I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking “Britishly”. Now it’s a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don’t know what to go with.
Some points for both:
▪︎ American accent sounds “cooler”
▪︎ British accent sounds more “proper and elegant”
- Australian accent sounds more “relaxed” (but I dislike this for myself, personally).
There’s no one single British or American accent. Liverpool? Florida? Newcastle? Manchester? New York. Even within these places there’s different accents.
Dont worry about that. OP is trying to change their accent.
I doubt they have given much thought to region or dialect.
There’s not one single Australian accent either. Broadly speaking, there’s three of them.
Just throwing out a random opinion that doesn’t mean much but…I’m an American and I actually find the Australian accent to be the sexiest of all native English-speaking areas. I’m just some random on the Internet but yeah.
I’m from the US and honestly I find just about any accent that different from mine really sexy. Aside from a few standouts. I’m not a fan of the Liverpool accent, whatever that’s called.
Define better. What are you trying to achieve?
I’ve always found the American accent quite cool.
Now, let me say something I haven’t seen mentioned here: don’t change your accent. Be proud of it. Have you traveled to the UK or the US yet? If not, do it. You’ll find plenty of people finding you interesting and wanting to talk to you because of your accent.
I take what you mean with “American accent” being the accent they use on US Television in shows and most news?
Because there’s a hell of a lot of regional accents in both Britain and the US and various ones in both sounds stupid while others sound sophisticated.
Looking at you Scousers and Southerners.
Trans Atlantic accent
I love the American Southerner accent in women.
Keep your accent, Aussie accents are lovely. I’m sure it sounds more relaxed to you because it’s yours. If you have some inner need to change it to feel more professional, isn’t there posh version? Like what newscasters sound like?
Scottish is my favorite by far. The sort so thick you have to listen for awhile until the words come into focus. Not sure why but it is dead pleasant.
Glaswegian
SHE’S TURNED THE WEANS AGAINST US
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No serious linguist would advise you to change your accent like this. It’s artificial and unlikely to succeed entirely, as you’ve noticed - accents are a reflexive, instinctive thing, difficult to rewire. The characteristics of the accents you mention (what you’re referring to are probably General American accent and British “Received Pronunciation”, which are far from univesal American or British accents) are shaped purely by (pop) culture. That includes the judgment on how good an accent sounds. Is it really a coincidence that the British royalty uses an accent that sounds “elegant”?
You don’t appear to have any external reason to change your accent. If you live in Australia and talk with Australians, why would you want to sound like a non-Australian? Why do you want to sound non-relaxed?
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IDo a google search on “non regional diction” you can find some pretty good resources on how to sound more “universal”.
Actually, i fancy the Irish accent the most
You could try a transatlantic accent!
Go Transatlantic American accent. It’s the most clear and the least accent-y accent.
This is just my very biased opinion but if somebody has a US-american accent I immediately respect them less lol. It’s an instinct.
i think less of people that have biased thoughts when first meeting someone due to internal biases you arent self aware enough to absolve
you sound like an NPC might u try connecting with your consciousness a bit? you seem too much like a news oriented reactionary.
When you call someone an NPC, my initial reaction is to respect you less and be more onguard to what other silly things you’re going to say.
You were doing great in the first paragraph, then shot yourself in the foot in the second.
Completely agree with you. When I say I hate gamespeak in non-game discussions, I get downvoted.
E.g. “Australia beat Covid” Comments: “Australia gained +10 armor XP hurr durr!”
There’s nothing more cunty than calling someone an NPC
Think you’re the only one in the world with thoughts? Grow the fuck up
As an American… this is fair.
Also same.
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I met this dude who could speak fluent Spanish with a thick Scottish accent. It was the funniest thing.
You realise we have 3 accents down here right? “Cultured”, standard and strine? You could go for one of the other subtypes. :)
