Is there a foreign accent you find especially pleasant, charming, or enjoyable when someone speaks English?

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saccerzd@reddit

Really? I thought that would be most people's least favourite!

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TheNavigatrix@reddit

Depends on the particular one. I've heard some lovely, gentle, lilting accents, typically from people who went to British schools.

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BlackberryNice1270@reddit

Brazilian. My SIL has a lovely lilting quality to her accent, and the mix of Brazilian Portuguese and English is highly expressive.

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brit_motown1@reddit

A french woman is wonderful to listen to but a french man is annoying

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ButteredNun@reddit

The Nigerian English accent is wonderfully warmly expressive

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Healthy_Pilot_6358@reddit

I work with quite a few Nigerians and their accent grates on me so much. I thought it was lovely at first but then nope.

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It’s too rhythmical and the ups and downs catch my ear too much. It’s a lovely sound at the beginning but when you hear the accent all day (when they are talking for a living) because they’re sat near you, I start to focus on it. I’m sensitive to repetitive noises.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

You should think about why a Nigerian accent bothers you so much. Saying it’s grating just because it’s different sounds more like prejudice than sensitivity. If repetitive noise is the issue, that can happen with any voice. Singling out a specific group comes across as ignorant and disrespectful

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thehoneybadger1223@reddit

By that logic, listen to the song Gangnam Style on repeat 9½ hours a day 5 days a week. Make sure you're hearing that bad boy for 40hours a week minimum (the average working week), and don't you fucking dare say you dont like it anymore, or you're racist against Koreans.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

No ta

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Why, don’t you like the Korean accent? Isn’t that a bit racist? You should ask yourself why you have such a problem with it, really, you should.

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Narcissa_Nyx@reddit

mate no. I find that Chinese accents physically hurt my ears (very blunt and loud and with absolutely no softness or delicacy) but have no issue with chinese people - nor do i make it their problem that their accents are hard on my ears

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KalamariNights@reddit

Came here looking for a fight and got shut up like the little prick you are. Grow up.

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WalnutOfTheNorth@reddit

R/mostjudgementalprickintheworld

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

I’ll still sleep well

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Healthy_Pilot_6358@reddit

Just Wow! You know nothing. Someone asks a question and you’d only accept an answer if it involved a generally white accent. Youre on here just to have a troll. Prick!

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Anyone that disagrees with you is not a troll. Is this how you approach conversations? JFC

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humbleavo@reddit

Irish 100000%

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_x_oOo_x_@reddit

Singaporean (Singlish?) / Malay — although not sure if it qualifies as a "foreign accent" or "native dialect"

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Appropriate-Way-712@reddit

I can give you the opposite, Scottish is fucking awful

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59Nitroblack59@reddit

2nd generation Asians mixed with a Bratford accent.

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Criticada@reddit

Which Asian accent?

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59Nitroblack59@reddit

Indo/Pak.

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MojoMomma76@reddit

I love Dutch accents in British English. Super charming. French and Brazilian are really sexy. Spanish also great.

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C2H5OHNightSwimming@reddit

Ah, the Dutch. "Did you get your hair cut?" "Yes, do you like it?" "No, it doesn't suit you, it looked better before"

I love 'em, the mad feckers. Always find it very sexy when my bf speaks Flemish, only happens when he's so drunk he forgets I have no idea what he's saying because I'm A2. Those things are only tangentially related but it's 3am so.

My funniest words are winkelwagen (shopping trolley) and hondenfocker (dog breeder).

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BigBunneh@reddit

My wife is a Dutch translator, they can be so blunt in their emails. I worked for a Dutch MD of a bicycle manufacturer in the UK. He was so blunt, but once I'd learned to be blunt back, you could sense he respected that.

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C2H5OHNightSwimming@reddit

Yeah they appreciate directness! They don't like it if you don't say exactly what you mean, they think that's rude for them, or at least annoying. Also they never have fecking curtains, you can just see into everyone's house all the time 🤣

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BigBunneh@reddit

That's just weird about the curtains! We were arguing about what colours the bicycle range would be for the next year - there were about fifty models to design, and the two of us employed were suggesting, strongly, that orange was going to be a good colour on one of the MTBs. He hated the idea, mostly I think because there's so much orange in the Netherlands he couldn't stand the thought of more in the UK bicycle range. I told him bluntly I thought he was wrong, and he just paused, then a slight smile crossed his lips. He agreed, it was on our heads though. It went on to be one of their best sellers, thankfully! I still have one in the shed at the back of the house :D

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chaoticchemicals@reddit

Winkelwagen is a brilliant word. The first time I saw it when visiting an AH I nearly suffocated laughing. I love that supermarket chain. Why do continental supermarkets smell so damn good !?

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williamfitzgeraldIII@reddit

Winkelwagen is one of my favourite words ❤️

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Norman_debris@reddit

And if a native English speaker said that you'd assume they were autistic or a prick

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Incantanto@reddit

I'm pretty sure they have to change the autism test in NL or it would just pick up everyone

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ohtimesohdailymirror@reddit

Funny. Most Dutch people find Dutch people speaking English with an accent mega cringe, especially public figures (did you get that, Mark Rutte?). Others think you’re a snob if you speak what closely resembles RP.

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sj8sh8@reddit

Yeah I like English with Brazilian accents. It's not an English word but I was shocked to discover that Ronaldinho sounds like Honaudjeeo in Portuguese. Or Fred = Fredgee, or Hulk = Hookie

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Vauccis@reddit

Honestly never heard of someone enjoying the Dutch accent, but it's interesting. French, Brazilian and Spanish are standards.

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fearthe0cean@reddit

designing a speaking app and want free market research, i see?

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Aromatic-Armadillo98@reddit

French accent.

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MsMcSlothyFace@reddit

I go feral for a scottish accent. I only understand about 3 words outta 10, but i love it

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Dismal_Fox_22@reddit

I love English spoken as a second language. I don’t really mind where from as long as there is a difference in cadence and enunciation. I find it so intriguing and endearing. It gives me hints and clues about sentence structure and grammar in the original language too.

I especially love Persian women speaking English but I’m really just happy that anyone has gone to the trouble of learning English and making our communication easier.

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Electrical_Flower757@reddit

I like the way older Indian guys speak English. There’s a certain anachronistic charm about it and it’s full of words and phrases that you really hear in modern day England.

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No_Breakfast_9267@reddit

Yeah. " I'll take a peg or two of whiskey in the evening". " I come from Bombay side."

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PipBin@reddit

Norwegian and other Scandinavian countries.

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romoladesloups@reddit

Italian, French, Libyan, Rwandan

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Acceptable_End7160@reddit

I love the Tennessean accent.

I met a girl on Christmas Eve when I was on holiday New Orleans. We hit it off, and she took a liking to my gruff North Yorkshire accent. I still think about those couple of days (and nights). She’d be a girl you’d be proud to introduce to your parents.

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59Nitroblack59@reddit

We ( West Yorkshire) visit NYC twice yearly and after overhearing my Wessie accent some N Yorker will say "oh you're British?" I'll reply in my crappest Etonian accent" actually I am old boy/girl,how the dueces did you reach that conclusion " = no reaction whatsoever,most don't think there's a regional accent in England.

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moonstone7152@reddit

What happened to her?

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pubemaster_uno@reddit

Aliens

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evelynsmee@reddit

I quite like an Italian. Hard to say if it's the added bonus of the hand gestures though 🤌🏻🤌🏻

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loveswimmingpools@reddit

Argentinian. Sounds gorgeous.

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thedudeabides-12@reddit

Spanish, French.. a soft Scottish accent is also really nice ..

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anotheraccount999999@reddit

I really enjoy Mexican and South American accents, they sound quite musical. Same as Nigerian!

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RaggedyOldFox@reddit

Scottish and Irish. It's not just the accents but they way they say things. Knickers charmed right off😘

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SecretFire81@reddit

Spanish accents where they add the “e” sound to S words. Especial. Estrange.

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munta20@reddit

My friend constantly makes jokes when I say these worlds, I say space, he says "do you mean EEEEspace?"

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One-Awareness785@reddit

Irish accents are hard to beat. Even reading bad news sounds nice

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ProfessionalVolume93@reddit

Does that include Belfast?

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Radiant_Chart3163@reddit

Ooh yes!😍

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MMH1111@reddit

Chap I knew from norn iron could make anything sound menacing:

'I know where you live' 'Fred says hello'

Say to yourself in a broad Belfast accent and shudder.

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Sinister_Grape@reddit

Unironically yes

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LawOfSurpriise@reddit

Thats Northern Irish, which is a different nation.

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ProfessionalVolume93@reddit

But still an Irish accent would you not agree?

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Ambitious-Bat237@reddit

Yep. All of them.

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Conscious-Dust-4942@reddit

For me, yes.

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ColJMatrix@reddit

Here's me wha???

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eezipc@reddit

Turdy tree and a turd.
I'm Irish so I can say that.

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ColJMatrix@reddit

I'm a Nordie, so I can say that.

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eezipc@reddit

What about ye?
I'm not a Nordie so I probably shouldn't be saying that.

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ColJMatrix@reddit

Ak sure lookit, tis grand

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Livewire____@reddit

I think you mean "Beyelfaast"

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richStoke@reddit

Noooooo

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Regular-Whereas-8053@reddit

I used to work with a guy from Cork and a guy from Belfast, and one of my pals is a bloke from Donegal. All very different!

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Livewire____@reddit

You might be right.

".....and the poor man later died from foul smelling, super Herpes."

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Radiant_Chart3163@reddit

The French and Italian accents make me go weak at the knees. On home soil, I also quiver at the sound of the Northern Irish and Scottish accents.😍

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BigBunneh@reddit

For American English I'd have to go with Appalachian, like Jodie Foster on Silence of the Lambs, or a Welsh lilt.

For English learned by a non-English speaker, Italian, Spanish or Icelandic and Norwegian, specifically Neopolitan and Galician for the first two. I don't know Icelandic or Norwegian regional accents to differentiate, but I met a bunch of Icelanders in Munich last year who had a great accent, nice and clean, and I love the accent in the Norsemen TV series - they have the same uptick at the end of a sentence that the British West Midland accent has, making it sound like a question, a bit sing-song-ey.

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simeuk@reddit

Spanish accents sound nice as do Italian.

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CiderDrinker2@reddit

It's not really a *foreign* accent, because it's an accent of native English-speakers, but there's something about an educated upper class (Anglo-, not Afrikaans) South African or Rhodesian accent that is just charming, especially from a female speaker. There was also a type of upper-class Australian English that I find delightful to the ear. My sense is that these accents mostly died out in the 1980s/90s and, if they are still used anywhere, it is only by a dwindling number of elderly people.

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rtrs_bastiat@reddit

Icelandic is my favourite. It sounds slightly naive.

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saccerzd@reddit

I love hearing Scandinavians (Cardigans, Icona Pop, Royksopp etc) singing songs in English, particularly Icelandic singers like Of Monsters and Men and Sigur Ros. Something about the slightly different inflections and tones placed on the words sounds really good.

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Cyan-180@reddit

Agnetha Faltskog

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skloop@reddit

Aurora!

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Ok_Captain_9362@reddit

The way Bjork speaks is hypnotic!!! Completely agree.

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ta0029271@reddit

Scandinavian accents like they have in Norsemen

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redditlurker2025@reddit

Newfie accent.

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Automatic-Science866@reddit

I love them all, particularly French and Spanish. I also love all our Uk accents and dialects, it’s a bit of a hyper focus of mine. I’ve got a boring standard English accent. I also recently spent some time with a woman from Kansas recently, in her 80s and travelling Europe. I couldn’t stop listening to her voice. I wanted her to tell me a story then follow her back to Kansas.

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Sophisticated-Mess@reddit

European especially Scandinavian and Arab’s speaking English! 😮‍💨

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SaxonChemist@reddit

Greek 😍

That extra "h" sound they use (χ) makes my knees weak

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OMITN@reddit

Two contrasting US accents: Boston (very distinctive, albeit not “pleasant”) and sine of the softer accents you find in the US southern states like Georgia and South Carolina.

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Mr_Salty87@reddit

That’s interesting, as these are both American accents that are non-rhotic.

My grandfather was a New Englander, so I’ll always have a bit of a soft spot for that “pahk the cah” accent, but the southern accent really is unattractive to me. I know it’s probably not fair, but I associate it with racism and ignorance. Former confederate states and all that.

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OMITN@reddit

Aha! Interesting.

We were in a restaurant in Monterey recently and its was someone’s birthday. Cue the whole restaurant singing Happy Birthday. All I could hear was the heavy pronunciation of the “R” in “birthday”. I associate that in English accents with a West Country accent, which is one that is associated with rural idiots 😂.

I get the issues with the southern accents and racism. We only know that through film and TV, but (as a white Brit) obviously we didn’t experience it directly.

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Mr_Salty87@reddit

Your comment about West Country accents got me, hahaha. I love that accent, as it’s verrrrry rhotic like my own mid-Atlantic accent (and most American English accents, for that matter.)

It’s interesting that you noticed that southern accents are “softer” by the Atlantic coast, in states like Georgia and South Carolina. As you move inland, the southern accent starts to get more rhotic and “hillbilly-esque” in Appalachia, as well as like Arkansas and Texas.

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Orca-stratingChaos@reddit

Really? I can’t stand southern accents with the exception of a proper Texan accent.

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Frodo34x@reddit

Southern accents tend to be far more popular with Brits than with Americans, because the accents have a lot less cultural baggage to foreigners. There's a decent chance you will rate certain British accents (Scouse, Glaswegian, Geordie) higher than the average Brit, for the same reason.

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Orca-stratingChaos@reddit

In all fairness, I can’t understand Geordies 😅I’m partial to the Edinburgh accent. I also enjoy the highland accent in the few instances I’ve encountered it. I worked with a woman from Liverpool and her accent was nice (albeit a little bit scary when she got angry). The Glasgow accent is nice, but I might be biased because I’ve been married to a Glaswegian for 8 years.

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Quapisma@reddit

I’m from north east England and sometimes can’t understand geordies haha

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Orca-stratingChaos@reddit

My husband works in Newcastle and he can’t understand them either lol.

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OMITN@reddit

Interesting. My experiences of Texans are all the cliches (brash and loud) so their accents grate by association. I found those in the South East easier to get along with when visiting that part of the US.

I’m just back from the west. Some of the California accents are too much - intonation like a saw blade where you can’t tell where the sentences start and stop..!

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Orca-stratingChaos@reddit

After living in the SE for 5 years, I can confidently say I’ll never go back unless I’m going to Florida.

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OMITN@reddit

Fair enough. I’ve only been there as a tourist. I’ve liked a lot of the US that I’ve visited, but never enough to want to live there..!!

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WesternZucchini5343@reddit

Squeal like a pig

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NotMyFirstChoice675@reddit

Irish. Just dreamlike

Also Italians, just the most beautiful way with words

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Infamous-Magician180@reddit

I really like the way Filipino people and Bengali speakers say certain words.

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Stungleg@reddit

I've been told this about my voice actually :)

I am from Northwest England, but speak a fair bit more 'proper' than a lot of the other people here. Mixed with a somewhat deep voice, it seems to be appreciated by people.

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DustInTheMachine@reddit

Also NW England but born and lived in Hampshire for first 7 years or so. Going from Hampshire accent to living with my Liverpudlian grandparents accents was quite the thing. I now have a lilt of Scouse if I'm angry apparently (according to my Mancinian husband!) otherwise I've got a very generic accent.

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tlc0330@reddit

Kiwis.

Soft Irish, Welsh, and Scottish accents.

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williamfitzgeraldIII@reddit

It depends on your idea of pleasant but I find a really harsh Northern Irish accent sexy AF

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pocket__cub@reddit

Some of the accents from the Southern States of the USA.

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Afrikaans.

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annoianoid@reddit

I once had the privilege of listening to a French lady converse in English. She had a voice like velvet. Every man in the room fell in love that day.

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fireflypoet@reddit

Welsh.

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Herstorical_Rule6@reddit

I’m not a Brit, but I’ll put my two cents in. My dad is from France so he speaks English with a French accent which I find charming.

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Cokezerowh0re@reddit

I love Australian accents and Irish accents🙂‍↕️

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calmbabe@reddit

Scottish for sure

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bumlove@reddit

East Asian.

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Desperate-Ad-5109@reddit

“Caribbean” (any) is the most characterful and interesting.

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Narcissa_Nyx@reddit

you absolutely must see this bloke on instagram who makes funny videos where he does an impression of Princess Diana if she were Jamaican. Was initially uncertain but it's concerningly apt -> Tobias Cordes

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Narcissa_Nyx@reddit

dubious as to whether they're foreign but cornish accents are brilliant.

i also love AURORA's accent and she's Norwegian so that too. Icelandic accents in Of Monsters and Men songs are also lovely.

(also french is sexy and i got through gcse history and french by reciting my notes in a vaguely french accent)

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Square_Peg22@reddit

Can't beat a beautiful Irish lilt

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BlackCatWitch29@reddit

Italian, any of the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland), Iceland

However, I love the Irish, Scottish and Welsh accents too

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hartyfarty19@reddit

Which Irish Scottish and Welsh accents? Drive 30 miles in the British isles and the accent can drastically change.

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Jauggernaut_birdy@reddit

The accent changes every 11 miles apparently.

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BlackCatWitch29@reddit

I know that. But I like them all, hence I didn't specify any regions or areas.

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namiraslime@reddit

Polish is really nice

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Stunning-Access5310@reddit

I love the Australian, NZ, and British accents.

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richStoke@reddit

What’s a British accent? They vary so much..It’s like saying you love the European accent

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Icy_Ear7079@reddit

A thick Yorkshire vs a thick Brum sound like they are from different countries.. you need to be specific for a British accent!

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richStoke@reddit

It’s such a lazy mistake in the US. “Can anyone do a British accent?”

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re_Claire@reddit

Throw in someone from the deep south west and it might as well be someone from a different continent.

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Icy_Ear7079@reddit

Get someone not from the uk to watch someone from Devon and someone from Newcastle have a conversation… I wonder if they’d still think of a ‘British accent’. What people mean when they say they like a British accent is a standard, slightly posh southern British.

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showquotedtext@reddit

Alroight moy babberrr

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absbabs1@reddit

I’m in Bristol, you can drive ten minutes in any direction and hear another variation of Bristolian. From thick to posh, mild to hippy.

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Objective-Manner7430@reddit

There is literally no such thing as a British accent.

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thejuanwelove@reddit

thats why she said it in plural

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Hour_Ad_7691@reddit

I love it when my Italian friend talks, very lovely

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cinnabar-moth@reddit

Icelandic

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Breezerya@reddit

Spanish! 🇪🇸

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Flea-Surgeon@reddit

I met a girl from Hartlepool years ago who had a lovely soft 'geordie-type' brogue in her voice.

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re_Claire@reddit

My mum moved up to County Durham a few years ago to a town called Seaham - just north of Hartlepool. I referred to the accent as Geordie and let me tell you they did NOT like that. The more time I've spent up there the more you get to know the difference between Geordie (refers solely to Newcastle and it's surrounding areas), Mackem (refers to Sunderland and it's surrounding areas) and Durham accents. I think Hartlepool is called "Poolie" but I haven't really spent any time there to know. To the outsider they all sound practically the same but they definitely do not appreciate this being suggested 😂

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Flea-Surgeon@reddit

I used 'geordie-type' as a qualifier for this very reason! Regionalism at it's finest in that neck of the woods!

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FragileBird90@reddit

Indian women who make cooking videos.

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arthursultan@reddit

French women 🇫🇷

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Viking-Bastard-XIV@reddit

German. Mainly because if I’m at home and hear it, it means my boss is phoning me and he’s a bit of a dick!

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Japhet_Corncrake@reddit

The South Dublin accent absolutely melts me.

Spanish and French are cute as well.

Icelandic is nice, too.

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myblackandwhitecat@reddit

French accent

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if_wewerevampires@reddit

Irish 😍 and also french

People I work with like mine (Scottish), they don’t even listen to what I am saying they just like me talking 😂

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EccentricDyslexic@reddit

Welsh

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Coca_lite@reddit

Gentle Welsh

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Aileeneurydice@reddit

Why not rough Welsh? 😁

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Coca_lite@reddit

No thanks …

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Bose82@reddit

We are NOT foreign 😂

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Coca_lite@reddit

The post includes accents from uk regions too

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Bose82@reddit

You’re right. I chose to ignore that bit. Apologies 😂

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Goose-rider3000@reddit

My absolute favourite.

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re_Claire@reddit

Same. My grandparents were Welsh and though they eventually moved to England they never lost their gentle Welsh accents. It gives me such a warm nostalgic feeling hearing a nice Welsh accent.

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jdlyndon@reddit

South African has always been my favourite.

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Regular-Whereas-8053@reddit

Im going to go out on a limb and say I like my native accent, Lincolnshire, because it’s rare to hear it now, especially the old Lincolnshire faaaarmer. Look up Farmer Wink on YouTube for the real deal!

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Sasspishus@reddit

I love Aus and NZ accents

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Regular-Whereas-8053@reddit

Same here, love an Aussie accent

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Thunderoussshart@reddit

I love Scottish accents, especially from Glasgow.

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bludotsnyellow@reddit

Un-americanized swedish accent

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wtf_amirite@reddit

i can't believe i as a scot sitting here in gothenburg was just thinking precisely this.

i thought about posting it, then though nah, too niche and nobody will know what i am talking about.

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bludotsnyellow@reddit

Haha I also thought no one will know what I am talking about. I hear it more with older swedish people. The younger swedish people want to talk in this forced american accent and it sounds horrible. A regular swedish accent sounds amazing

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wtf_amirite@reddit

I have a several Swedish colleagues who I initially thought were Americans. Indeed one has told me she hates the way her spoken English accent sounds so American and tries to force herself to speak with a more Euro sounding accent but fails!

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IndigoJoker22@reddit

Filipino 🇵🇭. So softly spoken and never a curse word or raised voice.

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MirabellaJean962@reddit

Greek people sound endearing!

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LensmanUK@reddit

Eire. Their accents are fab.

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EUskeptik@reddit

I like people speaking English with a Dutch accent.

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davus_maximus@reddit

German girls absolutely melt my knees. Probably because they're really nice to me.

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

Jamaican, softly spoken.

It's just pure tingly perfection.

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afcote1@reddit

Scandinavian and French

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Wasps_are_bastards@reddit

Polish people speaking English

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Frodo34x@reddit

Especially the "bawbag kurwa" of a Polish Scot

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Wasps_are_bastards@reddit

Kurwa is my favourite Polish word lol

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srogijogi@reddit

I’m Polish, and I hate the way a lot of us speak English :P

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Wasps_are_bastards@reddit

I love the accent lol

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tr0028@reddit

Quebecois is adorable

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ninjabadmann@reddit

Ergh, for me if you ever hear French and it DOESNT sound sexy……then it’s definitely Quebecois 🤫

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re_Claire@reddit

Haha yep. French accents from actual french people are so beautiful. A french woman at the bus stop was asking me about my cat the other day (I had him with me in a basket) and I was so in love with her accent.

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Coca_lite@reddit

It’s awful

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Bose82@reddit

Russian.

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jimmyboogaloo78@reddit

I quite like German ladies speaking English. But we won't go to far down that rabbit hole.

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Cautious-Start-1043@reddit

What ‘rabbit hole’ are you referring too? I’m Scottish living in Germany with a German girlfriend where we speak 99.9% English with each other…

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jimmyboogaloo78@reddit

I like it a lot and I mean a lot...that kinda rabbit hole.

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Bose82@reddit

Yeah, I get it….

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Cautious-Start-1043@reddit

Haha… well sounds like you need to move to Germany.

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jimmyboogaloo78@reddit

Done a couple of city breaks to Berlin and Munich, and very much enjoyed.

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Cautious-Start-1043@reddit

Munich is where I’m at man… love the place! Been here, living and working, for a year. But was travelling back and forth for four beforehand, long distance relationship. I’ve loved Germany for years, loads of weekends here over last 15 years, was kind of inevitable I’d move here.

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Cute_Ad_9730@reddit

Eastern european 'Dracula' vibes.

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PGLBK@reddit

What in hell does Croatia have with Dracula?

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Squoooge@reddit

There's a very specific softly spoken Indian accent, that is just perfect for telling stories. Especially when it's a woman.

I don't know where it's from in India exactly, but I could listen for hours and hours

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yes_its_my_alt@reddit

Romania and Dutch accents give me the honky tonk.

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KatVanWall@reddit

Norwegian!

“Did you know that 9 out of 10 concerns are completely unfounded?”

I just can’t do that lovely lilt!

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kitaj19@reddit

Irish accents are wonderful and Geordie makes me happy too.

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Inner_Farmer_4554@reddit

Our French exchange students had an English teacher who lived in Cornwall for 5 years. They all spoke English with a Cornish accent.

I've also used my schoolgirl French in Southern France. Apparently my French accent is Northern Industrial. Which kind of pleases me coming from Yorkshire 😂

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Queasy-Ad-18706@reddit

I got on a bus in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, and the young man driving had the most fantastic Yorkshire accent. Easily the best UK dialect in my opinion.

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MINKIN2@reddit

Indian / Welsh. The mix of the two accents are quite melodic.

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Fit_General7058@reddit

Icelandic and western German accents

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OkCaterpillar8941@reddit

Ethiopian. When I was giving birth to my first child I had some labour problems and quite a few midwives came in to help. An Ethiopian midwife held my hand and talked to me about what was happening. Her voice was so soft and lilting and helped me through it. I don't think I would have paid attention to anyone else. I've always remembered her because of her embodiment of calm and her beautiful voice. She just had this presence.

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Extra-Aside-6419@reddit

I have had colleagues from Turkey and Syria and their pronunciation can sound very beautiful.

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GreatBigBagOfNope@reddit

Dutch, Scandinavian, New Zealand

There are also lots of English speakers who are Native American and have very pleasant accents, but I'm pretty sure there isn't one "Native American English" accent and I don't know enough about how different Native American groups speak English to generalise correctly

I also know one person who has lived their life in approximate thirds between Italy, France and the UK (split between the north of England and Scotland), and her very specific accent is fantastic

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_artgirl@reddit

Definitely Scottish and Irish for me.

I thought it was just the Irish, but then I went to Scotland and oh my...

No disrespect to the Welsh, you lot sound lovely too, just not quite as lovely as the other two!

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