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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 273 of 297 14 February 2012 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
I still like the sounds of the languages I wrote about, now I also like: Italian and some other regional languages and/or dialects of Italy such as, for example Sicilian and Friulian. All these languages make me think of fabulous food and beautiful music. Spoken Thai can sound like it is being sung or chanted as it is even more tonal than Swedish or Norwegian. I like the of sound Danish the diphthongs and soft consonants can sound really nice. Faroese sounds magical and I would learn it if I could do so without having to travel to the Faroe Islands (it's a very expensive flight for me). Edited by mick33 on 14 February 2012 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4701 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 274 of 297 14 February 2012 at 7:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I very much like the sound of the now dead pure English languages, of course the videos I have seen are only a pronunciation estimate. Yet when I hear those that are not yet dead such as Cornish and Gaelic I can not help but wonder what might have been if England was not a popular target for invasion and its language was left to change independantly from things such as Latin, Greek, and French influence.
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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4701 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 275 of 297 14 February 2012 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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WHAT about Mongolian language ? It sounds like a mix between Arabic and Russian to me ^^
And the Mongolian script looks awesome ! Damn cyrillic script, I hate you ! 
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4688 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 276 of 297 14 February 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently developed a theory as to why so many people find German so unpleasant to the ear. I tend to think that spoken German sounds somewhat neutral (big surprise, coming from a long-time speaker), and often strikes me as pleasant-sounding.
But then I watched Downfall. Everyone in the movie was angry, desperate, screaming at one another, and the German was just PAINFUL to listen to, not to mention that the subject matter was terribly disturbing. Nearly every German-language movie on Netflix appears to be a WWII movie. If most people experience German through movies such as these, that might explain a lot. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 277 of 297 15 February 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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The most beautiful;
1. Argentine Spanish 2. Brazilian Portuguese 3. Italian Most beautiful Germanic: Norwegian, Belgian Dutch Most beautiful Slavic: Macedonian, Slovak, Russian Most beautiful Asian: Sri Lankan Tamil Edited by Medulin on 15 February 2012 at 12:32am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rykketid Diglot Groupie Italy Joined 4833 days ago 88 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: French | Message 278 of 297 16 February 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I really like how Arabic, Hebrew and Welsh sound.
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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4666 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 279 of 297 17 February 2012 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Off the top of my head, I would say Russian and Khmer.
Interesting that someone would choose Sri Lankan Tamil. I was looking for Tamil on Youtube and found some songs that were (as far as I could tell from the video) propaganda for the Tamil Tigers. The sound of the words was just hypnotizing, though, and really enjoyable. Is the sound of SR Tamil so different from Indian Tamil, I wonder? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 280 of 297 20 February 2012 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
Sri Lanka Tamil sounds like Ancient Tamil or Malayalam, it does not have nasal vowels present in spoken Tamil Nadu Tamil, nor it adds [j] before initial vowels (yethu instead of ethu, yerumbu instead of erumbu...) When Sri Lankan Tamils go to Tamil Nadu, Indian Tamilians think they're Malayalis from Kerala ;) Spoken Sri Lanka Tamil is close to Formal written Tamil. in India, spoken and written Tamil are in a diglossic situation, they're almost two different languages (like in the case of Arabic). copy and paste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILh0gSnvPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKrqNc3VLYg Edited by Medulin on 20 February 2012 at 3:42am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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