Which accents do you dislike?

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Now i know why the sothern norwegians pronounce the "R" differently than the northern ones, its because of danes, but i feel thankful because it seems easier to talk like that

heres another nugget of wisdom:

that "french R" is spreading fast, but trønders and mørings, and everyone from the north of that "line" can barely pronounce it. it costs us a lot. the rolling norse R is easyer.

oppositely, we got the palatal sounds, the nasal N "mainn", the palatal L "kaill" that southerners cant say.

in other words

there is a physical language block, that splits norway in half :]

I don't particularly like northern accents (north of england) because they sound very annoying but somalians for me are the worse very aggressive.

American who barely move their jaw when speaking and still speak with their tongue. Heard a fireman speaking like that one time, think I could have muzzled about anyone and I would still have understood them better.

London/Essex. Essex being more the standard "cockney rhyming slang" I phoned a section of London and hated the way the recording destroyed nearly every word. Very similar to the French. The letter "H" doesn't exist cos they do not pronounce it. I can copy most accents given to me. Sometimes I am mistaken for Australian/African...

When I moved from Sunderland in the north east of England down to London I had to change my name. I was always called Anth, short for Anthony. When I moved to London I found that Londoners can't say Anth they say Anff and Anthony became Antony. So I became Tony (they say Tawny but it's near enough).

And as for you Norwegians I found when I used to work in Hardanger and spoke Norwegian people would just assume from my accent I was Danish, don't know why because I thought I was speaking Norwegian good.

I always think it sounds a bit strange when you get some British celebrity who spends a long time in the States and develops a sort of half-British, half-American accent. It occasionally happens the other way round as well (for example with Madonna).
It just sounds so bizarre to me.

I can't think of any accent by region that I particularly dislike, but one person's accent I don't much like is Hugh Laurie's in House, although I think he's a good actor and it's a good programme. The accent doesn't sound right to me. I don't know what you Americans make of it.

I dislike the Irish accents because to my paranoid mind it sounds as if they are making fun of my slight German one. I also dislike the Bavarian accent in German. Also: Americans who speak German. *shudders* Sorry, we can talk in English and it is okay, but if I hear yet another 'nicht' pronounced as 'nikt' (for Americans: pronounce it like nisht, you have that sound in your language but insit on using a wrong one) I will scream.

Generally, I dislike accents which I can't understand with the exception of African accents (in English, French and German). I often went to a certain internet cafe to buy calling cards (even though it was further away than alternatives) just because the owners were from Ghana and had a really beautiful voice.

I like all accents. The more broad they are, the better. I'd love to have a strong Northern English accent, but I don't--mine's fairly weak and people probably couldn't tell where I'm from. I'm interested in languages and I love listening for the slight changes they do and relating that to sound change.

hi
i like alot of accents including Australian
ever time i see a friendly Australian person i ask him to say
"the dingo ate my baby" then when he does i crack up in laughter

hi
i like a lot of accents including Australian
ever time i see a friendly Australian person i ask him to say
"the dingo ate my baby" then when he does i crack up in laughter

A German or Russian or Scottish accent sounds "cool". A French accent sounds romantic. A Swedish or sing song Indian accent makes you sound silly.

Question:
What do WE sound like when we learn other languages?

Do the Japanese say:

"Russians sound interesting but English speakers sound like morons"?

I really don't like the london/essex accent but all my family have it. Mine is slowly neutralising and only comes out on certain words or with people from that area. I can pick up accents quite easily, spending time with someone with a strong accent and I'll come away with that accent for at least a couple of weeks afterwards.