jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 289 of 297 26 November 2012 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
Is there a reason for two identical topics?
Most beautiful language
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Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 5093 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Vietnamese
| Message 290 of 297 26 November 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
Perhaps? 37 pages don't lie....
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Asal Bilingual Heptaglot Newbie YugoslaviaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4416 days ago 25 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, SpanishC2, Latin, English, Persian, Macedonian Studies: Norwegian
| Message 291 of 297 03 December 2012 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
I find Persian language to be the most beautiful to my ears..
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| Message 292 of 297 04 December 2012 at 3:48am | IP Logged |
TobaccoSmoke wrote:
I am from England but I think that most dialects of
"England English" sounds very grating.
RP sounds unnecessarily upper class and distant.
Cockney/Estuary English sounds very irritating like the speaker is trying too hard to be cool...The Yorkshire accent sounds a bit dumb at times..
A lot of Northern England accents in general sound aggressive and uneducated.
The West Country accent sounds dumb and very "rustic".
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Yep, you can count me as one who is annoyed and I am not English. You are entitled to your own opinions but if you hold these types of opinions, why go out of your way to offend people?
It's one thing to say that you do not like a particular accent and another thing entirely to extrapolate someone's regional accent into a judgment on intelligence. You have placed your own value judgments upon your fellow countrymen's accents and on your fellow countrymen themselves by proxy.
This is your second post? This is not a good way to start out your membership on one of the most diverse and civil forums on the internet. We don't take kindly to trolling.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 293 of 297 04 December 2012 at 5:56am | IP Logged |
TobaccoSmoke wrote:
In fact, I would speculate that the stereotype of English people being unfriendly and aloof comes from the fact that so many English accents sound rather unendearing and create the impression of unfriendliness and distance. |
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Lol, no way. The closest possibility is that they're a bit hard to understand without enough exposure.
Also no need to say this in a topic about the most beautiful language. There are also topics about the one you like least.
Edited by Serpent on 04 December 2012 at 5:57am
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 294 of 297 04 December 2012 at 1:01pm | IP Logged |
Tuscan Italian
Stavanger Norwegian
Baiano and Capixaba Brazilian Portuguese
Bavarian German
Brabantian Belgian Dutch
Porteño Argentine Spanish
St. John's Canadian English
Dublin Irish English
Geordie British English
Every language has some nice accents and some horrible ones,
so we should specify the dialect/variant.
Edited by Medulin on 04 December 2012 at 1:02pm
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Maecenas23 Triglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 4611 days ago 21 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Ukrainian*, Russian, English Studies: German
| Message 295 of 297 09 December 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
I think Ukrainian,Spanish and Italian are the most melodious sounding among european languages.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 296 of 297 09 December 2012 at 12:22am | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
Every language has some nice accents and some horrible ones, so we should specify the dialect/variant. |
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I love all variants of Finnish :P
I don't like it when people write it as if it was English, though. (I mean the compounds mostly)
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