been in the US since I was six, told I have an accent and sound nasally

If it really bothers you and you have the money, you could try seeing a speech therapist.

You sound young, but not prepubescent. If I had to guess, I'd say teens or 20s. I'm not hearing anything particularly nasal, either. The accent is very slight, but what stands out to me is that some vowels sound slightly off (the hand in handmade sounds more like hend, for example) and you don't sound completely comfortable some instances of multiple consonants where native speakers will often swallow one of the letters. In "gifts," you're trying to pronounce f, t, and s equally, but most native speakers will kind of swallow the t so it's not fully enunciated.

I can hear hints of that, definitely. I’d say either a girl in the middle of puberty or someone who immigrated at a very young age. Try pulling your tongue more away from the roof of your mouth when making your vowel sounds, and opening your mouth a bit wider in general. That said, I think given your age and assuming your parents have a much mire noticeable egyptian accent, you’re fine and don’t need to change anything. I can understand you better than I can my own mother sometimes.

While I can tell you have a slight foreign accent, I wouldn't worry about it. So many people speak in different accents here, and you are very clear, I don't have to concentrate like I would with someone speaking in a heavy accent. I would say the main giveaway is that you say each word distinctly and properly. Your words don't run into each other. Of course, that could be the result of you reading your words (I assume you are reading statements to record).

stop thinking and speaking in Arabic. You're subconsciously defaulting to Arabic phonemes even though you're speaking a different language. It's the same reason you'll hear American tourists in Egypt say something in Arabic that sounds funny or off.

I hear an accent, but it is normal for people who lived elsewhere to have some echo of their home/ early sounds. I knew people whose parents were from the former chekolslovakia( sp?), kids were born here, and the kids ended certain sounds too hard. Their -ing sounded slightly awkward. I listened to the last one. Your accent is very pleasant and interesting.Your pattern is still slightly musical from Arabic, and not flattened vowels (best description of American vowel pronunciation on vowels I can think of, sorry. I think someone else described it more technically.) Do you have a friend/teacher you can try to sound like in your area? Listen to a non celebrity(they get lots of vocal coaching for both acting purposes or to cover up where they came from) an "average joe" you would like to sound like, try to listen to their speech patterns and vowels. Just make sure they say nuclear and similar correctly.~~Shiver of horror~~ I think you sound good. We Americans are going to have a whole generation of kids influenced by Brisbane-accented Bluey, and I love it.

I think people are just being unkind. You sound your age, not like a prepubescent kid. Everyone’s voice is varying degrees of “nasal,” but even so yours doesn’t strike me as overly nasally.  There’s nothing wrong with having an accent! It’s part of who you are. Yours is pleasant and easy to understand, so don’t let other people make you feel bad about yourself because of it. I bet they would sound a lot worse trying to pronounce Arabic than you do speaking English. 

You sound fine, if I interacted with you briefly in real life, I probably wouldn't have thought of you as having an accent. (Or maybe it's the smallest touch of an accent, like a person who grows up in a house with immigrant parents.) Because I was trying to listen for an accent, what stood out is the cr- and gr- sounds. The R sounds a little off. The other thing is the vowels don't glide around as much as they should. A few years ago I realized that's what stands out about German accents and I'm working on French as a hobby and French does it too. In English the vowels are all glide-y or smear through a few different sounds. Germans are precise and German sounds "blocky" to my English-speaking ears. It's because German vowels are constant whereas English vowels are flexible and glide around, so then Germans speaking English sound 'off' because they speak their vowels as constant/flat sounds. Like the word "sky" is somewhat like *skuh-ayy-eee* and not just *sk'eye*

You definitely have an accent but it's rather light and pleasant sounding. I don't think you sound nasal.

I am native of American English and I don't notice any sort of foreign accent. Your voice is very typical and quite similar to people I know irl. I'm not sure why other people think you have a foreign accent. Maybe it's just a dialectal difference? What part of the US are you from?

You have an American accent

People from California say midwestern people have a nasally accent. Don’t worry about assholes like that.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2242534/episodes/14635819

Honestly your accent is pretty subtle. I can hear it, most definitely. But it kinda blends together with an accent of someone who was born in the US. It's somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't worry about comments about it. You speak very clearly and it's easy to understand you. That's all you need worry about.

sounds fine to me

You sound slightly off, but my first guess would have been that you just have a very monotone and slightly nasally voice, not that you weren’t a native English speaker. It kind of reminds me of the voice inflection a lot of high-functioning autistic people have (no offense).

I dunno about the 'prebuescent' thing unless you're identifying as male because based on the recording I would presume you are female. Yes, you have what I would think of as an arabic accent. What can you do? You'll need to actually practice I'd imagine. Probably speech therapists have techniques to help you but you could also study YouTube videos for accents: there are loads of people out there who do in-depth videos on how to do, say, a Texan accent. I've studied them before for when I was running an Aliens-inspired RPG game and I wanted to read out the opening drill sargeant's piece in that sort of accent. I'll tell you: I SUCKED but hey. I only studied it for a bit. But those videos go deep on what it is that makes an accent sound 'right'.

Your voice is fine. You have an obvious accent, but it is not so strong that it is a barrier to comprehension. The thing I notice most is that you sound very tight. Natural American English speakers have their mouths very loose when they talk. As a result, a lot of your vowels are shifted, e.g. very becomes viry, when becomes whin, about becomes abut, etc.

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