^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5921 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes
| Message 17 of 22 09 June 2009 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
English === Welsh accented & liverpool my favourites. Birmingham & cornish the worse for me.
Spanish === argentinan & Spain (Madrid) accents my favourites. Southern spain accents grate on my ears.
Chinese === Singaporian my fav.
Catalan === Majorcan & gironian accents, definetly my favs. Barcelona accent the worse for me.
Welsh === Northern&Patagonian accents my favs.
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paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6338 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 18 of 22 10 June 2009 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
Latvian - the dialect that is spoken in Ventspils(town near the Baltic sea).
Russian - the way Kosmos from Russian serial 'Brigada' spoke. Don't know if it's a real 'accent' or just a specific character though.
American English - standard, general American. Hate when Americans say 'eeenswer' instead of 'aenswer' or 'cheeeence' instead of 'chaence'.
British English - don't like RP anymore, prefer regional, real accents but only to the extent where understanding is not harmed too much.
And of course Aussie accent. Kiwi is also nice but Australian is superior.
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DrM Newbie United States Joined 6227 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai
| Message 19 of 22 19 June 2009 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
English: As far as native accents go I'd have to say the Midwestern USA accent is my favourite. However my absolute favourite would have to be English spoken with a slight German accent.
French: I'm rather fond of the accent of my friend who attended a French immersion school. It's not Quebecois, I believe it's referred to as French Canadian.
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6374 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 20 of 22 19 June 2009 at 7:10am | IP Logged |
Oxford English.
Parisian French.
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cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 21 of 22 19 June 2009 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
French as spoken in Switzerland, particularly Vaud canton.
Finland-Swedish + Swedish from the region of "Dalarna".
I think South African English sounds sexy when a guy speaks it....
"Singlish" (Singapore English) becuase it's such a cool and funny pidgeon. People know they shouldn't speak and the governement there is always bashing it. But it's spoken anyway.
Edited by cordelia0507 on 19 June 2009 at 11:26am
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piet Bilingual Triglot Newbie Northern Ireland Joined 5861 days ago 8 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Lowland Scots*, French Studies: Dutch
| Message 22 of 22 20 June 2009 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
My own accent is Northern Irish, which I'm quite proud of.
I also like the Estuary and Geordie (Newcastle) accents.
Dutch: I like both the southern and northern accents, though I like the rough "g" of the northern accents. Afrikaans is also nice to listen to.
French: Quebec and Parisian french both have their positives.
Irish: toss up between Ulster and Connaught accents.
Spanish: Northern Castilian.
Edited by piet on 06 August 2009 at 4:03am
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