What do non Americans think of American accents?

Abroad, American accents are most likely to be considered “friendly,” (34 percent of non-U.S. respondents), “straight-forward” (27 percent), and “assertive” (20 percent).
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Do non Americans find American accents attractive?

8.7 percent of survey respondents picked the American accent as the hottest in the world.
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Which American accent do foreigners like the most?

The most liked American accents
  • Southern: 41%
  • New York: 30%
  • Midwestern: 24%
  • New Orleans 19%
  • Southern California: 18%
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Where are American accents considered attractive?

That's right. Europeans find the accent of Americans who live in the Deep South the sexiest, followed closely by the New York accent. These rankings indicate overall attractiveness, but the accent in the top spot changes depending on the country of the survey respondents.
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What do non Americans think of the Southern accent?

For non-Southerners, the Southern accent can be perceived as uneducated or “bad” English. Actually, the Southern accent comes directly from British Received Pronunciation and aristocratic society. The American South extends over a huge area from Maryland in the north to Florida in the south and Texas in the west.
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What do Europeans think of American accents?

Europeans find Southern accents particularly alluring, closely followed by New Yorkers, Bostonian accents and Southern Californian accents, according to a survey from Global language-learning app Babbel.
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What is the prettiest American accent?

Bostonian. One of America's most imitated and parodied accents, Boston almost comes out on top of the country's sexiest accents.
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What is the least attractive accent in the US?

10 least attractive U.S. accents
  • Long Islander.
  • New Jersey.
  • Minnesotan.
  • Alaskan.
  • California Valley.
  • Southern Ohioan.
  • Floridian.
  • Pittsburgh.
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What is the most seductive accent?

The French accent has been considered for many years as being the sexiest accent in the world.
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What country has the Seciest accent?

And this time around, the Irish accent has come out on top with more than half the votes as the world's sexiest accent.
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Is British or American accent more attractive?

It was closely followed by American and Irish accents

A British accent is the most attractive in the world, according to a poll of 11,000 people in 24 cities around the world.
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Which accent is hardest to imitate?

The British Accent

The Great British accent proved to be the most difficult of all the accents to imitate – along with the regional Yorkshire and Cockney pronunciations, in particular.
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What is the most neutral American accent?

The idea that there is one accent that is the most neutrally American has been around for a long time, and it is usually called “General American.” The term was coined in 1925 by the descriptive linguist George Philip Krapp as a way to describe the accent he thought was becoming the norm in the United States.
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What are the least attractive accents?

The British, Australian, and French accents were deemed Americans' favorite, as well as the accents they find sexiest. The Welsh, Korean, and South African accents are the least sexually appealing for respondents, rounding out the bottom in that category.
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Is American accent posh?

There is no distinctly “posh” or high status accent, like you might find in other languages around the world or in British English, in particular.
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Why are Spanish accents hot?

What makes the Spanish accent so sexy: Spanish speakers have a “Latin temperament”. People associate that with passionate acts like dancing and living life to the full. Because of the seductive tone of the voice pretty much anything sounds sexy (as seen in the video below).
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What is the most annoying English accent?

Preply, a Brookline-based online language learning platform, took a survey of more than 1,700 people across the country on the most loved and hated accents. The Boston accent came out on top as the most annoying, followed by the Midwestern accent.
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When did Americans lose their British accent?

Most scholars have roughly located “split off” point between American and British English as the mid-18th-Century. There are some clear exceptions.
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What accent is the most trustworthy in the world?

The UK is known for its rich array of regional accents and dialects.
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Why American accents are British attractive?

People tend to think a foreign accent is more interesting and more sexy, says Guy Winch, a psychotherapist from Britain who's long been based in the United States, “because in general we tend to value what's less common.” Americans associate a British accent with someone being “more intelligent, more sophisticated and ...
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What do people think about American accents?

Abroad, American accents are most likely to be considered “friendly,” (34 percent of non-U.S. respondents), “straight-forward” (27 percent), and “assertive” (20 percent).
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Which Spanish accent is the hardest to understand?

Which Spanish is hardest to understand? Chile, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Andalusia (Spain) are a few of the places considered to speak more difficult Spanish.
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What is a lazy accent?

The Australian accent is often described as a 'lazy' form of English.
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What is the thickest English accent?

People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.
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