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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5622 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 249 of 297 04 April 2010 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Every language is beautiful. Some may sound a little harsh, but the written side could be awesome! For example, I don't know anybody who thinks that German is the most beautiful spoken language, but to see a piece of German written in good cursive is marvellous.
Italian does sound very musical, I like it better than French. And in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAELzQLX02U you can really hear the beauty and music in Spanish (even I notice it, and I'm a native speaker and Spanish is mainly something from day-to-day). Other language I find beautiful is Greek... either Modern or Ancient. I want to learn Modern Greek in the future. English does sound good to me, too. Edited by Carisma on 04 April 2010 at 11:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 250 of 297 09 April 2010 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I think all languages have their own beauty, although the most pleasing languages I have ever had the pleasure of listening to are
1) Farsi (Persian) 2) German (yes I like it!) 3) Japanese Funnily enough I'm only learning one of them 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5464 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 251 of 297 09 April 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Many people say that German is harsh and could never be described as beautiful, but I
remember once in a German seminar at university where our little old German lady professor read Faust to us. It was spell-bindingly beautiful and changed my opinion about the supposed harshness of German forever. I've recommended this on another post somewhere, but for anyone who doesn't think Russian is beautiful go watch Loshad' v tumanye (sorry, can't do Cyrillic on my computer) on YouTube. Again, spell-binding. I love Polish but I must admit I would have difficulty calling it a beautiful language. Japanese I think is too monotonous to be called beautiful. Thai has to get the award for the cutest language! When a high tone or a falling tone comes at the end of a sentence it sounds so sweet! Not sure what I think about Georgian yet. It's definitely a cool sound, and I love the glottal stop sound of ყ, even though I'm useless at actually pronouncing it, but I'll reserve judgement on whether or not I think it's beautiful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miznia Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5351 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Cantonese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese | Message 252 of 297 09 April 2010 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
Well since it's all a matter of opinion I guess this is as well. But I do have some fear that I will lose appreciation for certain languages if I become too proficient with them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 253 of 297 09 April 2010 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Haha they lose that alien extravagance that they one used to have and you realize that to you they just seem like regular speech now, gone are the days of novelty XD.
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| Stephen Groupie Australia Joined 6411 days ago 61 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 254 of 297 09 April 2010 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I would say that the Gaelic sound of a softly spoken Scots lassie is the most beautiful sound on earth.
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| haliros Newbie United States Joined 5783 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 255 of 297 10 April 2010 at 7:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I think Scottish Gaelic is one of the most beautiful languages out there: it has the dancing rhythm of Irish, combined with subtle, yet harsh sounds. I think the combination is absolutely magical.
I also think Japanese is a gorgeous language, but no quite for the same reason. When I listen to Japanese, I often find myself thinking about why they're saying what they're saying, and why they say something in a particular way, or other historical aspects of the language itself. The way Japanese is structured is just so intriguing to me! 8D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 256 of 297 10 April 2010 at 8:24am | IP Logged | ||
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nan ja kore wa ! just means "what is this?" but the way its said makes it sound like " what the @*#$ is going on here #!@&($" XD
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