As someone with a fairly ‘strong’ London accent, I personally love the Southern US accent. I don’t know why we don’t all speak that way.

Supposedly, Scottish accents are perceived as more trustworthy and that’s why most financial services ads in the UK have Scottish voiceovers!

However, all this is down to culture and personal taste. I don’t think one or the other sounds objectively better!

There are a lot of different British and American accents, depending on which part of the country they’re from. Some sound much better than others. I don’t know much about Australian accents. Is there just one, or many different ones depending on their location?

I remember trying to watch Mad Max a long time ago. I didn’t make it very far in the movie because I couldn’t understand what they were saying most of the time. I find most American and British accents easier to understand, although there are a few that are harder.

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 with combined with your experiences convinces me that we think the unfamiliar is cool.

I take what you mean with "American accent" being the accent they use on US Television in shows and most news?

Because there's a hell of a lot of regional accents in both Britain and the US and various ones in both sounds stupid while others sound sophisticated.

Looking at you Scousers and Southerners.

Trans Atlantic accent or contemporary American accent? I think accents are really cute. My heart melts slightly when my SO’s family speaks because they have a pronounced Canadian accent.

Australian accents are my all-time favorite though. Cheerful, relaxed, lovely. :)

It’s relatively infrequent, every once in awhile, I’ll hear certain pronunciations in American southern accents or Australian accents that reveals age-old British accent roots. It’s rather interesting.

▪︎ British accent sounds more “proper and elegant”

Ah yes the elegant accent of Enfield or Redcar

I’m an Aussie, and I reckon you can’t beat the articulated British accent. It’s just… proper.

I consider the King’s English to be the gold reference.

Define better. What are you trying to achieve?

I’ve always found the American accent quite cool.

Now, let me say something I haven’t seen mentioned here: don’t change your accent. Be proud of it. Have you traveled to the UK or the US yet? If not, do it. You’ll find plenty of people finding you interesting and wanting to talk to you because of your accent.

British accent sounds more “proper and elegant”

Let me introduce you to my Geordie family and see if tou still feel English is elegant. The high English spoken by poshos that is all over TV and movies is very different than how most Brits talk

As for American accents, i have an absolutely bonkers accent of American Midwest with Texas drawl sprinkled in and other lazy drawn out vowels. Just speak however feels comfortable

No serious linguist would advise you to change your accent like this. It’s artificial and unlikely to succeed entirely, as you’ve noticed - accents are a reflexive, instinctive thing, difficult to rewire. The characteristics of the accents you mention (what you’re referring to are probably General American accent and British “Received Pronunciation”, which are far fromunivesal American or British accents) are shaped purely by (pop) culture. That includes the judgment on how good an accent sounds.

You don’t appear to have any external reason to change your accent. If you live in Australia and talk with Australians, why would you want to sound like a non-Australian? Why do you want to sound non-relaxed?