accents and speaking mistakes

I live in England but I am not a native English speaker. I have strong accent and sometimes make small English mistakes when speaking. I am often worried about these two, especially if i am trying to chat up a girl in a pub or club. So ladies i appreciate your answer to the below question..

You are in a club and decent looking block comes to chat you up. He has a very strong accent and making grammer mistakes or pausing to find the right word during the conversation. would this turn you off? Does the guy stand a chance?

Thanks

 

srry no1 replied, so ill do it. im not a girl, but english accents are pretty cool, imo if any thing chicks would think its cool to

 

thanks but I have an italian accent

 

o italian stalion, again i would think mad chicks would dig the accent all suave and romantic and shit.

 

i think accents are adorable. there's nothing sexier than a foreign accent, i think.

 

i have a friend in his 50s who moved here to the states from greece a number of years ago, and he still has a thick accent and every once in a while makes mistakes or doesnt know a word. because he has an attractive personality, he's a good looking guy, and so on, he actually tends to manage to go out with girls in their 20s.

i have another friend i know, she's been here less then a year, and shes from latvia. not the hottest girl in the world, but she's got a really cute accent and she's a fun person to be around and she's pretty good looking at least, and all the guys want to go out with her.

its normal to be slightly embarassed or self-conscious about our own accents when we speak a foreign language, because we dont REALLY know how it sounds to the native speakers of that language, but at least as far as english speaking americans are concerned people find foreign accents really hot a lot of the time. i'd say if you aren't terribly terribly ugly and have a pretty good personality, the accent will only make you MORE appealing to girls. a lot of girls, anyway, can't garauntee they'll all be all over you...

 

i second that

 

thank you very much. i already start to feel more confident..

 

Yes... confidence is very attractive, too. Even if you're not the hottest guy in the place, if you act like it, you'll be amazed

 

right so now i will be showing lots of confidence....but i should balance it well as i think overconfidence is not so good...

 

Luigi on "Growing up Gotti" gets the chicks.

PS It's to your advantage. There's in inwired evolutionary thing that says "foreigner = different DNA = better chance of baby survival due to less chance of inbreeding"

which is why whoever you are, your chances of pulling overseas to where you are are greatly improved.

 

Hey i think i might have been misunderstood. i have no problem getting a girlfriend but i usually go for other foreigners in the UK. I was just wondering if someone speaking English with an accent or pausing to find words would turn people off or not..

 

If you're going for fellow foreigners, shouldn't you be OK speaking your mother tongue?

 

yeah that is a wise approach but other foreigners are not necessarly from my country so different language and we communicate in English.

 

It don't seem to....am a geordie so no bugger south of York or West of carlisle can understand me anyway.....

 

Yes, but all foreigners speak English even around non-English people. They just do so with unconvincing accents.

Watch any movie about the French Revolution or Russian spies during the cold war.

 

As a guy who doesn't speak English as his mother tongue, I can safely say it doesn't really matter at all.

I think I'm an alright speaker now, though. What I can say is that your verbal skills WILL improve over time, considering you're always actually using the damned language.

Besides, you're an Italian dude. You probably have far better chance than I do to begin with.

 

I'm also a foreigner living in the UK and have a strong spanish accent. I would say people feel really curious about my origins and it used to bother me quite a lot because I thought i sounded ok, but as soon as i opened my mouth someone will ask "where are you from?" it used to annoy the fuck out of me.

I just came to the conclusion that I shouldn't care if people are put off by my accent because I cannot fake who I am and where I am from and I'm actually quite proud of being able to master the english language as well as I master my own. Anyway, i wanted to vent a little....

Don't worry about your accent, i know it does make you self conscious at approaching girls but i wouldn't worry too much. If a girl rejects you solely because of that, you're definitely better off without someone like that...oh and italian accents are sooooooo sexy, well i dig all accents cos they make people different and that's always a good thing.

 

Zeppelina i know what you are saying..most of the people i talk with for the first time ask my origins too..and it does piss me off too..i feel like people judge me because of my origins not my personality

 

But maybe that's not their intent, maybe they think asking you about yourself is a good conversation starter?