Obviously lots of accents/dialects based on location like American southern, Australian or Jamaican. Anything like that is an acceptable answer. As well as non native english speaker’s spoken english sound, like a Latino/a person.

    • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      22 days ago

      “Yo that fuckin kid ova theya, yeah that one, his name is fuckin sully ohr sum shit. Anyway, yeah, that kid, THAT FUCKIN KID, he fuckin suuuuuucks” Sully and the speaker are both 40 year old men.

  • caninesofthesavior@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    22 days ago

    i absolutely love indian accents genuinely i can’t help but smile listening to indians speak. their languages sound so poetic so hearing them speak english is like listening to a fae a little bit

    • sifar@lemmy.ml
      4·
      22 days ago

      It is actually nice when the person has better language proficiency in English. What people often make fun of on the Internet are many who either don’t know how to speak English or don’t know it well, and that’s pretty common and normal for that country of 1.5 billion. If you listen to any seasoned Indian journalist (especially a bit older), you’d hear that faint old English lilt (from the middle of the start of the last century). You will also find that in the way Pakistanis speak English. It’s very similar.

      • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
        3·
        21 days ago

        Colonisation has somewhat preserved elements aspects of English in our vocabulary in South Asia.

        For example I almost never hear anyone on the anglosphere say “ta ta” but in Bangladesh it is a semi-regular part of our “goodbye speech”

        Another such phrase is “Oil your own machine”, I never hear it in the anglosphere.

      • 404@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        Interesting. Got any names I can search for to listen to this? Links to sound clips?

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    81·
    22 days ago

    Within the US, west coast Asian American accents. I can’t explain it, but second generation Asian Americans have this very clear and neutral diction that is very easy to understand by anyone.

    Outside of the US, probably Irish and Afrikaans.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    81·
    22 days ago

    I absolutely love hearing a woman speak with a French accent. Second best is an Australian accent.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    61·
    22 days ago

    Japanese. Their language I’d the most alien to ours and vice versa, so they sound funny trying to speak English. My favorite Japanese singer, ReoNa. Look her up on YouTube or whatever covering Country Roads by John Denver. Just note that Japanese people pronounce R’s like L’s, so she says exactly what you think she says.

    What little I can say in Japanese, I like to think my pronunciation is good. My penmanship however, very poor, and that’s important to them, too.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      21 days ago

      Ok yeah you ever hear a Japanese person just get really excited to get to speak English to an American again? Best part of going to Japan on business

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Never been, but I hear they (some of them?) go nuts when Westerners try to speak Japanese to them. I’m sure some of them don’t appreciate it much (us going there and not knowing the language and having to be helped) and I’m sure it depends on where you are (Tokyo getting more international travelers; the further out spots, not so much). But I’ve heard a little respect goes a long way. They see your skin colour and they wonder what to expect, and you do a half decent bow and say ‘konnichiwa’ (hello/good day) passably, and end with a passable ‘arigatou’ (thank you), I hear they love seeing it, the effort to attempt their language.

        I can’t read the symbols worth anything, but I can say about three dozen words in Japanese. Can’t string together too many sentences though. I feel like I’d be saying ‘gomenasai’ (sorry), ‘baka desu’ (I’m an idiot; lit. “this idiot”) a lot — and possibly catching some laughs.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    61·
    22 days ago

    So the really irish ones where you can’t understand more than half of what they are saying with the melodic lilt is like soothing. You can just listen to it purely for the sound of it. High class british sounds so classy though.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
    51·
    22 days ago

    Yorkshire. Jodie Whitaker’s accent. Fucking love it so much. The way she says radio in the Tesla episode? OMG. I love everything about it.

    Also genuinely love Indian accents, and several southern US accents, but not all of them. Not a big fan of Appalachian or west Virginian accents, Kentucky can okay depending on the region, and coastal Virginia is pretty good. Western Virginia (not west Virginia, but the mountainous western portion of Virginia) can be grating to me.

    Charleston accents are chef’s kiss, and the accent I was born into until I forced myself into a general American accent as a kid