I think American accents are now so ubiquitous that they no longer have any novelty value for other nationalities. Back in the 40s and 50s an American accent was an advantage to GIs over here in the UK but nowadays they're there every time we watch any sort of screen. Americans, however, have such a huge entertainment industry that they have much less need to import programmes from overseas thus they hear other accents far less frequently than the rest of us hear yours. "Familiarity breeds contempt" so the saying goes. Nothing personal.

Im British as regards American Accents the best of the best for me would be Hugh Laurie (House) Andrew Lincoln,Lauren Cohan,David Morrissey,Lennie James (Walking Dead) Christian Bale (Batman) (American Psycho),Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln),Chiwetel Ejiofor(12 Years A Slave),Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl),Idris Elba(The Wire),Kate Winslet(Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)Damian Lewis(Homeland),Sonya Walger(Flash Forward),Karen Gillan(Selfie)there are many more i could include but lets finish with Vivien Leigh as Scarlett OHara(Gone With The Wind)

I am American. I think a lot of Americans either really like or really hate English accents. I am neutral on accents. Maybe it is because I grew up hearing the South African accents of my cousins. I like New York accents like my own because they make me feel at home.

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I'm english and always loved american women, espc. their accents.
Some of them sound so sexy.

I don't like the sound of American English at all. This is not so much about the various accents but about the way Americans use their voices and how the "r" is pronouced. It sounds throaty, artificial and annoying. Not always of course but British English is heaven to my ears compared to American English.

It's funny because I spent a lot of time in France and most people there have a disastrous English and everyone kept telling me how they loved THE British accent better than THE American accent because Americans chewed their words and I was trying to make them understand that there are dozens of 'British' accents and more than a few 'American' accents and that they'd be hard pressed trying to understand a cockney or Scottish accent. It's like in French, there are many different regional accents that can leave the foreign French speaker perplexed but for some reason they think when you speak English you just have either THE American or THE British! lol wait til they hear THE Aussie! lol
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

haha I thought of mentioning Welsh but didn't since I didn't know if it was major enough to say. Yeah, the time I met some Welsh people I thought they sounded exactly like they were English.

I love how Welsh is just generally forgotten by most, while it's probably one of the ones most imitated by us Angles.
American accents arn't all that bad. I like the way they relfect alot of different cultures.

Yes, we know how varied the English accent is, but definitely couldn't give you the names of the different types beyond maybe cockney. It makes sense that you guys have so many accents (more than us) - your country is much older, so people had time to settle in places and form their own unique accents. We honestly love all English accents (and Irish and Scottish ones as well) - not just the Southern-based ones. You all just sound so educated and sophisticated to us.
I don't blame you for not liking our accent I agree that it is usually ugly. I agree with you on the understanding accents thing too - as an American, I really have to focus when I hear British people speak, but I don't think British people have a hard time understanding us. Probably because we pronounce words very much how they are spelled (almost too clearly), whereas you guys sometimes seem to leave off the "r" sound and in general blend your words together a bit so sentences flow better.

never really heard an american accent that stops me in my tracks (although i could listen to eliza dushku all night long :o). the american accent doesnt do it for me, but i have met a few from the states who loved to hear me speak. when speaking to a few female friends over there i was told to keep talking, when i said, what about, the answer was, say anything but just keep talking!! even swearing was music to their ears (actually educated them on the correct pronounciation of a couple)
one thing i did notice was that i never had any trouble understanding any accent i encountered, but i had to repeat myself quite often as they had trouble with mine.
i remember in an old cheers episode they had on an english cleaner, who when she spoke had such a cut-glass accent you would think she was related to the queen - at least they dont do that anymore
i spent a bit of time working in france and i've always had a thing for the female french accent. there's just something about that accent that hits the right spot. i think if i was told to take out the rubbish and clean the toilet with a toothbrush it would still sound sexy done in french!
a question; do the americans know how varied the english accent is? although we're a small country the number of accents and dialects is massive in comparison; scouse, geordie, yorks, lancs, manc, brummie, black country, east anglian, cockney, cornish, bristonian, etc etc. i would guess that most who say they love an english accent would consider the southern-based accents as the ones they mean.

As a straight girl, the only female American accent I've found at all attractive was the girlfriend of the guy who died in the film "Shooter"
I'm anespeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericumbobulations

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tara reid american accent - yes!
'I got one on his forehead for sure, then I whaled on him'

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this is hilarious, the thread just immediately devolves into americans hating on themselves so brits don't even have to
give them a chance people, this is what they do best
L'enfer, c'est les autres

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The normal "clean" accent that the majority of Americans have is called the Midwestern Diction not the California diction. I can tolerate most of the world's accents with the exception of two. I really can't stand a Brooklyn/Lomg Island accent. Many people have already discussed that some accents affect attractivness. In my case if a woman has this type of accent, I'm severly turned off. The second is a Scotish accent. A good example of this is Craig Ferguson and that guy who does those documentries on the Science and Discovery channel (not Bear Grylls).

I am East Coast American woman and I am attracted to UN American accents on guys. British, Irish, Scottish..yummy!

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I have the californian accent but for some reason I got a slight southern drawl on some of my vowels and my r's are a bit off and I can sound very black sometimes with my t's and th's. I think it's weird. I like it though, I wouldn't want any other voice, but I like that I found a fellow california-mix although I've been a native all my life, but I guess moving up and down the state I have friend from the south who lost her accent after a while living in massachusetts but I think she sounds a lot like me, so you might sound a bit like me too!

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I have a lazy west coast accentI'm from a small town in the valley. Basically I sound a little drunk. Most kids from here sound the same. But the adults don't since they've been out to the real world. LOL
I don't like British accents since I sometimes have a hard time understanding what they are saying! I'm like "wtf??" whenever they speak. My favorite accent is an Italian-Brooklyn. Oh, and Californian. Besides that I don't like muchnot even mine.