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| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4591 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 25 of 47 18 October 2012 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
I love how you sorted them into categories! And really, you consider Danish beautiful to listen to? To me this is interesting, as to my ears it's much too unclear and mumbly to be beautiful, and in my opinion Swedish is the most beautiful Scandinavian language, hands down. However, I guess I also cannot judge them quite objectively, because they make sense to me. But in any case, it's funny to see Danish on the list. And Norwegian among the favorites when sung? That's nice! Now you made me think of whether I could make a list and divide it in these categories, too. Let's see... though I'm afraid I'm forgetting some: Spoken: Czech, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Slovenian, Swedish Written: Czech, Turkish, Greek, Croatian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Thai, Burmese, Arabic, Sung: Czech (duh, repetitive list, much?), Turkish, Afrikaans, Italian, Croatian ...that's some of them, at least. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4843 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 26 of 47 18 October 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
I listen to Faroese music on YouTube (for example Handan Mjørkan) and sometimes I listen to Faroese radio/TV on kringvarp.fo. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4469 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 27 of 47 18 October 2012 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For me it's impossible to choose one single language as most beautiful.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 28 of 47 19 October 2012 at 11:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is always so hard, I can't pick just one beautiful language! Here is my list of beautiful languages in no special order and including some smaller regional languages/dialects:
Spanish (Mexican Spanish is my favorite) Italian Sicilian Afrikaans Dutch (Yes, Afrikaans and Dutch do sound different) Venetian Swedish (particularly Gothenburg dialect, and also Skånska) Finnish (Savo dialect is still one of my favorites) Romanian French Portuguese (especially as spoken in Portugal, though Brazilian is also very nice.) Danish Faroese Hindi Marathi Kannada I'm sure there's a few more I've forgotten, but this list is already long enough. Edited by mick33 on 26 October 2012 at 1:49am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 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 29 of 47 19 October 2012 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It has to be Swedish. Light, melodic, vowel-heavy, and all around lovely.
I quite like Russian as well, though. For exactly the opposite reasons. :) Edited by tarvos on 19 October 2012 at 12:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mondi Heptaglot Newbie Australia Joined 7029 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic (Written) | Message 30 of 47 21 October 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Written: Mongolian (in the old vertical script) followed by Arabic.
Spoken: Tahitian, Rapanui, Rarotongan, Samoan and other Polynesian languages. Some other languages like Tupi and Divehi look lovely written, but I've never heard them spoken. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4558 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 31 of 47 21 October 2012 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've found that languages become increasingly "transparent" to me as I get better at
them, until eventually all I hear are the emotions and information being conveyed. I suppose each language has its characteristic flavor that remains even after mastery, but it's very subtle and elusive. On the other hand, if I have no idea of what's being said, even the most beautiful language is usually rendered bland and sterile to my ears. Right now, I would probably say Japanese with French as the runner-up, though I reserve the right to change my opinion (on a whim) at a later date. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 32 of 47 21 October 2012 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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