How Does English Sound?

[LightHouse89]

I don't know, grown so used to it that it doesn't sound weird to me unless it's being spoken by Scots, that pronunciation just sounds wrong to me...

Lowlander Scot dialect or Scotch Irish Ulster] are my favorite accents....next to people from Dixie here in the States.

[Merida]

I almost forgot how it sounded before understanding.

And we have to keep in mind that we're exposed to it everyday in tv movies and serials.

Maybe for that reason it never sounded strange to me. Other languages usually have a noticeable intonation and weird sounds, while English always sounded neutral and soft.

The most noticeable feature of English is the way the R is pronounced, which is softer than ours.

I agree with this.

[Gustave H]

To non-English speakers who haven't had much contact with it, it sounds like a sort of wachy wachy kay, wachy wachy yeishon..., all said with a Donald Duck's voice.

wut

[Eventhorizon]

The interesting thing is that non-English speakers mainly find the North American English ( Canadian and US English) very nasal
some of them complain about why we "swallow " words and run our words together , I personally think that some of the speakers of that accent
are really really band in enunciation .
BTW , Richard Dawkins is not an accurate example for a British accent , he uses RP , ultra posh and the most perfect sounding Queen's English ( Along with Hitchens) but people in English rarely speak that way in everyday life