Where is the clearest English spoken?

The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72.


Which country speaks the clearest English?

Top 10 Countries that Speak English the Best!
  • Singapore.
  • Norway.
  • Denmark.
  • South Africa.
  • Luxemburg.
  • Finland.
  • Slovenia.
  • Germany.


Who speaks the most fluent English?

The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72.


What are the top 3 English speaking countries?

Which Countries Have the Most English Speakers?
  • United States: 268M. ...
  • India: 125M. ...
  • Pakistan: 94M. ...
  • The Philippines: 90M. ...
  • Nigeria: 79M-100M. ...
  • The United Kingdom: 59.6M. ...
  • The Netherlands: 15M English Speakers. ...
  • Denmark: 4.8M English Speakers.


Where is the strongest English accent?

People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.


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Which English accent is attractive?

According to a recent poll in the Independent, the British accent has been chosen as being the most attractive accent in the world, beating the French accent which was once know as the loveliest accent.

What is the least attractive English accent?

The Birmingham accent is considered the least attractive accent in the British Isles – and Southern Irish the most appealing. A quick analysis of English dialects shows that there are roughly as many in the British Isles as there are in the whole of North America – including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects ...

What is the most respected accent?

Accordingly, we asked people what the most and least pleasant accent to listen to is. Overwhelmingly, people like the Southern accent best, followed by British and Australian accents. Southern accents tend to be thought of as friendly and welcoming, while British and Australian accents are more exotic.


Which English accent is easiest?

Option 1: the American accent

The most popular English accent of them all. Spread around the world by American cinema, music, television and more than 350 million North Americans (including Canadians, eh), this is the easiest accent for most people to understand, whether native speakers or non-native speakers.

What is the hardest English accent to imitate?

The British Accent

The Great British accent proved to be the most difficult of all the accents to imitate – along with the regional Yorkshire and Cockney pronunciations, in particular.

Which English accent is the most neutral?

The idea that there is one accent that is the most neutrally American has been around for a long time, and it is usually called “General American.” The term was coined in 1925 by the descriptive linguist George Philip Krapp as a way to describe the accent he thought was becoming the norm in the United States.


What is the prettiest American accent?

That's right. Europeans find the accent of Americans who live in the Deep South the sexiest, followed closely by the New York accent.

Who has the hottest accent?

The French accent, previously considered the sexiest in the world, has been dethroned by the British accent, aka the Queen's English, in a global study carried out by Time Out in over 30 countries.

What is the most liked British accent?

So, want to know which region came top? It was the 'Welsh accent', whatever that is, with 20 points. This was closely followed by the Yorkshire accent, with a total of 15. The top five was rounded out by the West Country (13), Newcastle (10) and Northern Ireland (five).


What accent sounds smartest?

And Swedish accents are thought to be the most “intelligent” and “trustworthy” (24 percent and 15 percent, respectively).

Which English accent is the original?

It is the standard British accent that has drastically changed in the past two centuries, while the typical American accent has changed only subtly.

What accent is closest to Old English?

I do know that according to some linguists, the language that theoretically sounds the closest to Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon) is not English at all; it's Frisian.


What American accent is closest to British?

While the accent of the American South might be difficult to comprehend for many students of the English language, its original form was actually much closer to British English, albeit with a playful inflection.

Why do British people say bloody?

Bloody. Don't worry, it's not a violent word… it has nothing to do with “blood”.”Bloody” is a common word to give more emphasis to the sentence, mostly used as an exclamation of surprise. Something may be “bloody marvellous” or “bloody awful“. Having said that, British people do sometimes use it when expressing anger…

What is the hardest British accent?

Which UK accents are harder to transcribe than others? This is our list of the top ten areas of difficult regional UK accents:
  • Glaswegian.
  • Geordie (Newcastle and Tyneside)
  • Scouse (Merseyside)
  • Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall areas)
  • West and South Yorkshire.
  • Leicestershire.
  • Cockney (Greater London)
  • Essex.


What is the classiest English accent?

Received Pronunciation (RP) is at the top. Traditionally it was the accent used by the aristocracy and to some extent cut across regions.

What is the least liked accent?

The British, Australian, and French accents were deemed Americans' favorite, as well as the accents they find sexiest. The Welsh, Korean, and South African accents are the least sexually appealing for respondents, rounding out the bottom in that category.

Which country has strong accent?

British: In all, 57% of survey respondents said that those who speak with a British accent sound smarter, which is far more than any other accent—indeed, nearly twice as many as the second most-named choice. French: Among respondents, 29% said that those who speak with a French accent sound smarter.