe, I'm likely to speak quite a bit differently than Brazilian doctors, bankers, or physicists.

Good luck! ...And bem vindo!

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Americans have lots of diffirent accents. From the Southern drawl the the Yankee twang they are all unique in their own way. Don't forget that we Brits have a lot of different accents as well. Not just NATIONAL accents but regional accents as well. Scotland in particular has a great variety from the Glesga growl the the soft Highland lilt. (Glesga = Glasgow) EDIT. I've looked up some past questions about American accents and have added the llinks to the source box.

The statement that there are no regional dialects in Canada is false. Obviously you can divide up dialects in different ways, from the one extreme of lumping all North American English into one dialect, or dividing it up into hundreds based on tiny differences in phonology and vocabulary.

Personally, I would divide it up into five: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Rest of Atlantic Canada, Ottawa Valley, and Central Canada.

States in the USA that speak like British Columbia are Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California.

Vancouver Accent