What is the easiest English accent to learn?

But, there're many differences between American and Canadian accents. For the entire world, American accent is most universal. British, Scottish, Irish and Australian accents are pretty unfamiliar with all ears of the people around the globe. Irish English is the easiest to understand.
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What is the most understandable English accent?

British is the most likeable accent globally, with 45% of respondents stating they enjoy hearing their native language spoken with a British accent.
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What is the easiest accent to do?

“The easiest to teach is the Londoner accent, or Standard British. I really love teaching more complicated ones like French or Australian, which are hard because most people tend to lean toward British sounds or Irish sounds when trying to master a new accent,” Sammi says.
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Which accent of English is hardest?

There are many, very distinct, British accents. It's true that Indian accent is the most difficult one in the world to understand.
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Is British or American accent easier to learn?

British words are more formal than American accents . The changeable accent is sometimes harder to understand . That is why British English and its accent is used extensively in formal environment .
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English Accents Ranked from Easy to Hard to Understand (with TEST



Should I learn UK or US English?

But maybe you're planning to study in an English-speaking country. Which one? If it's America, then you should be training to learn American English. But if not, then focus on British English because most other English-speaking countries use British English grammar and spelling standards.
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Which British accent should I learn?

In most countries around the world, it's common to hear spoken English on television or in the cinema. For this reason, students may aspire to speak a sort of 'Hollywood English'. Others may consider the formality of British English, the 'Queen's English', the best English accent to learn.
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What is the least attractive accent?

According to a Big 7 Travel survey, the accent found among New Jerseyans has the least sex appeal compared to the state accents. "Poor New Jersey dropped down one place from 2019 to end up in the last spot this year, making it the least sexy accent in America.
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What is the true English accent?

The “how” – British accent vs American accent

In all reality, the standard British accent was the one that changed significantly in the last two centuries while the American accent stayed more or less the same. During the American Revolution, the English language started to change in Britain.
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Who has the best accent?

1. Irish. The Voquent community has spoken! 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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What is the prettiest accent?

According to a recent poll in the Independent, the British accent has been chosen as being the most attractive accent in the world, beating the French accent which was once know as the loveliest accent.
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What is the 2nd easiest accent to learn?

Of these, Spanish and Italian are the easiest for native English speakers to learn, followed by Portuguese and finally French.
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Which language has the easiest accent?

1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. Norwegian is a member of the Germanic family of languages — just like English!
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Where is the purest English spoken?

FOR years, the people of Inverness have revelled in the proud boast that they speak the best English on the planet. Their clear and melodious pronunciation of the language has been applauded by linguistic experts and dialect experts across the globe.
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What accent is closest to British?

R.P. The accent of the Home Counties area (the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex) is closest to what people call Queen's English, also known as Received Pronunciation (R.P.) or Standard English.
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Which English is the most correct?

British English is 'correct' where it is spoken, and American or Australian English is correct in those areas of the world. While it might not seem clean and neat to have so many 'correct' versions of a language, that's just the way it is. Of course, all of these versions of English are perfectly interchangeable.
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What is the ugliest accent?

The "Scranton accent" is getting national attention. Scranton is the number 2 seed in gawker.com's contest for "America's Ugliest Accent." It's sometimes called "Coal Region speak."
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What is the most annoying 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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What is the most loved accent?

Let's dig deeper into the top three most well-liked accents.
  • British. More than half of respondents (52%) said they like the British accent, a greater percentage than for any other dialect. ...
  • Australian. ...
  • French. ...
  • Welsh. ...
  • Korean. ...
  • Swedish.
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Is American English better?

In the main, British English and American English are very similar, even with differences in spelling. In today's world, American spelling is probably winning thanks to Microsoft's spell checker. There are vocabulary differences and some can cause embarrassing situations if you only know one flavour.
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Is American English harder than British?

American and British English are exactly the same language with minor differences in vocabulary, spelling, grammar and accents. It's not like Arabic or Chinese which have dialects that are not mutually intelligible. Well, I must say it's only a matter of preference. There's no such thing called easier or harder.
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Is British English more correct?

Short answer: No English is more correct than any other. Long answer: Language transforms and changes ALL THE TIME. Even in British English, there are many words that are added to and removed from dictionaries every year!
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What is the hardest accent 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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