betaquarx Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5720 days ago 70 posts - 90 votes Speaks: German*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 9 of 95 07 April 2009 at 2:56pm | IP Logged |
Italian has a wonderful sound to it, thanks to the many vowels at the end of words.
That made it the ideal language for opera songs.
But all romance languages are beautiful.
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Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 10 of 95 07 April 2009 at 3:16pm | IP Logged |
Romanian without a doubt, because of the unique-sounding combination of Romance and Slavic. Made all the more beautiful by the fact that I can't understand it yet!
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Maximus Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6750 days ago 417 posts - 427 votes Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Thai
| Message 11 of 95 07 April 2009 at 4:03pm | IP Logged |
Romanian!
It sounds way more awesome than French or Italian and I have listened to so much Spanish that it has become mundane and ordinary.
Brazilian Portuguese also sounds pretty nice.
Edited by Maximus on 07 April 2009 at 4:03pm
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worldcitizen Bilingual Heptaglot Newbie Germany squidoo.com/learn-Ro Joined 5712 days ago 28 posts - 28 votes Speaks: German*, Romanian*, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Arabic (classical), Hindi
| Message 12 of 95 07 April 2009 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
My favorites in descending order:
1. Italian
2. Portuguese (but only the Brazilian one!)
3. Spanish
4. French
I left out Romanian because it's my native and I can't be objective here ;)
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anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6204 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French
| Message 13 of 95 07 April 2009 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
I voted for Spanish (it's my first love!), but Romanian comes in a close second. I'm surprised Italian has so many votes--I think it sounds kind of harsh with its rhythm. And don't worry about not including Catalan. As much as I love the language, I don't think I've ever heard somebody call it "beautiful"!
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6679 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 14 of 95 07 April 2009 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
Romanian, definitely! I really dislike the sound of all the other Romance languages (except for perhaps Portuguese), but Romanian is lovely. It's definitely on my language hit list :)
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brozman Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 6057 days ago 87 posts - 106 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, English, Japanese Studies: Russian, Indonesian
| Message 15 of 95 07 April 2009 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
I chose Portuguese, because I simply love it, though Romanian isn't less beautiful.
Don't worry about Catalan, it's my beloved mother tongue, but I don't think it sounds beautiful at all, and I wouldn't like to see it down on the list!
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JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5984 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 16 of 95 07 April 2009 at 10:37pm | IP Logged |
I chose French, but every language is beautiful -it just depends on who is speaking
it.
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