Does the American accent or British accent sound better? (monyet.cc)

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I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking "Britishly". Now it's a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don't know what to go with.

Some points for both:

▪︎ American accent sounds "cooler"

▪︎ British accent sounds more "proper and elegant"

Australian accent sounds more "relaxed" (but I dislike this for myself, personally).

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[-] Pantoffel@feddit.de 30 points 10 months ago

I think to have this settled once and for all: The German accent is the best of them all.

[-] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Girls speaking German are rarely sexy sounding, although better than Portuguese.

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Man I recently met a beautiful Tanzanian woman who had an amazingly beautiful accent when she spoke English. It sounded regal and dignified. I had a huge crush. Kenyan accents are great too. I think we focus too much on western accents

[-] MacAttak8@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I agree that African accents can be awesome. I’m pretty ignorant of regional accent or if they are more of a national accent but growing up I had a buddy from Zimbabwe who’s parents had an amazing accent when speaking English.

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