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| Hoopskidoodle Senior Member United States Joined 5499 days ago 55 posts - 68 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 241 of 297 06 November 2009 at 11:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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Melnibonéan, I've never really cared for The Silmarillion/LotR.
Seriously though, IMO, it's French. I also like the way Icelandic sounds. I don't understand a word of it. But, to my ears it sounds almost like someone speaking English gibberish. If fact, there are several amusing videos on Youtube where English speakers have captioned the video to the disturbingly beautiful Icelandic/Vonlenska song, "Hoppípolla" with English (Mondegreen) lyrics they imagined that Jón Þór Birgisson was singing. Hoppípolla: Misheard English Lyrics from an Icelandic Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssQOtzP661A I'd be curious to know if someone who actually speaks Icelandic can hear "and if (and if) the dachshund who shines a lot" even when they are reading it. Edited by Hoopskidoodle on 06 November 2009 at 11:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MorticiaMunster Newbie Canada Joined 5536 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Slovak, Hungarian, Welsh | Message 242 of 297 09 November 2009 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To me, SLOVAK is the most beautiful language to listen to. Czech is nice, but sounds harsher somehow to me. Slovak sounds so beautiful and it flows so nicely.
I also really like the sound of Hungarian. I live in Canada, and to me, I don't really like the sound of French that I hear. However, the kind spoken in France sounds a lot nicer, gentler, elegant, etc. The kind here sounds harsh. So that's why I never think of French as sounding too beautiful (I say this because I notice a lot of people saying French). Chinese sounds beautiful, atleast the Mandarin that I've heard. I like Welsh accents - they sound beautiful to me. But the language, it's cool, but not what I'd call *beautiful* I suppose. Korean and Japanese have fun sounds to them, to me, but also, not what I'd say beautiful, really. But not ugly or anything either. Just cool sounding. But yeah, for me, Slovak wins. :) Edited by MorticiaMunster on 09 November 2009 at 10:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 243 of 297 09 November 2009 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
You're probably the second person here who has publicly rated Slovak that highly. :-) My answer in 2005 to this question (on page 4 or 5 of this thread) still holds:
Among Slavonic languages, Slovak to my eyes and ears is the most beautiful. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5903 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 244 of 297 10 November 2009 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I take everything back I ever said about what the most beautiful language is... after
hearing Sesotho (Southern Sotho)... it is beautiful and romantic!!! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Anthony_H Newbie Mexico Joined 5536 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: French | Message 245 of 297 21 November 2009 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK, let me think about it:
French (Yeah, I know, obvious to the point of cliché, I just can't help myself, I just love it), Italian, Russian, Polish, Hebrew and Afrikaans (I see it as an "spiced up dutch") 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aquila Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5480 days ago 104 posts - 128 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: French | Message 246 of 297 22 November 2009 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you want to know what the most beautiful language is, you have to master all the languages of the world to compare them and after, your opinion will be still very subjective.
But of course you can have a preference. I think that the most people judge foreign languages on their sound. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5850 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 247 of 297 04 April 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm biased; I love the sound of Slovak.
Second for me is Polish, followed closely by Hungarian and French 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5599 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 248 of 297 04 April 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Maybe this has already already been discussed in this thread, but when is one more
qualified to judge the beauty of (the sound of) a language... when you know the language or when you do not know the language at all? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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