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).
Trans Atlantic accent or contemporary American accent? I think accents are really cute. My heart melts slightly when my SO’s family speaks because they have a pronounced Canadian accent.
Australian accents are my all-time favorite though. Cheerful, relaxed, lovely. :)
It’s relatively infrequent, every once in awhile, I’ll hear certain pronunciations in American southern accents or Australian accents that reveals age-old British accent roots. It’s rather interesting.