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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 34 of 95 13 April 2009 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
I am wondering if more people had heard Romanian spoken, would it have a higher ranking? Personally, I believe it to be the most beautiful and was surprised to see it in last place. The only reason that I can attribute this to is that most people have never heard it. It is really only since March of this year that I have really ever heard it. This is just something to think about here.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 35 of 95 13 April 2009 at 6:33am | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
I am wondering if more people had heard Romanian spoken, would it have a higher ranking? Personally, I believe it to be the most beautiful and was surprised to see it in last place. The only reason that I can attribute this to is that most people have never heard it. It is really only since March of this year that I have really ever heard it. This is just something to think about here. |
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I think you're right; I couldn't vote for Romanian in this poll because I haven't heard it spoken yet. Later tonight, I will probably find an online radio station that broadcasts in Romanian, just so I can hear what the language sounds like.
Edited by mick33 on 13 April 2009 at 6:34am
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 36 of 95 13 April 2009 at 12:37pm | IP Logged |
I simply don't understand this discussion. There are people whose intonation and choice of words can make any language shine, and there are those that could make any language sound like something that came out of the backside of an ork.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 37 of 95 13 April 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
mick33 wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
I am wondering if more people had heard Romanian spoken, would it have a higher ranking? Personally, I believe it to be the most beautiful and was surprised to see it in last place. The only reason that I can attribute this to is that most people have never heard it. It is really only since March of this year that I have really ever heard it. This is just something to think about here. |
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I think you're right; I couldn't vote for Romanian in this poll because I haven't heard it spoken yet. Later tonight, I will probably find an online radio station that broadcasts in Romanian, just so I can hear what the language sounds like. |
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For anyone who is interested, Omniglot.com gives a sample text for every language and for many of them (including Romanian) a recording is included... It isn't very long but it might help to get a sense of the language. Here is the link:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/romanian.htm
(If you would like to see/hear another language, just replace 'romanian' in the link with for example, 'danish.' It should not be capitalized.)
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5810 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German
| Message 38 of 95 13 April 2009 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
mick33 wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
I am wondering if more people had heard Romanian
spoken, would it have a higher ranking? Personally, I believe it to be the most beautiful and was surprised to see it
in last place. The only reason that I can attribute this to is that most people have never heard it. It is really only
since March of this year that I have really ever heard it. This is just something to think about here. |
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I think
you're right; I couldn't vote for Romanian in this poll because I haven't heard it spoken yet. Later tonight, I will
probably find an online radio station that broadcasts in Romanian, just so I can hear what the language sounds
like. |
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For anyone who is interested, Omniglot.com gives a sample text for every language and for many of them
(including Romanian) a recording is included... It isn't very long but it might help to get a sense of the language.
Here is the link:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/romanian.htm
(If you would like to see/hear another language, just replace 'romanian' in the link with for example, 'danish.' It
should not be capitalized.) |
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Unfortunately the Italian recording is clearly non-native (though he has not a bad accent)
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5856 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 39 of 95 13 April 2009 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
For me, it is French. I like the French pronounciations rather the English pronounciations of the similiar words (For example, l'appartement and the apartment)
To the thread starter: You missed out Occitan! I am in Southern France now and there are many Occitan books and study materials. Occitan is very close to Catalan and yet you can see that it is also close to French especially in grammar.I think Occitan sounds like French spoken in Spanish,but I do not know whther this statement is correct........
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 40 of 95 13 April 2009 at 11:45pm | IP Logged |
QiuJP wrote:
To the thread starter: You missed out Occitan! I am in Southern France now and there are many Occitan books and study materials. Occitan is very close to Catalan and yet you can see that it is also close to French especially in grammar.I think Occitan sounds like French spoken in Spanish,but I do not know whther this statement is correct........ |
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I meant this to be for the major six Romance languages, which are generally listed as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, and Romanian. Languages such as Occitan, Sardinian, Corsican, Romansh, and others are usually considered minor Romance languages.
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