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| Roq71 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6593 days ago 63 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Haitian Creole | Message 145 of 297 02 August 2007 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Can we do a poll on this?
I like French, but the sounds are a little too particular to be the most beautiful. I think Portuguese wins. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| joan.carles Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6332 days ago 332 posts - 342 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Hungarian, Russian, Georgian | Message 146 of 297 03 August 2007 at 2:27am | IP Logged | |||||
Or also its offspring Afrikaans, it sounds really ugly. But of course, please Southafricans, no offence. For me, Russian, Chinese and Hebrew sound really great, I love them all. And I like how Arabic sounds, so strong, so powerful. Or Hungarian, with its broken rhythm. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Karakorum Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6568 days ago 201 posts - 232 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written)* Studies: French, German | Message 147 of 297 03 August 2007 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
Flemish Dutch actually sounds kind of good. Nederlandic Dutch, however, is pretty much nails scratching a blackboard. My new pet-peeve is Indian languages. I can't appreciate them however hard I try. And I can't even tell the difference between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, they all sound "wrong" to me. I can't explain it, but Indian languages (to me) sound like the speaker has a speech impediment. I really appreciate Indian culture and Indian people but the sound of the language(s) drives me nuts. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| el topo Diglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6759 days ago 66 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Dutch | Message 148 of 297 05 August 2007 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's so true. Dutch spoken in Belgium is mush softer. Some dialects sound almost like Swedish. 1 person has 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 149 of 297 05 August 2007 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Unlike the posters above, I find Dutch a very beautiful language, both the pronunciation and the way it looks written.
Obviously I also find Finnish very beautiful ;o) I love everything about this language. Actually I find almost all languages beautiful, except maybe French - I don't find it ugly, just neutral. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruivabela Newbie United States kellys-langs.blogspo Joined 6545 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Serbian | Message 150 of 297 06 August 2007 at 6:16am | IP Logged | |||||
I feel the same. I love the sound and look of Dutch. I'm also fond of Brazilian Portuguese. I think Brazilian singers have the best voices. They sound so easy breezy. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| audiolang Diglot Senior Member Romania Joined 6319 days ago 108 posts - 109 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Romanian*, English | Message 151 of 297 06 August 2007 at 7:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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French, both charming and rich in texture.Music to my ears.
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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6774 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 152 of 297 14 August 2007 at 9:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, obviously it is all very subjective.
I happened to listen a recording of Old English recently (I think it was Beowulf), and it sounded pretty cool. There is something mysterious about the way it sounds. I also like the sound of Latin, as in the movie "Passion of the Christ", for example, though I think some of the Italian actors brought too much of the Italian accent into the language, but the Latin of the guy who played Pilate (a Bulgarian, I believe), sounded pretty cool. Out of the modern languages, I like German. Many Russians, even thouse who were born after World War II have mixed feeling about the German language, and I guess I myself still do at times, for example when I hear the word "Polizei", or whatever other German words may be most common in Russian-made movies about WWII. But German does sounds good. When I was just learning English, it sometimes sounded like Chinese to me at times, strangely enough - must have been because of all those diphtongs. Maybe the reason I like German is that, unlike English, Germans seem to enjoy their consonants, kinda like the Russians do. I also like how Slavic languages sound. Ukrainian and Belorussian are too close for comfort and they often sound like strange ways of mispronouncing Russian, but other languages, like Polish and Slovak and Bulgarian all sound good to me - perhaps because I understand less. I like how my native Russian sounds, too. To be fair, though, Russians do evil things to their vowels, so if I were outside of Slavic culture looking in, Ukrainian language would perhaps sound better to me than Russian. Anyway, I would agree with those who think any language can sound beautiful when one is listening to a good speaker. Edited by Russianbear on 14 August 2007 at 10:00am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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