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| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6827 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes  Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 9 of 15 13 June 2009 at 11:41am | IP Logged |
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Though not being a language, I'd consider fast, I guess it all depends on the interpretation
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5815 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 10 of 15 13 June 2009 at 1:26pm | IP Logged |
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I watched some movies in Telugu and Tamil and their languages sound terribly fast to me, it's like watching a Hindi
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| JBI Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5697 days ago 46 posts - 67 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, English* Studies: Italian, Mandarin, French | Message 11 of 15 14 June 2009 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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Chinese (I can't tell which dialect) - though the syllables are formed slowly, the language, in terms of the amount of syllables needed to express a thought, is far shorter. Spanish, though it can be spoken faster, ultimately is a far more verbose language, in the sense that it takes far more to say one thing.
Of course, perhaps it is difficult to say, it would depend on the speaker (though perhaps there are people who speak Chinese wicked fast), and of course, Chinese would be held back because the syllables aren't very strung together, but I would think, given someone trained in quick speech, Chinese would win, as you can only accurately judge by how fast a syllable is spoken, and thereby how many syllables are needed to make a sentence. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6057 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 15 15 June 2009 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
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OP, you should check out Outsider (Korean rapper). He is the fastest rapper in the world in words per second according to Guiness. Check out the video "Better Than Yesterday" by MC Sniper. Outsider will appear in it.
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6192 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 15 16 June 2009 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
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Been listening to him since his first LP came out and plan to learn to rap 외톨이 by the time I return to Korea. I have a belief that while, yes he talks fast, he is only capable of that speed because of the way the Korean language works. If I can rap that song then I am correct. My main obstacle is me not having grown up speaking Korean.
Also he's the fastest in terms of syllables, not words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lifekiwi Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5703 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Portuguese Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 15 17 June 2009 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
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Unstressed languages are usually faster than unstressed ones. Languages like Russian and English. English speakers have to stress certain syllables to be understood, and often need to stress certain words to get the point across. I know this is present in Russian as well, but outside of that I don't know which languages utilize stress.
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| legasp Newbie Ireland Joined 5679 days ago 23 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Greek, Ancient Greek | Message 15 of 15 17 June 2009 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
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Spanish, hands down!
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