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).
As someone with a fairly ‘strong’ London accent, I personally love the Southern US accent. I don’t know why we don’t all speak that way.
Supposedly, Scottish accents are perceived as more trustworthy and that’s why most financial services ads in the UK have Scottish voiceovers!
However, all this is down to culture and personal taste. I don’t think one or the other sounds objectively better!
I was in the airport recently and family had an incredible southern accent. Their voices were like cool rain on a hot summer afternoon. It was nice to just bask in their everyday conversation from a distance. :)
Here in Florida I still sometimes hear old ladies speaking in the most proper, old Southern accents. Then they bust into perfect Spanish.