But hey, husky voices can be a real turn on for some people. /r/tumblr is your destination for Tumblr related discussions, jokes, screenshots, and ⦠Like most straight guys who have heard Penélope Cruz speak, I'm a sap for foreign accents. So, if a Canadian accent isnât gonna get a person laid, an American one isnât either. It's all that you want to hear. However, the high pitch, drawn out words that go along with it grate on my nerves. (I’ll be sure to let you know which is which.). Their native language is arguably the sexist in the world, so I guess it makes sense they’d bring that sexiness to any other language they speak. Then again, I always get a kick out of people who have accents different than what you'd expect. 962k members in the tumblr community. His accent only makes him hotter--if that's even possible. Like I said, Canadian and America accents are pretty much the same, and weâre pretty much the only ones who can tell them apart. In fact, ask just about anyone who speaks a little English to do their best impression of an American accent, and they’ll likely be able to say âOh mah guad!â in flawless Valley Girl fashion. Sign up for the Thought Catalog Weekly and get the best stories from the week to your inbox every Friday. share. ... regularly for work (as I did, because its an off-shore tax haven type place) so they probably have an effect on the accents generally. Holley Shares How He Transformed Shame Into Empowerment After Being Diagnosed With HIV, 5 Perfect Reasons British Guys Make The Best Boyfriends, 3 Ways To Avoid Looking Like A Total Tourist In Paris, Check Out Meghan Markle’s Fancy New British Accent. 416.3k Followers, 4,203 Following, 3,409 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from á´á´É´Êɪá´á´Êá´á´s (@manlikehaks) However, I know the ladies like the additional vowels being added to the end of words all the time a lot more than me. (But hey, I’m a quarter Irish anyway). How sexy is Colin Farrell? Submit your writing to be published on Thought Catalog. How could you resist Hugh Jackman? After reading a book on the differences between American-English and English-English by Bill Bryson, I’ve discovered that many of the differences in words, and expressions between our two versions of English have resulted in Americans keeping the old way things were said during the time of colonization and the English changing what they say. Honestly, who cares? Plus I can’t stand the way they’ve screwed up the language. I can execute any accent from pretty much all over the world, I am versatile with the ability to adjust pitch and tone and can switch accents without pausing. Learn about us. Texans sound stupid. Here's how to improve your accent with 5 simple tricks. Recognize a New York accent by observing how the speaker treats vowels and consonants, their tone and delivery, and their use of words. Lucky for them, the only people who can even hear them are Americans and other Canadians. As for sexy accents, yeah I do fall for most variations of UK accents. The easy to hear Southern accent, however, is often called sexy by people from other countries. The youngest of the accents on the list, the Inland North Accent is common around the Great Lakes and was the result of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. Try to listen to him hold a conversation without letting your mind wander to how sexy he is. I guess people don’t really like that drawn out âoâ sound, eh? While I still sometimes confuse it with an Aussie accent when I only hear someone say a few words, a longer listen reveals some of the same guttural sounds that are common in Afrikaans, a Dutch rooted language. As for the more typical Canadian accent, it pretty much sounds like Americans aboot 99% of the time except they have their own annoying idiosyncrasies. In the past few months, I've gone on dates with girls from France, Norway, and Australia. Hanks is not like Meryl Streep: accents are not his thing. They are odd, they can be hard to understand, but Americans, at the very least, love them (likely because of Breaveheart) and that’s about all there is to it. Sorry for grouping them together, but Aussie and Kiwis are pretty much the only ones who can tell each others’ accents apart. level 1. It’s the most easily imitated American accent. Honestly, the average Scandinavian and German I’ve met overseas has spoken English so well they sound like a native English speaker who just talks a little slower and mispronounce a few words more than normal. This is especially true in regards to men (I’m not really sure how I didn’t notice it before cause sometimes the difference in intelligibility between the two can be quite dramatic). Jeez-2. People with a fake accent can irritate the crap out of anyone. You may unsubscribe at any time. If you've never heard him use it in a film before, check out one of his interviews so that you can delight your ears with his delicious words. Dutch speakers tend to speak English the way they speak their own language: a bit too much in the back of the throat which can make their English accent sound a little harsh and the women a bit husky. The right accent can turn a plain man into an irresistible one. Also, Polish doesn't have long and short vowels, so Polish speakers might pronounce all vowels similarly. I don't say "far out" "hella" "totally" and "like". Well you're in luck, because here they come. However, if I had to pick one above the other, I’d give it to the Kiwis because I like saying âKiwi,â and they don’t use the C-word as much which can still be off putting to me even though I know it’s inoffensively used between friends in Australia. Have you ever dated a man with an accent? I know more than a few people who seem to instantly start trying to adopt the accent as soon as they get around an Irish person, myself included. 2. Nonstandard native accents are also underrepresented in the media, and like nonnative accents, are likely to be stereotyped and mocked. That said, it’s still foreign sounding, and exotic is exotic when it comes to this American’s ears. Soree guys (that’s âSorryâ in English), heavy Canadian accents just aren’t a turn on. N.L. Though she's used an American accent in several films like "Drive" and "Shame," she's BAFTA-trained and was born in Westminster, London. I can honestly say that if I’m going after the same girl as a French guy, I don’t like my chances. The way he speaks will convince you that he's a pro when it comes to romance, even if he's not. However, I do know more than a few foreigners who have complimented the American accent on it’s ability to make cursing sound awesome. Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is only ever an adjective. I don’t know if it was growing up watching the Bareness on GI Joe cartoons or seeing countless Russian spies in Bond-like movies, but there is something serious, mysterious and even a little dangerous about the accent that all adds up to it being very, very sexy. For English and French speakers, however, the German accent does not hold the same appeal (this is of course entirely subjective). I don't talk loudly and I don't sound stoned. That's why we're always drooling over men that come from different countries than the ones we grew up in. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen much while I’m overseas, so I haven’t gotten to test this out. There are 51235 accent of man for sale on Etsy, and they cost $40.83 on average. Something about this discovery, and how proper (read pretentious) they sound all the time really annoys me.