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No point in putting on a poll, there’s so many. My favourite accents are Irish, French, Italian, Canadian, Australian and Welsh.

Yours?
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On a woman, or on a man?
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All the same to me really. Mark the difference if you wish.
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Russian, French, Scottish, German, Polish, and Serbian.
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Russian, Scottish, Irish - on men

Russian, French - on women
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Default Re: Favourite Accent?
Canadian accents sound god awful

I don't really have a huge preference for (European) accents.

I guess Russian accents are okay (I'm used to them) as well as Scandinavian, and of course English.
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Default Re: Favourite Accent?
Do we have to be restricted to nationality?
It's just that it's a bit misleading to say "an English accent" for instance when in fact there are dozens of different accents within England alone, and many of them sound nothing alike
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For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
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Default Re: Favourite Accent?
What do you mean by accent?
I think the question is a bit lame...
Do you mean the accent of people from diferent nationalities speaking English?
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english accent in particular home counties and cockney accents because I can hardly understand them and that's a challenge for me.
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My favourite accent is circumflex or perispomene.

â, ê, î, ô, û
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Scottish is the best for me among native speakers of english

Other than that, there are many funny foreign accents. Apart from the ones already mentioned, there is the austrian one, notorious for devoicing the othervoice voiced j/g [dʒ͡] (austrians pronounce "cheap" and "jeep" the same way - with a [tʃ]͡).

I don't really enjoy the italian or french accent, though. They are way beyond adding a "slight touch" to english pronunciation, they deform it completely . The german one as well, if it is too strong.
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My favourite accent is circumflex or perispomene.

â, ê, î, ô, û
My favourites: ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ.

An accent can be cute. Especially with rolled R.
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Eastern european with bad grammar. Sounds sexy when woman talks that way.
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Italian and Spanish.

And of course also Hungarian, for being close to the accent of a region where I come from.
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German, Finnish, Estonian
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When blacks speak Polish its incredible funny
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