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).
I’m not sure what you mean by the American accent but southeastern “southerners” here sound goddamn stupid to me. I’m hoping you more mean the California accent, which does sound like youre a popular social media star at the expense of also being an airhead. I like the midwestern “Chicago” or southern Canada accent the best and I wish it was the one other nations knew us by.
Australian does sound like cooler British to me which when combined with your experiences convinces me that we think the unfamiliar is cool.