# Are Women Attracted To Men With Accents? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770 "2002-03-23T23:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sandalfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@sandalfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandalfeet)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/21 "2002-03-24T14:24:34Z")
i absolutley LOVE scottish and irish accents. also, luka on er makes me weak at the knees when he talks so i guess there is something to be said for a croation accent 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/22 "2002-03-24T14:28:17Z")
Hello ladies. \<========= 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/23 "2002-03-24T14:56:37Z")
Yeah, I bet you **wish** you had a Dublin accent 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/24 "2002-03-24T14:58:11Z")
Um… “Howye. Apples 'n ordnges foyve for a powund” (am I fooling anyone?). Thankfully many of these ladies like an English accent too. ---
**Author:** ![JubilationTCornpone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JubilationTCornpone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JubilationTCornpone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/25 "2002-03-24T17:10:04Z")
Okay, so several women have said that they find various European accents sexy. What about Asian and African accents? What would you say about the following? Indian South African Nigerian Chinese Filipino Indonesian Egyptian ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/26 "2002-03-24T17:43:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sandalfeet \* > \*\*i absolutley LOVE scottish and irish accents. \*\* Me too. Irish, English, and Scottish accents especially. Please, just come over and read the newspaper, dictionary, the phone book - anything- to me. Just whatever you do, don’t stop talking! ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/27 "2002-03-25T00:00:29Z")
Funny, I love Scottish accents, but English accents don’t do a thing for me. (I spent 6 months in England around a bunch of decidedly un-gentlemanly Englishmen, which may have something to do with it.) And I’ll second all those Luka fans. My brother’s roommate is from Bosnia and mmm-mmm-mmm! **Jubilation** , I really love African accents (though I’ll admit I can’t distinguish between them). A friend’s husband is from Kenya and I could listen to him talk all day long. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/28 "2002-03-25T00:18:36Z")
I have a deaf accent. Yes, I would say women are attracted to it, but only if they know what it is…Otherwise it seems to have the opposite effect. One time I was waiting at the hot tub place & a beautiful blond woman came over (I had an interpreter there too) & asked me what country I was from, because of my accent. I said ‘sweden!’ (cause she looked so swedish) & she said, ‘me too!’ & wanted to join us in the hot tub but I said no. ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/29 "2002-03-25T00:20:16Z")
For several years now, I’ve worked, off and on, for a loosely-knit group of South African gentlemen. Oh my, I have always loved their accents. I’ve recently met a man from Britain. Now _that_ voice and accent combination drives me crazy. It is incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/30 "2002-03-25T00:29:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jazzmine \* > \*\*I’ve recently met a man from Britain. Now _that_ voice and accent combination drives me crazy. It is incredible. \*\* Get him to say “naughty”. It’s just…swoonable. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/31 "2002-03-25T00:36:46Z")
Speaking as a hearing-impaired female, no, I’m not really attracted to men with foreign accents. It’s harder for me to figure out what he’s saying, and it gets embarrassing to ask him to repeat what he said multiple times. Okay, well this only goes for accents like Indian, African, and Middle Eastern accents. English/French/Scottish/other similar-to-English-sounding accents that force the speaker to clearly enunciate are always attractive, however. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/32 "2002-03-25T01:18:12Z")
Yes! I met a guy last night with a welsh accent. Worst conversationalist I’ve ever met, but I could have sat and listened for hours! I’m with most others here that any UK accent is good. US accents don’t fuss me much either way. ESL accents vary… ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/33 "2002-03-25T01:20:27Z")
I’m very strongly attracted to female British accents. ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/34 "2002-03-25T01:24:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\* > Get him to say “naughty”. It’s just…swoonable. \*\* Oh! I think I will. I can just imagine. I’m getting all…warm, just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/35 "2002-03-25T11:59:52Z")
Oooo, I love me some accents. Gimme an Irish accent and I’m yours. Foreign accents are just easy to romanticize. Speak Italian to me, and I’ll give you my credit card number. When I visited New York a few years ago, one of our waiters spoke Italian fluently. At one point furing the meal, he bent down and whispered to my sister and me something in Italian- I have no idea what he said - but the sounds raised the little hairs on the back of my neck. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/36 "2002-03-25T13:08:56Z")
My wife’s from Oregon and likes my Nottingham accent. If I want to turn her knees to jelly though, I have speak to her in Romani. Her American accent is wonderful, but after living over here for a while it’s starting to do very odd things: One minute she’ll call me ‘honey’ in a way that sets my heart racing, next she sounds like Dick Van Dyke. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/37 "2002-03-25T14:39:27Z")
Guin has it right: > [@](#): > > The best accents are ones of Slavic origin-Croatian, Serbian, Russian; or ones from the British Isles,-Scots, English, Irish. _drool_ just _drool_ Though sometimes its a bad thing to be so very happy with accents. One of my online friends is English and when he calls I’ll sometimes have to try to not listen to the syllables so I actually pay attention to the words. Otherwise I’ll just float off in a sea of delightful vowels, warm and happy and … huh? what? oh, sorry your boss was crappy today…we were talking about your boss right? So its better when you can just float because you aren’t supposed to know the language. My SO speaks some Slavic language (I can’t remember which one, if that shows how much I really care) and I just love it when he talks at me in it. (And it is talking _at_ me, while I am getting to where I can pick up a few choice words, I will just listen blissfully.) Who needs actual communication? mumble a spaghetti recipe at me and I’m gone… ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/38 "2002-03-26T06:08:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking as a hearing-impaired female, no, I’m not really attracted to men with foreign accents. It’s harder for me to figure out what he’s saying, and it gets embarrassing to ask him to repeat what he said multiple times. > Okay, well this only goes for accents like Indian, African, and Middle Eastern accents. English/French/Scottish/other similar-to-English-sounding accents that force the speaker to clearly enunciate are always attractive, however Second that about Mid-Eastern and African accents, **Magickly Delicious**. Hearing-impaired gal here, too. A couple of years ago had a college professor from, I think, Nigeria by way of Cairo. Augh!!! Very thick accent–practically impossible to understand. My Moroccan and Iranian math & physics instructors this year, likewise, though not as bad. It sometimes gets to the point, with the three of them, that I will give up trying to understand them (after “what???” is repeated five times) and will just live off the textbook and whatever help I can con from my classmates. Lipreading doesn’t even help, at least for the Nigerian guy. (He has the most amazing skin, though…shiny black coffee black…if he wasn’t twenty years older than me I’d have a crush, if I could understand a word he said…) On the other hand, I work for a group practice of four South African doctors. Mmmm!!! 😃 They can be hard to understand occasionally, especially the two that are fairly fresh from South Africa, but they are music to the ears to listen to! And much easier to understand than my professors, even on bad days. Some British accents are the same way, but some are a little grating. Australian accents are great, too, on guys or gals. Just slightly unusual, lilting, makes you think how pretty the language can be. Russian accents are beautiful, but also a bit hard to understand. Drat and blast deafness!! Grrr. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/39 "2002-03-26T06:22:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kloudes \* > \*\*Hmm, accents, yes. Not only because it sounds wonderful, but because it has that intrigue of another culture. I find stuff like that fascinating, and to me, an accent says, “Hi. I have a whole lot of interesting things I can tell you.” > \*\* I have to totally agree here. My husband was born in Holland and spent much of his growing up years in South Africa and Indonesia and not only was I attracted to his cute little accent, but also the fact that he has a huge amount of culture and life experience that was and still is totally fascinating to me. ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770/40 "2002-03-26T06:38:10Z")
OK, since people have specified that they like African and Indian accents, i’m curious, does anyone like **asian** accents? You know, korean/japanese/chinese accents. I’m asian and i often find them grating myself so i would be quite surprised if anyone liked them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-attracted-to-men-with-accents/99770.md?page=3)