American accents?

Hottest? Not really sure.
Worst? The accent people from Alabama have -.-

Canadian here, no real accent, although at times i certainly hear words i say that seem to have an accent to them, but i also seem to easily pick up accents when i am around people who sound different from me. as for american accents...i love them all, but i have to say the one i enjoy the most is a minnesotan accent, i guess because i hear a lot of similarities to a typical canadian accent, not including people from the east coast or Quebec of course. though i love their accents too.

i want to move to ireland or scotland for a few years so i can pick up the accent and then come back home so i can hear it more clearly compared to everyone else. lol, i know, i'm weird!.

I'm from New Zealand - we get lots of different American (and British) TV shows so we here 'Boston Legal' accent, 'CSI Miami' accent, 'True Blood' accent etc. etc. Of course how accurate the actors are is another matter. On True Blood, for example, most of the actors aren't from the States originally.

I guess there are also reality shows... Tyra Banks seems to think that models need to not have Southern accents but I quite like them.

I don't like nasal accents... A strong New Zealand (or Australian) accent gets a bit much. My favourite would be middle/ upper class British i.e. Daniel Craig as James Bond. Mmm.... Daniel Craig...

PS - to reiterate - yes, you really do have an accent! EVERYONE has an accent of some kind - you might just sound like most of the people you live near... but move you to another state or another English speaking country and people would notice!

I'm from New Zealand - we get lots of different American (and British) TV shows so we here 'Boston Legal' accent, 'CSI Miami' accent, 'True Blood' accent etc. etc. Of course how accurate the actors are is another matter. On True Blood, for example, most of the actors aren't from the States originally.

PS - to reiterate - yes, you really do have an accent! EVERYONE has an accent of some kind - you might just sound like most of the people you live near... but move you to another state or another English speaking country and people would notice!

Nobody on 'CSI Miami' has an accent that is typical of Miami or Florida. They basically have neutral American accents. It is funny to think of those TV shows representing different cities to the rest of the world, though!

... basically any European accent is hot. :blushing:

Haha, I bet you haven't heard Finnish English accent x) That is horrible. Luckily I have seemed to get rid of mine, mostly. According to Americans or Canadians I have spoken to, I have light Maryland accent Lived there for a year, so it stuck with me. I do have funny way of catching an accent from people I speak with, and I do it unconsciously. I even do it with Finnish accents :laugh:

I actually have no favorite American accent, but really thick accents makes it hard for me to understand what that person is saying :ohwell: But I guess it's common problem to us non native English speakers

However, British people always sound smart no matter what they say :blushing:

I suggest visiting some parts of London, and also the West Country. The West Country accent especially is just... well, it makes you sound totally stupid and inbred - trust me, I'm very well versed. :laugh:



Disclaimer: I AM NOT INSULTING ANYONE, I'VE LIVED IN LONDON & THE WEST & HAVE HAD BOTH ACCENTS DURING MY LIFE - PLEASE DON'T GET YOUR KNICKERS IN A TWIST OVER MY COMMENTS ABOVE.

However, British people always sound smart no matter what they say :blushing:

I suggest visiting some parts of London, and also the West Country. The West Country accent especially is just... well, it makes you sound totally stupid and inbred - trust me, I'm very well versed. :laugh:

As someone from Essex I suspect you might mean me as well! I love this thread. These people will think I sound clever!

Can't remember who it was, but someone said that they thought it odd someone would pronounce pawn and porn the same way. Everyone in England does exactly that. I am from very near London and say it. My husband is from Yorkshire and says it too. I'm trying to imagine how you could pronounce them differently and failing ..... Anyone?

I was just about to post to say that there probably aren't many non-US comments on here because while *we* hear a clear difference in our accents, to most who aren't from the US, they will all sound close to the same, or else at least someone who isn't from here won't know how to distinguish which one is which -- and I just saw a few comments on here that seem to support that.

I would imagine it's similar to the fact that most of us have the impression that every "British" or other accent is the same, when really there are many, many variations to them. We very rarely differentiate which specific accent we like because either we don't know what the difference is or don't hear it at all.

That being said, I'm a total sucker for the one I just mentioned above (and don't forget an Irish accent, too :blushing:).

That is true, I'm British and I can kind of tell roughly between some USA accents, but my husband who's American can tell them apart much better than me, and I can tell the different British accents apart much better than him. I'd be surprised though if an American couldn't tell the difference between North and South British though. They're so different I can barely understand Geordie (i.e. accent from Newcastle) and I'm from London. My husband can't understand west country (i.e. British south west) accents or Welsh accents. I struggle to tell the difference between some USA accents and Canadian accents.

In Britain even the same city can have several accents, for example in London there's clear differences between North and South London, cockney, some areas of London like Brixton and also in places around London, e.g. Surrey, Essex, Kent etc, they all have different sounding accents but people from up North can't usually hear the differences between them. And Birmingham has different dialects within the same city, for example in some parts they say "am you...?" and "you am..." instead of "are you...?" and "you are..." I lived there for a while and constantly had people asking me "Am you from London?" LOL But not all Brummies talk the same. I heard it's the same in New York, i.e. several different accents in one city.

Also I'm quite surprised that some people think they don't have an accent! Everyone has an accent, you just don't notice your own because most people you know speak like that and it sounds normal to you. Everyone's accent sounds normal to them.

And I also LOVE the Irish accent ............not that there's just one of them!! The one I like I think is from Dublin. But I'm not Irish so I don't know the accents that well.

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Was this really necessary? It was just their opinion. which they were as free to give as you were. Yikes! Let's be kind to one another, people

You may be interested to know that not EVERYONE realizes that there are different types of Texan accents. So please refrain from name-calling. It is so unbecoming.....and definitely NOT in the spirit of MyFitnessPal

I love the peeps that claim they don't have an accent... everybody speaks with an accent, otherwise it wouldn't be speech! :laugh:

Obviously there are as many american accents as there are counties and states in the USA. Most non-Americans are used to the Californian accent or the New York (Italian-American) accent as well as the Southern Belle (Dolly Parton) accent.

I can usually tell generally whether someone's from New England, New York/New Jersey, The SE, or the West. We have offices in Dallas and Phoenix and there are folks I speak with regularly who all have very different accents.

My own accent changes depending on who I'm talking to. I was brought up in Ayrshire, Scotland and have a west-coast accent when I'm speaking with other Scots. Having lived in England for the past 15 yrs I also have developed a BBC accent which I use with non-Scots which is more neutral but nevertheless distinctively Scots, but much more universally understood.. then again speaking English is technically a foreign language for me as the Lallans Scots I spoke growing up has a different grammar and vocabulary (as I discovered once I left Scotland and travelled the world).

When I speak Dutch I have an accent that has a Rotterdam-lilt. Not sure what I sound like when I speak German or Swedish, but it's probably a slightly foreign one (but certainly not English... probably more Dutch... :laugh:)

I love it when native-Dutch speakers speak English and I can usually tell the difference between the Scandinavians when they speak English too.

However, British people always sound smart no matter what they say :blushing:

I suggest visiting some parts of London, and also the West Country. The West Country accent especially is just... well, it makes you sound totally stupid and inbred - trust me, I'm very well versed. :laugh:

As someone from Essex I suspect you might mean me as well! I love this thread. These people will think I sound clever!

Can't remember who it was, but someone said that they thought it odd someone would pronounce pawn and porn the same way. Everyone in England does exactly that. I am from very near London and say it. My husband is from Yorkshire and says it too. I'm trying to imagine how you could pronounce them differently and failing ..... Anyone?

Me & my mum are sat there talking about pawn and porn now. :laugh: and yes, I mean Essex too hehe

I'm from Maryland and can't stand a Jersey accent.

Americans don't have accents! ;-)

I keeed. I keeed.

I don't really find any of them annoying. I do like a nice Southern drawl, though. Not the Deliverance hick kind of Southern drawl. More the Southern belle type.

And I see we've moved on. I love a British accent. Though I watch so many British TV shows and movies and seem to run into so many British people that it no longer sounds like an accent to me!

However, British people always sound smart no matter what they say :blushing:

I suggest visiting some parts of London, and also the West Country. The West Country accent especially is just... well, it makes you sound totally stupid and inbred - trust me, I'm very well versed. :laugh:

As someone from Essex I suspect you might mean me as well! I love this thread. These people will think I sound clever!

Can't remember who it was, but someone said that they thought it odd someone would pronounce pawn and porn the same way. Everyone in England does exactly that. I am from very near London and say it. My husband is from Yorkshire and says it too. I'm trying to imagine how you could pronounce them differently and failing ..... Anyone?

Nope, Porn and pawn sound exactly the same, in my head anyway as I'm stuck at work and don't want people to think I've gone crazy by saying what would sound like the same thing over and over again out loud!! Lol.

I'm from South East London (the outskirts) and can sound smart when I make the effort but generally I think I sound common as muck! Haha. However there are a lot of accents in England (and if you talk Britain then there's Scottish and Welsh too!) Some do make you sound dim I'll admit that much. My boyfriend is from the midlands and we always argue over how you should say bath and path and glass etc!! I prefer adding the invisible 'r'.

As for Americans accents, I like them all. Have never heard one that made me think 'yuk, who would want to sound like that?!' . Accents from up north in England however..........lol.

I was born and raised in Texas (Houston & surrounding areas). Unfortunately I have only left the state twice in my 31 years, but I can tell you that while I don't think I have an accent...or at least a heavy one...I do...lol! Whenever I would visit my dad in Oklahoma, people would just smile at me while I spoke to them...whether what I was saying called for a smile or not...lol! Same thing happened when we visited New Mexico on vacation. :laugh:

My favorites? English, Austrailan, and nice southern drawl gets me every time. I will NEVER forget the time I had to call tech support for my internet services a few years back and the man on the other end of the phone! He didn't even get through the "Thank you for calling (company name) tech support. My name is (blah blah). How can I help you today?" before I was all giggles and had to ask where he was!!! Mississippi. I had A LOT of internet issues that summer...lol!!!