Favourite accents

I love the Welsh accent, and also Italian

One of the great pleasures of visiting Wales is the lovely lilting Welsh accent. Also, I have a grandson-in-law from southern
Ireland and I could listen to his soft voice all day.
I must admit that I find the Italian accent very fascinating, especially when it's a man being so nice and romantic with you, even though he's the waiter at your hotel and you just know that he is hoping for a large tip!

Geordie and Irish. I miss hearing the welsh accent now I’ve moved to the SE and I get very Welsh again when I go back to visit .

DDIL is Swedish but you would not know it, she has no accent at all, whereas a Danish lady who I met on holiday last year still had hers, although she has lived in the UK for many years.

North East accents for me, because that’s where I was brought up. I have lived in London for 40+ years, so hearing an accent from the NE, is always pleasant and comforting.
It’s one of the reasons I enjoy ‘Vera’ on tv, so much.

Outside the UK, it would be French.
At work fairly recently we had a young Frenchman explaining some of the elements of our new website to us. I have never seen a group of women, of mixed ages, so interested in the content of the back end of a website.

Lancashire, Northern Irish and also Canadian are my favourites.

DH was from Lancashire, DSil has a lovely soft NI accent; don't know anyone Canadian but much prefer it to American.

Cannot abide Liverpool accent. I am originally from Wiltshire and can lapse into a really broad Wiltshire accent when I go back or am amongst family! Have not lived there since the mid sixties but people here in Northampton still say that they can hear a West Country accent.

French, Italian, Welsh, Aussie and NZ

Belfast

I love the Scottish accent.

I love the Kiwi accent - gentler than some of the Australian ones and with delightful lilts and pronunciations. For an example : ‘hit’ instead of ‘hat’ . The Melbourne accent is lovely too.
(I have to come clean here; I have sons in both countries!)

I spend a lot of time on the phone, as soon as I hear a good northern accent, I feel like they’re going to be nice, they usually are, if a bit blunt. I like Liverpool, I find the welsh and Scottish accents pleasing, and again, they’re usually nice.

Sorry Londoners, that’s the one I really dislike, closely followed by Bristol and Birmingham.

But I do also hold many of the Welsh accents dear. These are voices of my childhood.

I love the Canadian accent....the rolling of the Rs and the As,....not twangy like the Americans but good diction ....

I'm with paddyann on this. Irish (most versions) and Italian (not sufficiently tuned in to recognise all the variations there).

As a Liverpudlian Gran I absolutely hate the way the Liverpool accent has changed over the recent years , it's awful , it sounds lazy, drawn out and completely different to how it was , I lived ,worked in Liverpool in the 60,s and it was never as bad as it sounds now, think how Paul Mc Cartney, sounds , that , to me is a more genuine, gentle Liverpool accent, I think Brookside the soap started this phoney accent and over the years it got more exaggerated and not for the best,, Rant over !!

Highland and Geordie

Not all Welsh accents though!! They're not all lilting and lovely although some are, but naming no places

I like Welsh also it's soothing

Welsh. Lyrical, almost musical and, imo, the most beautiful.

Southern Irish is beautiful.

Scottish like Sean Connery.

Soft Scottish accent like David Tennant's, gorgeous. Southern Irish but then my family are Irish, French and Italian.

It's got to be southern Irish for me. It's just such a soft friendly sounding accent and they say How Arrr yuh when you go to the bar and it means what do you want to drink and That's Grand for ok. So welcoming

Geordie because it reminds me of my father.

Southern Ireland especially when they pronounced words starting with th!
Anyone speaking English when it isn't their first language as I am so bad at learning languages.