Irish or Scottish.
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Irish and Caribbean. The accents sound musical.
Irish accents really do sound musical.
Scottish. You can really get a good swear going.
"Favorite" as in "entertaining" is definitely the Boston accent because it makes you sound wicked smahht.
"Yo that fuckin kid ova theya, yeah that one, his name is fuckin sully ohr sum shit. Anyway, yeah, that kid, THAT FUCKIN KID, he fuckin suuuuuucks" Sully and the speaker are both 40 year old men.
i absolutely love indian accents genuinely i can't help but smile listening to indians speak. their languages sound so poetic so hearing them speak english is like listening to a fae a little bit
It is actually nice when the person has better language proficiency in English. What people often make fun of on the Internet are many who either don't know how to speak English or don't know it well, and that's pretty common and normal for that country of 1.5 billion. If you listen to any seasoned Indian journalist (especially a bit older), you'd hear that faint old English lilt (from the middle of the start of the last century). You will also find that in the way Pakistanis speak English. It's very similar.
Colonisation has somewhat preserved elements aspects of English in our vocabulary in South Asia.
For example I almost never hear anyone on the anglosphere say "ta ta" but in Bangladesh it is a semi-regular part of our "goodbye speech"
Another such phrase is "Oil your own machine", I never hear it in the anglosphere.
Interesting. Got any names I can search for to listen to this? Links to sound clips?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4 this is just an example as he is kinda famous. But you can find more. Here's two seasoned journos talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4682YUnN_yQ and this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TXokRjBVSaA (I don't like this journo to be honest but it's another example of very common Indian accent - hers is actually less sophisticated as the previous ones have had kinda more "private school" upbringing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-LoNqOaEk few examples of subcontinent English
Yeah, both of the older guys seem to have spent a substantial amount of time outside India (for instance the first one is born in London and the second went to Cambridge, according to Wikipedia). I guess that would affect their accents?
Actually people who don't live outside have those accents as well. His parents actually moved back when he was 1 or 2 years old. This is really on the lines of the typical accent of people from this subcontinent who are highly educated (via English), well travelled, well read etc.
I have a friend who went to UK and came back after 13 years. Spent most of the time at SOAS. Her accent didn't change at all. It is what it was when she left at the time of her bachelors. She did masters, PhD, and post doc there (the last one is still ongoing - not sure, some people study a lot).
But I see people coming from America in 3 bloody months and speaking English in American accent.
I absolutely love hearing a woman speak with a French accent. Second best is an Australian accent.
Within the US, west coast Asian American accents. I canโt explain it, but second generation Asian Americans have this very clear and neutral diction that is very easy to understand by anyone.
Outside of the US, probably Irish and Afrikaans.
I miss Cajuns.
"Home is where you make it..."
Are they gone?
No, but I am.
Scottish and Irish.
So the really irish ones where you can't understand more than half of what they are saying with the melodic lilt is like soothing. You can just listen to it purely for the sound of it. High class british sounds so classy though.
West African or Indian.
Japanese. Their language Iโd the most alien to ours and vice versa, so they sound funny trying to speak English. My favorite Japanese singer, ReoNa. Look her up on YouTube or whatever covering Country Roads by John Denver. Just note that Japanese people pronounce Rโs like Lโs, so she says exactly what you think she says.
What little I can say in Japanese, I like to think my pronunciation is good. My penmanship however, very poor, and thatโs important to them, too.
Ok yeah you ever hear a Japanese person just get really excited to get to speak English to an American again? Best part of going to Japan on business
Never been, but I hear they (some of them?) go nuts when Westerners try to speak Japanese to them. I'm sure some of them don't appreciate it much (us going there and not knowing the language and having to be helped) and I'm sure it depends on where you are (Tokyo getting more international travelers; the further out spots, not so much). But I've heard a little respect goes a long way. They see your skin colour and they wonder what to expect, and you do a half decent bow and say 'konnichiwa' (hello/good day) passably, and end with a passable 'arigatou' (thank you), I hear they love seeing it, the effort to attempt their language.
I can't read the symbols worth anything, but I can say about three dozen words in Japanese. Can't string together too many sentences though. I feel like I'd be saying 'gomenasai' (sorry), 'baka desu' (I'm an idiot; lit. "this idiot") a lot โ and possibly catching some laughs.
Yorkshire. Jodie Whitaker's accent. Fucking love it so much. The way she says radio in the Tesla episode? OMG. I love everything about it.
Also genuinely love Indian accents, and several southern US accents, but not all of them. Not a big fan of Appalachian or west Virginian accents, Kentucky can okay depending on the region, and coastal Virginia is pretty good. Western Virginia (not west Virginia, but the mountainous western portion of Virginia) can be grating to me.
Charleston accents are chef's kiss, and the accent I was born into until I forced myself into a general American accent as a kid
Jodie Whitaker's accent.
*squeee* (โ ๏พโ โโ ใฎโ โโ )โ ๏พโ *โ .โ โง
It's so good, isn't it?
Scottish, especially from the highlands. I melt when i hear it
Scottish is a good one, crazy how different it is from proper British. Such a small island.
I like most or all of them when the speaker has at least above-average proficiency. Except American. Esp. the one that rolls a lot and for long (probably from the South of the USA, I am not sure). That's what makes it very hard for me to watch/hear most of the American content.
My favourite, though, is from my home country, which has a very slight tinge of (old) British accent (colonial leftover/hangover) and also the Middle Eastern accent (it's close to home), again only if the speaker has very good proficiency.
Louisiana Creole or Mississippi
German accent
Russian and Mexican
Russian sounds so intimidating. That probably just bias based on a lifetime of them being the bad guys in media.
Russian sounds so intimidating
That's why I like it
I really like when British people impersonate an American accent.
Patrick Stewart's, followed closely by Stephen Fry's
I've adopted what probably counts vaguely as Estuary English (I suspect I'm more RP than the average Londoner though because that's what I was taught in school). A stereotypical, badly done Scottish accent is the most fun though.
cockney; such wonderfully bizarre sounds.
I prefer peniselbow
Im sorry
Omg. ๐
Ngl I love a good Appalachian accent
Nigerian english accent is super cool
I guess Kenyan too but am slightly more familiar with the Nigerian accent
I really like the one Natalie Dormer has.
Barring that, Irish for sure. They don't speak words so much as let them onto the wind to go play.