Music to my ears, and a real pleasure to meet a fellow connoisseur of placement and mouth movement!

Although I really am fascinated by the way the voice apparatus functions in different languages and accent, for whatever reason. I think maybe it's because it's kind of the holy grail of language learning - to attain the native accent... Even though I probably would never use it.

I've got a kind of weird division in my mind - I feel that German is close to American English, while French - to British English... Well, to be fair, I should also mention the varieties of German and French, but those would be the one that are normally taught. Oh, yeah, and there's, of course, no one American or British English...

Anyway, why I make this comparison is that it seems that... on the average... German and American speakers make relatively little effort in comparison to the other group. Of course, that's also relative... I mean, okay, it basically all comes down to how wide you flap your lips when you make vowels. That's a weird idea that I have.