Irish and Caribbean. The accents sound musical.
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"Favorite" as in "entertaining" is definitely the Boston accent because it makes you sound wicked smahht.
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
I miss Cajuns.
Within the US, west coast Asian American accents. I canβt 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.
I absolutely love hearing a woman speak with a French accent. Second best is an Australian accent.
Scottish, especially from the highlands. I melt when i hear it
I like most or all of them when the speaker has at least above-average proficiency. Except American. Esp. the one that rolls a lot and for long (probably from the South of the USA, I am not sure). That's what makes it very hard for me to watch/hear most of the American content.
My favourite, though, is from my home country, which has a very slight tinge of (old) British accent (colonial leftover/hangover) and also the Middle Eastern accent (it's close to home), again only if the speaker has very good proficiency.
Japanese. Their language Iβd 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 Rβs like Lβs, 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 thatβs important to them, too.
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
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 β and possibly catching some laughs.
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.
cockney; such wonderfully bizarre sounds.
Russian and Mexican
Nigerian english accent is super cool
I guess Kenyan too but am slightly more familiar with the Nigerian accent
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
I really like the one Natalie Dormer has.
Barring that, Irish for sure. They don't speak words so much as let them onto the wind to go play.
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