Favourite accents

Spanish, Italian and most others apart from Arabic and Afrikaans.

I was born and bred in county durham, but my lovely mum in all her wisdom decided that she would send me to elocution lessons as a child, then i moved to the south for 15 years, where even with the attempts to smooth out my broad accent it was picked up that I was from the North, now ive moved back north my neighbours call me that Southerner, i listen to the accent and feel like ive had my accent stolen of me
I hate the Birmingham accent sorry to anyone from Birmingham, and love a Scottish burr

I really like an Irish accent, especially Northern Irish. I also like the Glaswegian accent.
For some, they are quite harsh but I could listen to them all day!

I make calls to all over the world for my job and I try to soften my rather strong Lancashire accent to a more neutral accent. I clearly fail dismally. In a recent call to Germany, the person I was speaking to was able to spot almost the exact area of Lancashire that I grew up in. He'd worked in the area, many years ago, and remembered it well.

TrendyNannie6 being a 'Brummie' and proud, I have never hid my accent. It is who I am. I play Bridge and going on a Bridge weekend or Bridge holiday I meet a lot of people from all walks of life. As soon as I say 'Hello' one of the first reactions is 'Do I detect a Birmingham accent' It is a great 'icebreaker' and so the chatting starts.

Favourite accents Geordie, Yorkshire and Italian.
Least favourite Scottish and London(broad cockney)

The Cornish accent. It oozes clotted cream......

I love the southern Irish accent, and now the almost rarely heard North Welsh accent. Wales has become quite anglicised over the past few decades.

Had a conversation recently with someone local based in the Liver building - I needed a translator as I don't speak scouse! She was very nice and very patient though!

Said not sdid.

I just love accents, used to talk to a man with northern accent on phone, my boss said do you fancy him no I sdid I’d just like him to talk to me LOL.

Quite a while back now our neighbour’s daughter married a French man. All the women attending the ceremony swooned when he made his wedding vows.

English spoken by a Frenchman with an accent always sounds so romantic.
I don't care what Barnier says, it's his accent I love!

I'm intrigued that so many of you like the French accent because I always used to get compliments the other way round. Although I'm fluent in French, people in France always love my English accent!

I remember teaching in the East End and a fellow teacher who was Swedish couldn't understand a word of the kids....... " But they don't speak English " she used to say. I remember yourn for yours and hern for hers.

My children were born in Jamaica and had lovely accents when we left and moved to Brum. It took them a couple of days to become Brummies. Sing'ging at Christmas. I find accents fascinating and all.have their beauty.

I was brought up to “speak properly” and threatened with elocution lessons (which I confused with electrocution,) if I used a Brummie accent or dialect words, with the result that I didn’t speak like my school friends at junior school, but fitted right in when I went to my slightly posh convent school. My husband had a North East accent (Hartlepool) except when we went to Fife, when he sounded like a Fifer. I never stopped my children having a Birmingham accent (although we lived in Solihull, so it was bit tame, ) but was on to them immediately if their grammar was incorrect. I like to hear accents, and am quite a good mimic. I like the Brummie one, because it sounds like home, and also Oxfordshire, because it sounds like my mother’s brothers. I noticed that the new buses in Birmingham announce the stops in a Brummie accent- it sounds like Jasper Carrot- and the Art Gallery in Walsall (a gem, by the way) has lift announcements recorded by Noddy Holder, in a Black Country lilt. (!)

I was brought up to hate any kind of regional accent (we weren't allowed to watch Corrie) or "bad pronunciation" and as a result I love them all!

Elis James' voice makes me swoon!

I adore the mixed accents eg Pakistan/Glasgow and that of a friend from Paris who learnt her English in Dundee . My Gran was Aberdonian so that is also music to my ears.

I agree about Italian being romantic, but for me the most seductive is sweet nothings in English from a native Gaelic speaker whether Irish or Western Isles.

I’m a born and bred Geordie and hate my accent .

My absolute favourite is the Irish accent .

My worst (apart from my own) is the “plum in the mouth” posh accent from wherever in the South it may be . Sorry but it just sounds so false.

Southern Irish French, and Cockney because that’s where I get my own accent

Love how many have mentioned the North east accent, I'm from teesside, DIL can't stand our accent and hates it when her kids say things like No, Bath, Coke (a cola) etc in a northern accent instead of the southern way of Barth, Cowke etc, makes me feel as if she's looking down her nose at us

How about Greek "my brother he has a boat " Shirley Valentine couldnt resist that

So many lovely accents, hard to choose.
A Welsh colleague used to regularly make us almost nod off, his soothing tones relaxed and sapped the will like a hot bath.
Nobody ever argued with him.?
Italian accents have to be the best in the world though, as they could murmur anything ( how much are those loo rolls?) and it would sound seductive.
I like Cockney accents, full of vim and vigour.
I also like Devon accents, and West Country accents in general.

Eeeh bah gum Ngaio1.......tha’ll be for eet na tha knaws!?

South African. Makes me go weak at the knees! Cannot bear Liverpudlian, Geordie, Brummie, Lancashire or Yorkshire. All rough and glum sounding.

But which Welsh accent?

It's like saying you like an English accent.