Worst international accent?

mr_fegelien

Consider anything outside the Irish, English, and European accents (French, Spanish, Italian, German) international.

For me it has to be the Indian and Russian accent. Something about their drawl is just spine chilling.

Omackeral

De bist is de Sith Ifrikan iksent.

Tabnabs

Nasally, whiny American accent. Makes me want to punch them in the face, every time.

DoozerT6

Omackeral wrote: »

De bist is de Sith Ifrikan iksent.

"Diplomittik Immyunitty"

MonkeyTennis

You havent lived until had a russian woman screaming at you

whiskeyman

Northie.

murpho999

Australian for me. Hear them say "I parked the car in the car park and then went to a bar". Would go through you.

Also, south England/London "geezer" accent. Sounds awful.

mr_fegelien

Tabnabs wrote: »

Nasally, whiny American accent. Makes me want to punch them in the face, every time.

I have an American accent and have been told it sounds gay (I'm a male in my 20s). Why the disdain for American accents???

Dutch:
https://youtu.be/wV9HP5J4g4Y

DoozerT6

murpho999 wrote: »

Australian for me. Hear them say "I parked the car in the car park and then went to a bar". Would go through you.

Also, south England/London "geezer" accent. Sounds awful.

Like the one London rappers have, ugh!

Raconteuse

No genuine accent bothers me. I find accents really interesting.

At a push, the really harsh London accent I suppose - where every sentence is punctuated by "yeah?"

But the most annoying by far for me is not international - it's the sythe Dublin one.

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Why the disdain for American accents???

They're just being silly. As if they don't watch plenty of American tv and film and don't even notice. And "American accent" - there are hundreds of them.

Omackeral

murpho999 wrote: »

Australian for me. Hear them say "I parked the car in the car park and then went to a bar".

That sentence in Boston would be better. Or Drogheda for that matter.

Mint Sauce

Cork Boy!

mr_fegelien

Raconteuse wrote: »

They're just being silly. As if they don't watch plenty of American tv and film and don't even notice. And "American accent" - there are hundreds of them.

I think they mean the general american/midwestern accent that a lot of American s have. It is nasally but it can also be pleasant as well.

murpho999

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Cork Boy!

International?

Omackeral

murpho999 wrote: »

International?

In fairness, the OP is all over the gaff. Has discounted European accents but then in the next breath lists Russian as an option. Should've just said non-Irish and non-UK.... or non British Isles to rile the lads up in true AH fashion.

Mint Sauce

murpho999 wrote: »

Australian for me. Hear them say "I parked the car in the car park and then went to a bar". Would go through you.

Also, south England/London "geezer" accent. Sounds awful.

murpho999 wrote: »

International?

Says the poster who mentioned the South of England/London!

Perhaps you should read the OP again as well.

murpho999

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Says the poster who mentioned the South of England/London!

Perhaps you should read the OP again as well.

Fair enough, but for me UK accents are international as well.

Gregor Samsa

The accent of the town of Shakhimardan in Uzbekistan, an exclave surrounded entirely by Kyrgyzstan. The way they say "Sut chirigan, uni ichmang!" would curdle milk.

MarkY91

If I look at it from dating a woman wise, accents I cannot tolerate would be...

Lancashire accents...think coronation Street

Most American accents in real life annoy the **** out of me. In movies, they're fine.

Indian... I would end up laughing at half of the things they say.

French...sounds so ugly to me.

Nigerian accent... Both male and females usually sound like they're being aggressive and argueing even if they're not.




That's all I can think of right now. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

con___manx1

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I have an American accent and have been told it sounds gay (I'm a male in my 20s). Why the disdain for American accents???

Are u from america? Or just grew up watching the Disney channell

mr_fegelien

con___manx1 wrote: »

Are u from america? Or just grew up watching the Disney channell

I used to live there for 2 years but I've been here 11 years. Lived in Tanzania for 8 years since birth.

Stevieluvsye

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I used to live there for 2 years but I've been here 11 years. Lived in Tanzania for 8 years since birth.

Mate of mine went to Liverpool for a weekend and picked up the accent

Oh and the worst has to be Nigerian

I'LL KILL YOU. I'LL KILL YOU ALL

seamus

Depends on the gender of the speaker to be honest.

I find men speaking in the stereotypical Indian/Pakistan accent quite irritating, but women not so much. They speak much more softly and clearly.

Australian accent on women though, a million times more annoying than Aussie men. Just barely worse than Californian women.

DoozerT6

MarkY91 wrote: »

If I look at it from dating a woman wise, accents I cannot tolerate would be...

Lancashire accents...think coronation Street

Most American accents in real life annoy the **** out of me. In movies, they're fine.

Indian... I would end up laughing at half of the things they say.

French...sounds so ugly to me.

Nigerian accent... Both male and females usually sound like they're being aggressive and argueing even if they're not.




That's all I can think of right now. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

I've thought that too

Also, for some reason women speaking (I think) Polish to men always sound petulant to me, like a 5 year old in a shop who's been told they're not getting any sweets and is trying to pester their parent into buying them something.

partyguinness

The London accent. Think Adele and then she opens her mouth to talk....(shudders).

I have to admit I am not gone on the German accent.

partyguinness

Yeah I have clients from west Africa and bloody hell....

Even hearing them tell you they are in good form sounds like you are about to get your head kicked in.

DellyBelly

The Midlands for me..terrible. They all sound like they live on a halting site and are finding out as much about you so they ca nrob you...

LirW

Dutch, hands down.

smelly sock

Canadian. It's just bland and plain annoying. The woman on Today FM goes through me no end.

El Tarangu

A crying shame is the fact that Italian women are very beautiful, but then their accent is awful (when speaking either English or Italian).

A strong Dutch accent is very off-putting as well, as mentioned by a previous poster.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

The "California Valley girl' type accent is grating. But maybe that's to do with me associating it with privilege and ignorance.

The London (think North) one of innit, blud, wicked, massive, blud.

Closer to home. The Louth accent is an ugly mess. Hai.

Badly Drunk Boy

Raconteuse wrote: »

They're just being silly. As if they don't watch plenty of American tv and film and don't even notice. And "American accent" - there are hundreds of them.

A 'nasally, whiny' American accent doesn't sound as bad if it's surrounded by other similar nasally, whiny American accents but add it with a group of Irish people talking (for example) and it sounds a lot worse. Then again, an English accent in a group of Americans can sound like they're hamming it up, but it's just due to the contrast.

I see sheep

Perth

Stevieluvsye

Mongolian isn't easy on the ears

wakka12

Have to agree with indian accent. Accents generally dont bother me but indian accents are the only one that can lessen my attraction to somebody

Paddy Cow

murpho999 wrote: »

Australian for me.

Some of them have a high pitch inflection at the end of a sentence, so every sentence ends up sounding like a question. New Zealanders sound like Aussies on helium.

Paddy Cow

This guy does loads of accents. Irish one is first.

namloc1980

New Zealand accent is dreadful.

Mad_maxx

New Zealand

namloc1980

namloc1980 wrote: »

New Zealand accent is dreadful.

and funny at the same time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0

murpho999

Deleted User wrote: »

Dutch:
https://youtu.be/wV9HP5J4g4Y

LirW wrote: »

Dutch, hands down.

El Tarangu wrote: »

A crying shame is the fact that Italian women are very beautiful, but then their accent is awful (when speaking either English or Italian).

A strong Dutch accent is very off-putting as well, as mentioned by a previous poster.

Have to agree with this also.

Lived in The Netherlands and speak fluent Dutch. When they speak Dutch it's grand but when they switch to English it sounds awful.

Birmingham accent can be a chore.

blinding

I don’t know where Berti Ahern was from but that was one woeful accent !

And then he would lie to you constantly to make it even worse !

Apiarist

Generally, I find all accents interesting, and some utterly hilarious. I speak with a Russian accent myself though and a really bad Russian accent annoys me as it reminds me of my own pronunciation errors. One the other hand, several women told me that they find my accent sexy.

In general, I find that even a "bad" accent can sound very nice if the person's voice is pleasant.

ohnonotgmail

murpho999 wrote: »

Have to agree with this also.

Lived in The Netherlands and speak fluent Dutch. When they speak Dutch it's grand but when they switch to English it sounds awful.

but that "yesh" accent isn't universal to dutch people. i've a mate from limburg who doesn't speak like that at all. according to him it is only people fromt he province of holland that have that accent.

murpho999

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

but that "yesh" accent isn't universal to dutch people. i've a mate from limburg who doesn't speak like that at all. according to him it is only people fromt he province of holland that have that accent.

It's not so much about the "yesh" it's the strong accent.

Limburg accent is very different all right, they speak with the "zachte G" or "soft G" as opposed to the guttaral G that people in North and South Holland would speak.

mr_fegelien

partyguinness wrote: »

Yeah I have clients from west Africa and bloody hell....

Even hearing them tell you they are in good form sounds like you are about to get your head kicked in.

I wonder how they pull of those 419/advance fee scams

bullpost

Was waiting in a hotel lobby for someone a good few years ago - nice hotel Dublin City centre.

An absolutely stunning woman came down the stairs and you could see she immediately had everyones attention.

She walked to reception and started talking in a broad north of england accent. It killed the moment and faces dropped all round.

StereoSound

Romanian, if I hear this accent directed at me then I know there is something they want from me.

InTheShadows

Black rap wanna be accents. Speaking like they driving a Ferrari yet living in mammies boxroom.