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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 17 of 46 09 March 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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What are we comparing: sound, word formation, morphology, syntax or what?
"but I can tell you in the cases of Norwegian and Indonesian, I was turned off of those languages because I simply didn't like the sound of them" My parents say the same about English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4865 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 18 of 46 09 March 2012 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Swahili. Hands down. (and closely related Bantu languages, of which there are between 250 and 600 depending on who is counting.)
Italian a distant second place. Listen to some samples of Swahili here: http://swahililanguage.stanford.edu/LISTENING.html 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 19 of 46 09 March 2012 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think the best languages for opera are French and Spanish!
Portuguese definitely deserves to be mentioned in this thread. Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Cesaria Evora, Amalia Rodrigues... Or simply spoken on the street. I also like how German sounds sometimes. Too bad Ukrainian didn't make the cut... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4847 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 20 of 46 09 March 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Now that you mentioned Ukrainian (a minor language), I'd love it if Catalan were a huge language, it sounds magnificent 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 21 of 46 09 March 2012 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Simply the sound alone. I could seek out different examples, perhaps, but I have enough to keep me busy with the languages I already practice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 22 of 46 10 March 2012 at 12:29am | IP Logged | ||
Chung posted this in another thread
initially the song sounded like Indonesian to me, heh! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4677 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 23 of 46 10 March 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Out of those i'd say Arabic is the most beautiful. It has this kind of melodic flow but at the same time it sounds very
harsh and guttural. It can be highly poetic and sound like a scholar's language (Standard Arabic), or it can be aggressive and colloquial (dialect, especially maghrebi dialect). The grammatical structure is logical and the script has a kind of mystical beauty, also it's very beautiful when sung (unlike japanese). Just listen to the many islamic anasheed on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3SesV2pzWk 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ojorolla Diglot Groupie France Joined 4965 days ago 90 posts - 130 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 24 of 46 11 March 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Sparrows sound more beautiful to me than any languages mentioned.
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