The 'Indian' accent

I haven't done what many Indians do when they move to the West - modify my cadence. I went to school in Bangalore - incidentally, the same one a certain famous Bollywood star attended - but I sound NOTHING like her, nor do I sound like a typical Madrasi, despite being a Tamilian through and through. 

*How I wish! How I wish I sounded Scottish or Irish. They are seriously two of the most sexiest accents in the world - especially when the speaker also happens to be a young(ish), super hot male a la James McAvoy 

Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of Aus-trayy-lian accents either. No offence to any Aussies round here, but it just doesn't appeal to me. The Australian PM Julia Gillard's accent is hilarious - she pronounces words like hyperbole as hyper-bowl, lol. Then again, I suppose Australians would probably find my accent to be rather terrible as well.

As for Americans' I really, really, really LOVE the way older Americans tend to speak. It's just lovely to hear old men and women rabbit on about something or other on buses, trains etc. I do, however, pretty fu(king LOATHE the valley girl and valley boy accent in which most young Americans tend to speak. I don't know whether that's a generational thing or only a California thing (I live in San Francisco), but MOST young Americans are inarticulate as sh!te and have this shrill, jarring accents where every sentence ends on a high note. It's just terrible.

I must say, I do love - and at times fetishise - European accents. The RP accent is of course lovely to hear, but Southern English accents are pretty lovely as well. I even love a good Northern accent, though I must admit that I do have a LOT of trouble understanding Geordie and Cockney accents. Scottish and Irish accents, like I've already mentioned are par-fecking-ticularly sexy, and Welsh ones are pretty nice as well. God, sometimes I so wish I were living in Britain and not America. I just think the English and Scottish are culturally and linguistically streets ahead of the Americans. And the men there dress a LOT better than straight men in America tend to. Again, it could be a California thing. I've heard that people in the East Coast dress a lot more meticulously than the CA lot. Lol, I even love the way the French speak English, even when they do it poorly. The English spoken by the Germans, Swiss and Austrains is, however, a lot less symphonic than that of the French. Russian English is pretty unglamourous as well, though hot Russian women are hot, whatever they say or don't say, hehe. 

Chinese English is quite hard to understand, I'm afraid. As often as not, it sounds as if they are speaking Chinese and not English, even when they are speaking English. 

As for Indian English - I actually quite like the way I speak and like I said, I haven't modified my accent after coming to the States. Though there's little to be said about SOME Indian accents - I once had a chemistry teacher who used to pronounce air as 'year'. He was Assamese. Though I'm an ethnically Tamilian Bangalorean, I don't go a bundle on either the Kannadiga English or the Tamilian one, though I do hold a soft spot for the way my maternal grandparents speak it. It's kinda rubbish, but I love them dearly, so I find they way the speak endearing.  I do quite like the Malayali English though, but then again I just think Malayalam is one of the most beautiful sounding languages around. 

no comments on others but there's an Afro-American girl...

her accent is super-awesome!!

Hey, just in case, u r interested, I love this singer from London, (his accent is awesome!)

His English songs are sooo good n the music is awesome! n he has also made remixes of some hindi songs...though he doesn't sing in hindi!

I also heard many of his interviews - love his accent
Arjun: Do check out his channel(if u like it...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZmnmqpNIno&feature=relmfu

 

My Hindi (spoken) resembles a funny accent but Indians tend to take that in a warm manner with a appreciating smile. Its not treated as funny, well not in my experience.