Is your accent holding you back? According to new research, many Americans are anxious about how they sound when traveling abroad. Babbel, a language-learning app , teamed up with Dr. A whopping 7, people in the U. The results showed that Americans are most worried when it comes to how their accent is perceived abroad. These rankings indicate overall attractiveness, but the accent in the top spot changes depending on the country of the survey respondents.
Like, totally! When it comes to other accents: Fuhgeddaboudit. Was nearly every country in agreement that the Minnesota accent is the least attractive? You betcha! Only the Swedish and German employees disagreed, ranking the New York and Midwestern accents, respectively, as the least attractive.
Germans found Midwestern accents the least sexy. Aside from the Swedes and Germans, most of the polled Europeans found the Minnesotan accent the least sexy, which is interesting, since Minnesotans sound a bit Scandinavian to my obviously untrained ears. Perhaps we dislike what we're closest to? On the other hand, only the Irish ranked the Deep South accent number one 30 percent , though apparently it culled enough mention from the other nationalities that it made it all the way to the top altogether.
Of course, while it might seem like Alabamans have the best chance of hooking up with a hot European on a backpacking adventure, accents are a fairly small slice of overall attraction, and as Babbel points out, you're more likely to snag a vacation hottie by, say, speaking your host country's language, or inviting a hostel crush out for a romantique wine dinner and plate of escargot. As for the accents American women prefer, it turns out I'm not alone in swooning over a good Londoner — last spring, a survey from dating site Miss Travel revealed the majority of my fellow countrywomen go wild for British accents, while American men preferred Israeli accents not European, but still.
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