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Originally Posted by Anonymous I am a student in China. Because of the Hollywood movies, American songs and much more frequent contact with US than that of UK, American accent seems more popular.
However, the college teachers suggest that British accent is more acceptable in the world, especially in the world outside US. Is it true?
I want to know how would UKers react to American accent speaking callers and vice versa.
Do Americans like British accent on the phone when it is a sales call, for example?
I want opinions from only native English speakers, mainly UK and US citizens. Please state your nationality and your feelings about the accents.
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I may not be the best person to answer this as I am American (Californian to be exact) and I adore accents, but I personaly like the British accent the best. I also don't think anyone outside the U.S (or maybe just outside California) would respond very well to picking up the phone and hearing, "Hey homedog, what up?" and respond worse if it was an enterpenuer(sorry if that's spelled wrong) and they added, "How would you like to buy some magazines, new with some bad dirt." then again that is mostly based on Californian slang so I don't know, people generaly don't like getting called about a "stupid product that wastes their money."
I think you could get by with any accent, personaly. If you just want to be understood then I'd say find an accent that is easy to understand (one that isn't "cloudy" and pernounces things, pernunciation is a key thing to being understood) and do NOT use slang.