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| pielover24 Newbie United States Joined 5701 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 33 of 44 28 April 2009 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I must agree with many people about the Romance languages. I just find them so boring & plain!! I don't know why but I just don't find them very exotic...maybe because I hear them so often.
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5905 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes  | Message 34 of 44 28 April 2009 at 5:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Regarding Romance languages in general, I do believe they are felicitous vehicles of literature, and have in fact been the recipients of a disproportionate amount of the Western world's most gifted pens. If one is drawn to languages by the quantity and quality of the books offered by them, Romance languages are a bargain. I can see though how they'd fail to excite the imagination of those seeking the exotic.
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6378 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 35 of 44 28 April 2009 at 7:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic and other languages related to it sound vile to my ears. That's about it.
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| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5989 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 36 of 44 28 April 2009 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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The only language I dislike is Spanish.
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| hoseline Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5695 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes | Message 37 of 44 28 April 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I dont think there is such a thing as an ugly sounding language.
Each language I think is as beautiful sounding as the others its just that youre not used to hearing words like it. Well for other people a language you speak natively might sound annoying too. Its just a matter of being used to it. http://www.econtrader.com Edited by hoseline on 28 April 2009 at 8:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emilia Newbie Italy Joined 6146 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 38 of 44 30 April 2009 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm actually not interested in learning most of the world's languages and find them boring and/or unpleasant to the ear. This particularly includes culturally distant languages, such as native American languages or far East ones, but even some of the nearer ones (e.g. Slavic ones) are not really my cup of tea and are something I'd dabble in a bit (and I did), but wouldn't pursue fluency.
I like Semitic languages, though, the whole Romance family (including dialects within one language), Greek and German (not the whole of Germanic family, just German). Those are the ones I'm learning or would like to learn in the future. On the other hand, I really can't imagine learning a language like, say, Korean, unless I went to live there. Nothing against it, it's just terribly uninteresting to me and irrelevant for my life in the whole. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6671 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 39 of 44 30 April 2009 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I absolutely agree. While they might seem "boring" at first sight, the Romance language offer an incomparable wealth of literature and considering that they are all relatively easily to learn (especially after already having studied another Romance language), they really are a bargain. Learning all four major Romance languages (i.e. Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian) probably wouldn't take more time than studying Chinese, for example. PS: A rather subjective side-note: I just can't understand how anyone could be annoyed by the sound of Portuguese or Italian... Edited by Marc Frisch on 30 April 2009 at 11:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5806 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 40 of 44 01 May 2009 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Just to clarify. Romance languages and their history don't bore me at all. I just find the languages themselves boring to study because they're all so very much alike. The grammar is what I dislike most about them. There isn't any rational explanation for this, apart maybe from the fact that I've been having to study them for so long.
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