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schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3536 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 9 of 15 06 April 2015 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
It reminds me of the Burmese language. There're a lot of nice sounding Asian
languages.
Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:55pm
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| schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3536 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 10 of 15 06 April 2015 at 3:51pm | IP Logged |
guiguixx1 wrote:
I LOVE the sound of English! (not a very exotic choice though).
Among all the language
that I have tried, or can speak, it's by very favorite. I couldn't say why,
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English is made up of so many other languages: old German, Latin, french, Spanish,
Scandinavian and other languages. There so many words that the English language has
borrowed into its lexicon. One of my favorite sound English words is serendipity. Do you
have a favorite?
Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:54pm
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5751 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 11 of 15 06 April 2015 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
Yes.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4506 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 12 of 15 07 April 2015 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
When spoken by young women, then Danish and French. Don't know why, maybe because of the
soft sound. Danish is made especially charming by the stød. The milder forms of Finnland
Swedish are also nice (ie. the ones that don't sound like a Finnish native speaker
talking Swedish).
Nordlandsk sounds great no matter the gender. Sunnmøre dialects are also great.
When spoken by men, then Nynorsk with Sogn accent (I don't think I've ever heard anybody
from there speaking Sognamaol, so no comment on that). I also like Icelandic and
Setesdalen dialect in this class.
Dutch is also quite pleasant independently of the gender.
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| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4847 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 13 of 15 07 April 2015 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course,
this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor old/rare/distant languages
and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my
experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the most. Is
it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding to
western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple phonetic
systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French,
Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and so
they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap
(influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering..
I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes
Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way as the
other foreign languages.
Edited by caam_imt on 07 April 2015 at 10:58am
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| schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3536 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 14 of 15 09 April 2015 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course,this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor
old/rare/distant languages
and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my
experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the
most. Is
it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding
to
western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple
phonetic
systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French,
Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and
so
they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap
(influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering..
I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes
Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way
as the
other foreign languages.[/QUOTE]
I think its a combination of everything you said. Your last question makes me
wonder how popular the German language would be today if WWI and WWII never
occurred. I now that a lot of German-Americans were persecuted for war hysteria.
It force many German-american immigrants to change their last names, for example
Schmidt become smith.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4692 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 15 of 15 10 April 2015 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
Swedish is my favourite by far
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