What is the hardest English 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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What is the hardest UK accent to imitate?

Which UK accents are harder to transcribe than others? This is our list of the top ten areas of difficult regional UK accents:
  • Glaswegian.
  • Geordie (Newcastle and Tyneside)
  • Scouse (Merseyside)
  • Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall areas)
  • West and South Yorkshire.
  • Leicestershire.
  • Cockney (Greater London)
  • Essex.
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What is the most difficult accent in English?

“Test” in New Zealand is pronounced as “Tist” = /e/ has become /i/. “Fist” is pronounced as “Fust” = /i/ has become /u/. If you understand more than 30% of this video, you win a prize! The New Zealand Accent!
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What is the easiest accent to imitate?

Top Ten Best Accents to Mimic
  • 1 Australian. I have Australian cousins, who I enjoy teasing with my admittedly dreadful Australian accent. ...
  • 2 Irish. ...
  • 3 South African. ...
  • 4 Welsh. ...
  • 5 Scottish. ...
  • 6 German.
  • 7 Norwegian. ...
  • 8 Russian.
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What is the least attractive English accent?

The Birmingham accent is considered the least attractive accent in the British Isles – and Southern Irish the most appealing. A quick analysis of English dialects shows that there are roughly as many in the British Isles as there are in the whole of North America – including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects ...
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Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate



What is the classiest English accent?

Some people believe that RP (Received Pronunciation) is the most standard or general accent in British English. Many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) schools teach it because it is supposed to be the most “polished” pronunciation. It is typically referred to as “Queen's English” or “BBC English”.
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What is the hardest accent to fake?

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 loved English accent?

Key findings include: 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 most trustworthy British accent?

Do you agree? Yorkshire has been crowned as the most trustworthy accent in the UK, with a new study finding it to be 'intelligent' and 'calming'. The research, which was commissioned by OnBuy.com, asked 2,221 people to listen to 15 British accents and say which they would be more likely to trust in job interviews.
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Who has the thickest British 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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What English accent is easiest to understand?

Option 1: the American accent

The most popular English accent of them all. Spread around the world by American cinema, music, television and more than 350 million North Americans (including Canadians, eh), this is the easiest accent for most people to understand, whether native speakers or non-native speakers.
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What is a heavy English accent?

a thick accent: a heavy, strong regional pronunciation, way of speaking.
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What is the most neutral British accent?

Received Pronunciation (RP) is the proper term to describe the regionally neutral accent used by many middle-class speakers in the UK, particularly in England.
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Which accent is most attractive British or American?

Of foreign accents, the British accent is the #1 most liked, chosen by 69% of respondents. In addition to being the general favorite, it also ranked among the sexiest and most intelligent.
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Here's how foreign accents rank, according to our survey:
  • British: 69%
  • Australian: 54%
  • Irish: 36%
  • French: 34%
  • Scottish: 29%
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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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Is the American accent attractive?

8.7 percent of survey respondents picked the American accent as the hottest in the world.
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Which accent sounds the most intelligent?

And Swedish accents are thought to be the most “intelligent” and “trustworthy” (24 percent and 15 percent, respectively).
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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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What is a lazy accent?

The Australian accent is often described as a 'lazy' form of English.
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What is the hardest dialect to learn?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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What is the cutest English 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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Who speaks the clearest English?

The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72.
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Which American accent is closest to British?

Possibly the closest US American accent to British (sounding and geographically) is mid-Atlantic. This is typically spoken by a US American who has lived a long time in Britain, or vice versa a Brit who spent years in the US.
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What accent is closest to English?

Closest Language: Scots

The closest language to English is arguably Scots. We say arguably as the language is often regarded more as a dialect of English than an actual language. In fact, according to a 2010 study by the Scottish government, 64% of Scottish citizens don't consider it a distinct language.
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