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| Arti Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 7011 days ago 130 posts - 165 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: French, Czech | Message 129 of 297 25 February 2006 at 11:51am | IP Logged | |||||
In my university there was a girl from Croatia, the only one thing that distinguished her from others was her a bit strange sirname, her Russian was perfect. Slow Croatian looks like Russian, fast Croatian, like Italian;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6860 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German | Message 130 of 297 25 February 2006 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I agree with those who say that "my favorite language is the one I'm currently learning or focusing on". This thought stimulates always my desire to learn more and more a specific language.
Nevertheless I find that each language has its own charming effect on me. French is sophisticated, aristocratic, well-refined... -how would you say that? poshy, maybe. In the other hand, Canadian French -particularly that from Quebec is spontaneous, familiar, warm. Italian is like singing (it could written on a music staff) is melodious, is temperamental. It's the artists' language. English is formal, is practical, synthetic. It's the commercial language. It's the busyness men's language (as we say in Mexico) German sounds energic, powerful and it's highly precise. It's the scientists' language. Brazilian Portuguese is sweet, rythmical, is melodious like italian. When spoken fast, it's just samba! Spanish -my mother tongue- is soft, is just beautiful. I like the way my own language sounds (I could realize that when I lived abroad). Chilean Spanish accent is my favorite. Among the native mexican languages Zapoteco (which is spoken in Oaxaca) is my favorite. It's both sweet and elegant. It reminds me of Japanese. It's got many words ending in "u" and it's a tonal language. Finally, among the languages I don't speak at all, I've heard some friends speaking Tagalog (Pilipino) and I liked it very much because it's warm and rythmical. In fact, untill now I have not found a language I don't like at all! Edited by Alfonso on 26 February 2006 at 4:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nox Diglot Groupie Croatia Joined 6860 days ago 62 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English Studies: German | Message 131 of 297 26 February 2006 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Finaly someone! :) People in a place near mine speak very fast, with a specific accent - just like Italians! And yet, englishs say it's jus like Russian. Well, I like both. I was thinking about learning Russian, but I'm not sure if it would be so easy as people say. Do you know how long it took her to learn Russian? Do many Ruassians speak English? Edited by nox on 26 February 2006 at 6:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Steve4nLanguage Diglot Newbie Taiwan Joined 6831 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 132 of 297 12 March 2006 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know there are hundreds of languages out there that I've never heard spoken, and I'm always intrigued when I hear one but cannot identify it.
Personally, as far as beautiful sounds and rhythm go, I like Portuguese (lovely mixture of Spanish and French sounds, to my ears), Farsi (majestic, rhythmic, but not too guttural), and Samoan (I love all those vowel sounds). As far as sounding purely "exotic" and interesting to me, I vote for any tonal languague (like Cantonese) and any "click" language (like Xhosa) since they have sounds so unlike English. By the way, I remember hearing a non-English speaker(can't remember what language he spoke, though) on TV imitating someone speaking English, and although most of the words didn't make sense, it seemed he threw in a lot of hissing "S" and "Z" sounds to make it "sound English." Well, I guess that's what it sounded like to him. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kzjabay Newbie China Joined 6830 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Kazakh* Studies: English, Russian | Message 133 of 297 13 March 2006 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm a Kazakh, which maybe a less-known Turkic people.I think as long as a language is delicate and expressive , it should be regarded as the most beautiful language. I enjoy reading our poets' works because they can describe things what most people can't express with rythm and wittedness. I just want to say that the most beautiful language is the one you speak best. So I think Kazakh and Chinese are the most beautiful languages.
That is my humble opinion. Edited by kzjabay on 13 March 2006 at 3:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ihaveacomputer Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6832 days ago 21 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi, Punjabi Studies: Urdu, Italian | Message 134 of 297 13 March 2006 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm, I am not sure which I would identify as the most beautiful, but hearing Hindi or Urdu from the mouth of a child makes me giggle. It sounds so cute, for some reason!
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6889 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 135 of 297 23 March 2006 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I personally think Russian is the most beautiful-sounding language I've ever heard. But then again, there are a lot of languages I've never heard before. =)
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| easyboy82 Pentaglot Groupie Italy Joined 6829 days ago 72 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek | Message 136 of 297 23 March 2006 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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French!
And Italian (my native language) spoken by a native french speaker with a french accent sounds to most Italians very charming! :oD Recently i fell in love with modern Greek ( i already studied Ancient Greek along with Latin for 5 years at Liceo Classico,which is the Italian kind of High School for classical and litterary studies) Edited by easyboy82 on 23 March 2006 at 4:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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