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| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4174 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 1 of 51 09 October 2013 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know if this is the right place for this thread, but I'd be interested to know which foreign accents you think sound good in your native language. Are there any accents that have a certain reputation or association? And most importantly, which foreign accents are the sexiest?
For me, the best English accent has to be Icelandic. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4637 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 2 of 51 09 October 2013 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
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I'd go with Italian.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 51 09 October 2013 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
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The best English accent that is not native is Scottish (if you count Gaelic speakers). If
that doesn't count, anything Scandinavian. Dutch is also clear at least. Sexiest is always Scottish. I don't find foreign accents very sexy in general. And it is never French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 51 09 October 2013 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
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I look at this from the other way around by striking off which accents of my native language sound least appealing for me. So far a Mandarin one has that dubious distinction.
I pretty much like every other accent more than that one but it's hard for me to pick one over the other. As to what's sexiest, it's best to hear pillow talk in the native language regardless of what that is. Body language counts too. For some it seems vampish to hear a Slavonic or Hungarian accent in English but I think that it's more a reflection of a stereotype in some minds brought on by the porn industry in North America rather than anything intrinsic in the phonemes of these languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| KidRoberts Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4136 days ago 19 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Afrikaans | Message 5 of 51 09 October 2013 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
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I'll go with Russian.
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 6 of 51 09 October 2013 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
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I think the sexiest accents in English have got to be the German and Scandinavian accents.
A Dutch accent is also nice to hear but not an automatic train ticket to Sexy Town. I don't really have any associations with other accents. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jhaberstro Senior Member United States Joined 4394 days ago 112 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 7 of 51 09 October 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
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I find the French, Russian, and Dutch accents to be the sexiest. In terms of accents I like the most, as long it's
comprehensible, I don't mind what the accent is. Edited by jhaberstro on 11 October 2013 at 5:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 51 09 October 2013 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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The only accent which is remotely pleasent or sexy in Norwegian would be the French one.
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