Accents you like, and accents you don't like

[Fashion_Princess]

Hmm, I remember talking about accents to my dad and he told me we all have it.

So for me...

Southern Accents: I like them if they are soft and sweet (preferably belles)but when they get too strong that can bother me.

New York: Can't stand it! I know a lady at my school and I work in th office sometimes and I have to hear that annoying voice! At least she's nice...

Spanish: Usually I find them entirely sexy, but there are times I have no idea what they said.

That's all I can think of now.

[victoria's_secret]

I sound like Im speaking italian when I get mad

I think people tend to pick up their accents depending on where they live or whoever you spend the most time with, you might not think you have an accent, but if another person hears them and is from a different place they sound like they have a accent and before you know it if you keep hearing it over and over you tend sound similar to them. I have seen this happen alot

haha italian! wow

yeha but i've been to other states and i sound the same as everyone else. no one says i have an accent, i asked my sister if i have any accents and she said no. but she said that she heard Californians have accents, but i don't think me and my sis do.

oh well..

[Supermodel Diva]

irish & scotish... i love those...

& those southern can get a liiittle annoying...

[victoria's_secret]

mm i don't like texan accents

but this lady @ my work came in and was from new zealand and had a pretyt cool accent

[Crackberry]

LOVE LOVE LOVE ENGLISH accents.

They are the BEST on males.

English guys automatically are more attractive.

[ILoveManUtd]

love foreign people talking english

love scouse and manchester voice

dont like posh voices

or american country

[k_dub]

Hawaiian's dont have accents do research , hahaha u live in germany, so how would u even know how hawaiian people speak?

I have. One of my best friends' dad is from Hawaii. He is Chinese/Hawaiian to be exact. He has a certain way of speaking, but I really don't hear an accent, per se. Nor do I hear a accent when our President Barack Obama is speaking, or one from Shane Victorino when he speaks. Unlike other areas of the world, I doubt many Hawaiians are natives, and no immigrant population from another part of the world settled in Hawaii. Still, remember, nobody hears their own accents.

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Like - portugues and spanish accent.

Don't like - british accent

[NYBella]

Irish, Israeli accents & Southern (US) accents.

Cannot stand Russian & English accents.

[k_dub]

I dont understand how people can say they dislike british accent, when there are like 50 different just in england! scouse talk completely different than londoners, who they even have different accents within the city! yet you united all the different variations under the british accent label... quite amazing. Same goes for spanish.. in latinamerica every country has a different accent, mexicans talk almost a different language than argentinians! and latin spanish has absolutely nothing to do with spaniards accent, who in turn change from the south, andalusian, compared to catalan in the north. In the states is the same thing, it changes so much from region to region, so IMO when we talk about accents we should talk about regions and not about countries.

in that sense I find the NY-NJ italian accents absolutely appaling, but I find very, very sexy a texan accent in a woman. I also find posh english spoken by a woman tremendously sexy, even more a northern irish accent in a lass is like audio-viagra.

I said this once before, but some people just don't get it, so I'll say it again: We don't HEAR A DIFFERENCE!!! As an American from California, I wouldn't notice the difference a Londoner spoke from a person from Manchester, or maybe even a person from Australia. Most Americans wouldn't. Plus, England is a much smaller country than say the U.S., so the accents are more similar to each other than U.S. accents, which were mostly formed by immigrants who settled in a certain area. Same goes for Spanish. We hear the language, and if we are in L.A., were gonna assume that they are Mexican. In New York, were gonna assume they are Puerto Rican or Dominica I challenge anybody who disagrees with me to come to the West Coast, and go to Seattle, San Francisco, and then come to the neck of the woods, L.A.. Go ahead to San Diego while you're at it. Tell us if you hear a distinct difference. And make sure you talk to a person who was born and raised in that area.

[k_dub]

Mentioning smurfs, dragons eating American tourists, and King Arthur. Really, who's the idiot with the THICK HEAD HERE?! However, thanks for making my point for me. Since you are British, it is easy for you to differentiate between the accents in England. Us outsiders are not gonna notice those differences, so they are all gonna sound fairly similar. Like I said, come to the West Coast and differentiate between the accents from people in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

As for the Spanish accents, which I usually hear on a daily basis(I actually grew up in a big, multicultural city called Los Angeles, maybe you heard of it ), same thing. the majority of Spanish speaking people hear are from El Salvador or Mexico. However, I had a friend who was from Colombia, and when he spoke Spanish, besides his voice, I didn't hear much of a difference. I don't care which way you look at it. If it's your mother tounge, you can tell the difference. If its not, not so much. We may share a common language, but there is obviously a difference between American English and I guess, Original English. The slang can also point out what country or region you are from as well. Good luck with your arrogance, you definately got the accent to go along with it. I don't know with English accent it is, but I know it's English, and they all sound snooty. <_<

[k_dub]

I don't know man. Maybe you are a multilingual person, and maybe if meet enough people and converse with them, we can tell the difference. However, if I talked to you, I would know probably know what country you are from, but not which part. The majority of people are not gonna notice a difference the 1st time around. As far as Spanish goes, I said what I had to say about that. I don't speak the language, so I really don't pay much attention to the accent. After all, we ain't be able to understand each other anyway, right?

It's all good, mayn.

[Lolita]

I love latin accents, also Italian.

[Hel]

I love Spanish & British accents

I like French accent

I hardly understand Ireland accent but it's not bad =)

I don't really like German accent, it sounds rude =(

and i do not like the Russians talking in other languages but I don't think that the problem in accent =D 'cause I'm Russian

[k_dub]

I don't know man. Maybe you are a multilingual person, and maybe if meet enough people and converse with them, we can tell the difference. However, if I talked to you, I would know probably know what country you are from, but not which part. The majority of people are not gonna notice a difference the 1st time around. As far as Spanish goes, I said what I had to say about that. I don't speak the language, so I really don't pay much attention to the accent. After all, we ain't be able to understand each other anyway, right?

It's all good, mayn.

yes, I mean Im not versed in american accents so I couldnt quite identify certain midwest accents, but I'd know which ones sound different. You wouldnt know Im a Mancunian but Im sure if I had next to me a scouser and you could hear us both speaking you'd know we were from different regions and had completely different accents, you wouldnt know one was from manchester and the other from liverpool, but our different way of speaking would give away how we arent from the same part of the world.

One accent and culture that fascinates me from the US is the cajun and bayou country, they speak a very peculiar form of hybrid french that I suppose must sound a little like quebecois (Im guessing here, absolutely no certainty about it). You make a good point about immigrants having a hand in how most regional accents sounds in the US, thats quite interesting actually.

And I appreciate your graciousness, cheers mate (as we say in the UK/aussieland)

Interesting point you bring up on how the Cajuns speak. I know many of them speak Cajun French, and they are desendants of the French Canadians who chose to relocate to Louisiana. As far as having immigrants having a hand in how regional accents have in the U.S., we also have sports teams that refect the majority of immigrants in that region, such as the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Vikings.

[MattLoveModels]

The Philadelphia accent is the worst accent I've ever heard. At least New York accent has some kind of coolness about it. Philly people just sound trashy. Thankfully I made sure I didn't speak like that.

[COP11]

Scottish and Irish accents I love!

[FashionDream]

English Accents.. i like

[Cult Icon]

Overall, there are some very good UK accents, but some terrible ones.

Australian accent is good. French accent good. African accents sometimes good. German accent sometimes 'interesting'.

Eastern European accents nope, East Asian accents, Mexican accents (N)

American accents? Pretty neutral on them, I myself have a 'Waspy' NE accent.

Southern accent can be good, but the strong ones are overpowering. NY/Phily accents (N)

New Zealand accent (Y)

[Lyon]

English Accents.. i like