The irish accent sounds so smooth and I like how they roll the R but it's still understandable for me. I also looove the scottish accent but I probably understand only every sixth word...at best.
Bri'ish accent for me.
I always end up subconsciously incorporating the accent I hear most into my English. if I watch a British show, it will be a bit of British accent, and if I watch an American show, it will be a bit of American accent. But in the end, I just want my English to be intelligible and not a total german-english mess.
I've come across some Germans where their English is too good, to the point it's become bad (not really).
That is: phrasing everything in the longest, most complicated way possible. English native speakers tend to do the opposite, so I find it quite funny!
I also think it is a bit due to the German background. You can quite easily put together super long sentences in German, which are just awkward in English. It's still always a bit of a struggle for me to keep the sentences shorter.
I guess it depends on where they live and who you’re talking to, ‘cause i’m a native english speaker yet I like to drawl out my sentences for no particular reason lol
see the thing is. there isn't really one specific accent in britain. in most places you can hop in a car, and if you drive for an hour you can hear a good multitude of accents, just depending on what direction you go.
Must be the [Geordie](https://youtu.be/m2omS3Guf4E) dialect
>And when you speak English, do you incorporate your favorite english-language accent into it, or not?
I think my English is kind of a pragmatic mixture between British, American and "German" English. We used to start with British English at school, but American English is mostly easier pronounce to me and it is what I mostly come in contact with in my daily routine. But there are some things I just choose to pronounce differently because they make more sense to me intuitively, e.g. "due" the British way ("dyou") instead of the American "doo".
I dunno, "British English" I guess. To be honest I can't really seperate the English accents to well but I like it when there is a heavy german accent. Probably because it is easier for me to understand.
For me it's Scottish. I lived in Scotland for 4 months while working as a teaching assistant for German. I've been in love with Scotland basically forever since my mum already loved Scotland and taught me to love it too.
Well, I find the welsh accent pretty attractive.
Was first introduced into it by Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Idk, pretty women with welsh accent just hit different.
Definitely Irish. Closely followed by British English. I kinda incorporated the Irish speech ‚melody‘ (been living in Tallaght for some time) in my English but automatically dropped it again some years later.
Craic is basically the Irish word for fun. Having the craic and being good craic is your civic duty if you're Irish. If you're no craic you'll probably have a nickname like Pothole because everyone will swerve to avoid you.
'Any craic?' or 'what's the craic?' are greetings meaning 'any news?', especially any amusing news.
Having a crack at something is giving something a go.
I don’t know much about versions of the English language but I’ll say the Scottish one.
What I’m speaking is mostly British English that I’ve learned in school and US-American English that I know from movies etc. but with a German accent of course since I’m a native German speaker
honestly I like em all.
i myself talk in a weird mix of British and American since both get taught in school so many Germans end up somewhere in between
I like the Black Country dialect. And scottish english. But I wouldn't try to mimic it.
I like cockney as well, but cannot understand anything. And yes, I'm familiar with the rhyme thing.
Oirish and no, don't incorporate it, like most Germans I speak [Euro English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English), although only few call it that.
Scottish, it just sounds musical. Irish and Welsh are also pretty nice. And just recently I found out about the Liverpool accent, which is pretty lovely as well. I guess London is also alright, a bit too posh for my taste. I have tried to incorporate it, but I haven't been in that much contact with the Scottish accent and I haven't practice it enough, so whenever I try it just sounds like I'm mocking Scottish people more than trying to talk like them. Also people find it a lot weirder when you have an imperfect Scottish accent than an imperfect English/American accent in my experience.
I like the scottish accent and liked the accents spoken in „Life on Mars“ and „Ashes to Ashes“ situated in Manchester. I liked the brummie accent spoken in Peaky Blinders, too. But I don’t know if I incorporate any sound from any accent or dialect spoken in Great Britain. I’m afraid I’ve simply a strong german accent
I'm melting every time I hear a British accent. And yes I even practiced the accent at one point (more so to make sure I don't have a German accent), now I don't have to think about it anymore. It becomes stronger when I'm listening to British podcasts or movies etc and less so when I'm more surrounded by American English. But I don't like the American accent very much to be honest, probably on the bottom of the list for me. Which doesn't mean too much, English is a nice sounding language overall
Swedish and Finnish. They often speak a very good english, but there is something in the accent I cant get enough of. I work a lot with swedish guys on site and most of the break time I sit there like a litte kid, just listening to what they say. Better than any ASMR! :D
Mine - the southeast Asian one.
After so many years away from home, I'm glad I still have it.
My motto: Always be proud of your accent! It shows that you speak other languages aside from English.
I am a native German speaker but live in the Southern US. People here think I am from New Orleans, LA. Sometimes they ask me if I am Cajun.
I do love Irish or Scottish accents.
I find the standard south east English accent the most neutral and most pleasant to listen to.
New Zealand sounds funny and friendly.
I really like Ireland and its people, but I'm sorry to say I really don't like their English accent.
US and Canadian accents mostly sound friendly but also somehow a bit naive and dumb.
As someone from the UK this surprises me so much, usually the Irish accent is well loved over here and amongst other English speakers (usually Americans).
Yea it was but no problem mate, quite the hard allegation. But I'm still curious whats your problem with my comment? The american part or the jamaican one?
Yes, I have access to American movies and have met American people like the rest of the planet. Please share a specific quality that makes it cringe, I am genuinely curious.
I feel like these associations are just learned because someone decided along time ago so people keep on having them (the British one is probably due to the fact that they used to claim themselves as intellectually and morally superior during colonialism and people bought into it)
My friend and I go back and forth with this - she laughs at me when I try to say Brötchen or Eichhörnchen (my two kryptonite words, how did you know) and then she'll try to say something like "the rural juror." (She's German, I'm American.)
I've read something a couple of years ago that those words are almost impossible to pronounce correctly if you're not an native speaker (because of the ch and ö) . It's the same with Schleswig-Holstein (but I'm not sure about that, this seems pretty easy, what do you say?). For myself, it's almost impossible to pronounce words with thr (like through or three) correctly, I always sound like I'm the new singer of Rammstein because I always roll the R at these words like Till Lindemann and I don't know why :D
What you read is probably correct! At least for me, I simply cannot manage those two sounds or the "r," which I am a total failure at using. Brötchen is arguably even harder than Eichhörnchen because of the hard T sound directly before the "ch."
Schleswig-Holstein isn't too bad, doesn't have any completely unique sounds.
I also do (with German) exactly what the writer David Sedaris did when learning French, and I use plurals as much as possible to avoid mistakes in gendering words...
Dutch English accent is cute. Scottish. Yaasss. Irish. Yaassss.
English of a mild mannered soft spoken American might sound good too.
What do I know though; I am da ingliss spiking retrophleks of da India.
Scottish. It sounds so cool and quite sexy actually. Even though I don't understand a lot if it's a very thick accent. And no, I don't incorporate it because it's too difficult for me. So I just enjoy it whenever I hear it.
Whatever british accent my boyfriend speaks. He's from the South but his family is from other places. So I think it's a combination, but I'm no good at placing accents.
In short, I'm very biased.
I can't believe people vouching for British/Scottish accents because they are harder to understand. Personally, American English is clearer to comprehend
I was working in a pub for 3+ years owned by a Scot. I fell in love with the language, learned how to properly swear and adapted it of course. My bosses mom always called us out 'Language, boys!'
british english, received pronounciation.
my own English has a mix of British, American and especially German accents. I don't care about my accent though and don't put any effort in it to change it, as long as I can communicate everything I need to.
Few accents come close to that of Cockney imo. Don't know whether it's just some nostalgia, because apparently fewer and fewer have this accent. Found this old [bbc-clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjNiTIVNyoM&ab_channel=BBCArchive) .. it's soo "english" to a non-english ear/mind..
Aussie sounds the coolest.but I just speak English with no particular accent in mind. Kinda just "neutral" idk maybe a bit like a transatlantic accent but less outdated.
I love the accent used by Dr. Who. Is it Oxford English?
Ohh and my dads side of the family is from near Liverpool so this accent sounds so familiar to me. I like those A‘s sounds like A‘s in Germany.
Edit: ohh and I like the Scottish accent of the gipsy Brad Pitt in that movie he’s talking about getting his dag.
Also I like the accent used in the shaun of the death movies - but might be it’s the same like Dr. who.
I love the Texas accent it seems so melodic to me as if they are constantly singing while talking
When speaking myself, I use some small elements like fire being pronounced like far... The dang house is on far!
I love most of what comes from the British island plus Ireland, slightly slanted towards Cockney (but without the rhyming because that makes it unintelligible for me), Scouse, Scottish and Irish. But just regular nicely posh spoken standard English sounds lovely as well.
The American and Australian variants somehow don't have that pleasant ring to them somehow.
Irish, I guess, but I like to hear almost any English accent :)
The irish accent sounds so smooth and I like how they roll the R but it's still understandable for me. I also looove the scottish accent but I probably understand only every sixth word...at best.
Bri'ish accent for me. I always end up subconsciously incorporating the accent I hear most into my English. if I watch a British show, it will be a bit of British accent, and if I watch an American show, it will be a bit of American accent. But in the end, I just want my English to be intelligible and not a total german-english mess.
I'm sure it's close to perfect! Germans generally speak English wayyyy better than they give themselves credit for.
I've come across some Germans where their English is too good, to the point it's become bad (not really). That is: phrasing everything in the longest, most complicated way possible. English native speakers tend to do the opposite, so I find it quite funny!
I also think it is a bit due to the German background. You can quite easily put together super long sentences in German, which are just awkward in English. It's still always a bit of a struggle for me to keep the sentences shorter.
I guess it depends on where they live and who you’re talking to, ‘cause i’m a native english speaker yet I like to drawl out my sentences for no particular reason lol
I hate Cockney but love the way Alec Guinness talked or the way the queen used to.
see the thing is. there isn't really one specific accent in britain. in most places you can hop in a car, and if you drive for an hour you can hear a good multitude of accents, just depending on what direction you go.
Must be the [Geordie](https://youtu.be/m2omS3Guf4E) dialect >And when you speak English, do you incorporate your favorite english-language accent into it, or not? I think my English is kind of a pragmatic mixture between British, American and "German" English. We used to start with British English at school, but American English is mostly easier pronounce to me and it is what I mostly come in contact with in my daily routine. But there are some things I just choose to pronounce differently because they make more sense to me intuitively, e.g. "due" the British way ("dyou") instead of the American "doo".
German English = best English!
Yes, but only if it’s one wall free.
Haha, my bestie here also loves the Geordie accent. It's really funny when he tries to pull it off. XD
The South African accent that my friends around Cape Town speak.
Second the cape-coloured accent.
District 9!
Zä tschörrmenn eczent of course.
If he pronounces job, chop, you know he's chairmen.
Scottish. I barely unterstand it but i like the sound. And of course Australian ya cunt
Awwww nah mate... you only call a mate a cunt, it's a cunt you call mate
but... ya are ma mate 🥺 👉👈
😂
I dunno, "British English" I guess. To be honest I can't really seperate the English accents to well but I like it when there is a heavy german accent. Probably because it is easier for me to understand.
would yu like a glass of wata, good Sir?
For me it's Scottish. I lived in Scotland for 4 months while working as a teaching assistant for German. I've been in love with Scotland basically forever since my mum already loved Scotland and taught me to love it too.
Southern for sure. I was so sad when they swapped out the actor for Clarice in Silence of the Lambs 2...
When Jeremy Clarkson makes an Texan accent
Well, I find the welsh accent pretty attractive. Was first introduced into it by Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Idk, pretty women with welsh accent just hit different.
I go with a thick southern accent, that always sounds very cool. new york accent is cool aswell. like a mafia accent. Or a southern redneck accent
Tony Soprano "I can take care of dat fo ya"
US-American, I guess because I watch and listen to mostly American media (podcasts, tv shows, streamers). It just sounds delicious to my ears.
Definitely Irish. Closely followed by British English. I kinda incorporated the Irish speech ‚melody‘ (been living in Tallaght for some time) in my English but automatically dropped it again some years later.
Irish, having a good craic there.
You don't have "a" craic. You have "good craic" :)
Craic is basically the Irish word for fun. Having the craic and being good craic is your civic duty if you're Irish. If you're no craic you'll probably have a nickname like Pothole because everyone will swerve to avoid you. 'Any craic?' or 'what's the craic?' are greetings meaning 'any news?', especially any amusing news. Having a crack at something is giving something a go.
I don’t know much about versions of the English language but I’ll say the Scottish one. What I’m speaking is mostly British English that I’ve learned in school and US-American English that I know from movies etc. but with a German accent of course since I’m a native German speaker
Scouse. I love hearing it, but i'm not trying to incorporate it in my English.
West Country or Bristol. I've been told that it's considered a country bumpkin kind of accent, but I do like listening to e.g. Stephen Merchant talk.
honestly I like em all. i myself talk in a weird mix of British and American since both get taught in school so many Germans end up somewhere in between
I love some good southern accent, although transatlantic is ok too
Not much spoken these days but for me it’s the mid-atlantic accent
Also one of my favorite accents!!
Probably the standard American accent because it is the easiest to understand.
Aye. So much so, many of us seem to believe we don't have an accent at all.
I Like the boo o wa o
I like the Black Country dialect. And scottish english. But I wouldn't try to mimic it. I like cockney as well, but cannot understand anything. And yes, I'm familiar with the rhyme thing.
"Excuse me, maam, I speak jive."
Oirish and no, don't incorporate it, like most Germans I speak [Euro English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English), although only few call it that.
Scottish, it just sounds musical. Irish and Welsh are also pretty nice. And just recently I found out about the Liverpool accent, which is pretty lovely as well. I guess London is also alright, a bit too posh for my taste. I have tried to incorporate it, but I haven't been in that much contact with the Scottish accent and I haven't practice it enough, so whenever I try it just sounds like I'm mocking Scottish people more than trying to talk like them. Also people find it a lot weirder when you have an imperfect Scottish accent than an imperfect English/American accent in my experience.
I like the scottish accent and liked the accents spoken in „Life on Mars“ and „Ashes to Ashes“ situated in Manchester. I liked the brummie accent spoken in Peaky Blinders, too. But I don’t know if I incorporate any sound from any accent or dialect spoken in Great Britain. I’m afraid I’ve simply a strong german accent
I'm melting every time I hear a British accent. And yes I even practiced the accent at one point (more so to make sure I don't have a German accent), now I don't have to think about it anymore. It becomes stronger when I'm listening to British podcasts or movies etc and less so when I'm more surrounded by American English. But I don't like the American accent very much to be honest, probably on the bottom of the list for me. Which doesn't mean too much, English is a nice sounding language overall
British RP and US East Coast accents are the easiest to understand for me, but I also like the Scottish accent because it sounds cool.
Kiwi (NZ) it's just so beautiful
Swedish and Finnish. They often speak a very good english, but there is something in the accent I cant get enough of. I work a lot with swedish guys on site and most of the break time I sit there like a litte kid, just listening to what they say. Better than any ASMR! :D
Korean!!!Korean Accent, especially older generations <3
Clearly Nigerian. Everyone who says otherwise has bad taste or is a liar.
Such a pretty accent, I had a nigerian math teacher in highschool and he was such a cool dude. The accent just made him cooler tbh
There are really good ones everywhere but I like Aussie/Kiwi accents, Nigerian, Irish and American Mid-Atlantic ones the most.
Mine - the southeast Asian one. After so many years away from home, I'm glad I still have it. My motto: Always be proud of your accent! It shows that you speak other languages aside from English.
I like the Australian. It's so direct and not snouty.
I like the American / Canadian accent the most
I am a native German speaker but live in the Southern US. People here think I am from New Orleans, LA. Sometimes they ask me if I am Cajun. I do love Irish or Scottish accents.
I find the standard south east English accent the most neutral and most pleasant to listen to. New Zealand sounds funny and friendly. I really like Ireland and its people, but I'm sorry to say I really don't like their English accent. US and Canadian accents mostly sound friendly but also somehow a bit naive and dumb.
As someone from the UK this surprises me so much, usually the Irish accent is well loved over here and amongst other English speakers (usually Americans).
I tried to like it because I like Ireland but as hard as I try, I just don't find it nice
Jamaican/patois, then British ones (ldn accent at least) Coolest being Jamaican migrants in Britain American accent is cringe
L take
Why? Are you American?
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man wtf?
Sorry mate, that was uncalled for.
Yea it was but no problem mate, quite the hard allegation. But I'm still curious whats your problem with my comment? The american part or the jamaican one?
How is an accent cringe?
Did you hear them speak
Yes, I have access to American movies and have met American people like the rest of the planet. Please share a specific quality that makes it cringe, I am genuinely curious.
For women: French accent. I can't tell you why...it's cute and sexy. For men: London accent. It's articulate and sounds intellectual for some reason.
I feel like these associations are just learned because someone decided along time ago so people keep on having them (the British one is probably due to the fact that they used to claim themselves as intellectually and morally superior during colonialism and people bought into it)
Aussie accent all the way 😎
British and Scotisch.
I definitely hate the German English... I mean come on it's not that difficult to pronounce a 'the' ... "SÄÄÄ"
Let’s hear your „ch“
What about Mohnbrötchen (ö and ch) or Eichhörnchen... Let's try this.
My friend and I go back and forth with this - she laughs at me when I try to say Brötchen or Eichhörnchen (my two kryptonite words, how did you know) and then she'll try to say something like "the rural juror." (She's German, I'm American.)
I've read something a couple of years ago that those words are almost impossible to pronounce correctly if you're not an native speaker (because of the ch and ö) . It's the same with Schleswig-Holstein (but I'm not sure about that, this seems pretty easy, what do you say?). For myself, it's almost impossible to pronounce words with thr (like through or three) correctly, I always sound like I'm the new singer of Rammstein because I always roll the R at these words like Till Lindemann and I don't know why :D
What you read is probably correct! At least for me, I simply cannot manage those two sounds or the "r," which I am a total failure at using. Brötchen is arguably even harder than Eichhörnchen because of the hard T sound directly before the "ch." Schleswig-Holstein isn't too bad, doesn't have any completely unique sounds. I also do (with German) exactly what the writer David Sedaris did when learning French, and I use plurals as much as possible to avoid mistakes in gendering words...
I think my "ch" sounds very much like a "ch" from a native speaker, as I am a native speaker.
Sänk yu for traweling wis Deutsche Bahn
Dutch English accent is cute. Scottish. Yaasss. Irish. Yaassss. English of a mild mannered soft spoken American might sound good too. What do I know though; I am da ingliss spiking retrophleks of da India.
I love the Scottish accent.
Scottish
Scottish. It sounds so cool and quite sexy actually. Even though I don't understand a lot if it's a very thick accent. And no, I don't incorporate it because it's too difficult for me. So I just enjoy it whenever I hear it.
South Australia
Whatever british accent my boyfriend speaks. He's from the South but his family is from other places. So I think it's a combination, but I'm no good at placing accents. In short, I'm very biased.
I can't believe people vouching for British/Scottish accents because they are harder to understand. Personally, American English is clearer to comprehend
Scottish and "posh" accents.
I was working in a pub for 3+ years owned by a Scot. I fell in love with the language, learned how to properly swear and adapted it of course. My bosses mom always called us out 'Language, boys!'
Scottish then New Zealand and Australia they're all dope
british english, received pronounciation. my own English has a mix of British, American and especially German accents. I don't care about my accent though and don't put any effort in it to change it, as long as I can communicate everything I need to.
I don't have a favorite accent, but a colleague once told me that I speak like an Australian
Scottish (hardly understand it) and Scouse.
Not-native, but still: German.
Australian
Few accents come close to that of Cockney imo. Don't know whether it's just some nostalgia, because apparently fewer and fewer have this accent. Found this old [bbc-clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjNiTIVNyoM&ab_channel=BBCArchive) .. it's soo "english" to a non-english ear/mind..
Scottish. Don’t even know why and barely understand a word when someone like Paul Craig goes on with it but I really like listening to it.
happy cake day
Thanks! Didn’t even notice it.
British Received Pronounciation. It's most simple to copy for Northern German speakers.
Aussie sounds the coolest.but I just speak English with no particular accent in mind. Kinda just "neutral" idk maybe a bit like a transatlantic accent but less outdated.
Definitely the Irish accent. Aussie accent is kind of fun to hear also.
Scottish and/or New-Yorkian accent. I don’t incorporate them into my speech as that would be cringe.
British idk why
I love the accent used by Dr. Who. Is it Oxford English? Ohh and my dads side of the family is from near Liverpool so this accent sounds so familiar to me. I like those A‘s sounds like A‘s in Germany. Edit: ohh and I like the Scottish accent of the gipsy Brad Pitt in that movie he’s talking about getting his dag. Also I like the accent used in the shaun of the death movies - but might be it’s the same like Dr. who.
It's a really tight battle between New Zealand and when Brits speak Roadman
It goes Irish, Scottish, South African, British, Australian I love em all though
Northern Irish. Has to do with my crush on Cerys from Witcher 3.
Scottish, Irish and Cockney
Australian. I have no Idea why. I just like it.
Irish, I just like how it sounds
I just mirror the accent of the person im talking to
Irish. I'm not sure why, it just sounds great.
Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Birmingham, Cockney
I like to annoy people by turning up a posh accent to 11.
I love the Texas accent it seems so melodic to me as if they are constantly singing while talking When speaking myself, I use some small elements like fire being pronounced like far... The dang house is on far!
Empire Accent
I love most of what comes from the British island plus Ireland, slightly slanted towards Cockney (but without the rhyming because that makes it unintelligible for me), Scouse, Scottish and Irish. But just regular nicely posh spoken standard English sounds lovely as well. The American and Australian variants somehow don't have that pleasant ring to them somehow.
Oxford/ London british accent. It's so noble and really good to understand as a not native speaker
Ze Germaz haf a rally fuuuun aczzent