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I despise the sound of English. Especially American English. It sounds horrible, like how goblins or orcs would talk. I wish I could just forget all knowledge of English and speak something more poetic, like Italian. I am sick and tired of hearing the English language. Every day, constantly, I hear people speak English, and it drives me crazy.
“Like Italian” bleh, vomited a little in my mouth there. I enjoy English, but not British English, their accents drive me batshit. I have a heavy Siberian accent which I get a bit embarrassed about, I wish I had a smoother American accent.
Brits can rot.
Not all British English sounds the same though. North England has different accents from the South England, then Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are all different English speaking accents on their own. It's like in America comparing East coast, Southern, Great lakes, and West coast California accents to one another.
American accents are a mixture of English, Irish, Scots and lots of European accents especially German. American spelling is partly old English spelling and partly simplified English spelling.
American humour seems completely German to me.
I like true English, as in the Queen's English. Love the Southern American accent. Hate it when English people go to America for 5 minutes and then come back with an American accent. Lots of teens now speak Fakemaican - as if they were brought up in a Jamaican ghetto. They usually live with parents and have chicken nuggets for tea.
The English that speak in the old Queen's English is a dying breed. Some older circles are still doing it, settling down for afternoon tea and crumpets, but like anywhere else in today's 2010s world, older traditions are getting fewer and farther between.
There is no one true English. It's a nation of accents and dialects. RP is a construct specifically to get rid of regional accents and dialects for the 'elite' so they can reserve the best jobs for each other.
As a native speaker of French I like British English but American English does sound a bit harsh and I mostly detest upspeak (Valley Girl) and that vocal croaking young liberal females are so fond of. The latter is actually nail-on-a-chalkboard cringe-worthy.
There are lots of very varied accents and dialects in Britain.. Hollywood only seems to recognise Cockney London or RP London, both of which sound fairly unpleasant to my ears. Listen to a person from place such as North Wales, Cornwall, rural Lancashire, Northumberland, Yorkshire and you will hear quite different sounds.. Some American accents sound really unpleasant, especially the midwestern ones or Californian, again the Hollywood preference!
French is probably my favourite sounding language.
Midwestern accents have a lot of variation. What part(s) don't you like?
True, but I probably find it hard to tell the differences with my British ears. I'm on about the one most US TV shows and cheap Hollywood films seem to use. Maybe more Californian than midwest?
Northern Midwest, like the Dakotas is different from Kansas and Missouri, then Oklahoma, which is different again, sounds semi Southern, but is still considered the Midwest. Chicago, Indiana, and Ohio is different again. The Great lakes regions, Minnesota, and Wisconsin has their own dialects. I like the way they say Wisconsin like Wiscahnson, and say heard like haird. Chicagoins do that too.
English has some of the best sounds!! Ch, Sh, Th, J, It is quite rhythmical and nice sounding really. Which language do you like the sound of? Arabic and Hebrew sound great, the nordic languages are more sing-song.