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| CaoMei513 Senior Member United States Joined 6844 days ago 110 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 25 of 130 22 August 2006 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I personally like the sounds of the following languages:
Japanese (when spoken by girls) Mandarin Korean Welsh contrary to popular opinion, I can't stand the sound of French... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sinfonia Senior Member Wales Joined 6743 days ago 255 posts - 261 votes Speaks: English* | Message 26 of 130 23 August 2006 at 7:19am | IP Logged | ||
Don't worry, your secret's safe in Europe; you're not even in the tabloids ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alcina Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6696 days ago 51 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Italian | Message 27 of 130 28 August 2006 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm...is it me or is there a distinct split in favour of Germanic/Cantonese or
Romance/Mandarin? Seldom Germanic/Mandarin or Romance/Cantonese? Personally I lean towards the Germanic/Cantonese but, as others have said, this could be because my early language exposure was to English, German and Dutch (my English family lived in Germany near the Dutch border until I was three) and my initial exposure to Chinese was through Cantonese (I love Hong Kong movies!). Alcina 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anothermember Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6710 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 28 of 130 30 August 2006 at 6:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I like Korean for some reason, similar to Japanese but kind of more interesting sounds, although I'm liking Japanese more and more the more I study it so its catching up Korean. I know this is a topic about spoken language, but I also think the Korean writing system is one of the most attractive, always looks very neat and uniform and different to anything else.
Russian is also very nice, love the sound and I think it would be an interesting one to study, if I survive Japanese maybe I'll learn Russian next. Chinese languages I'm indifferent to, probably because I've never studied them. As for dislike, I really don't like romance languages, just don't. Perhaps because I was made to study French at school and that put me off, or something else, anyway, I can't put my finger on it. A lot of people say Italian is a beautiful language, well, it dosn't do anything for me at all, neither does French. No offense to people who speak romance languages, still... ...I also really hate English, despite being English myself! Really ugly language in my opinion, maybe due to over-exposure to the language its lost its charm for me, but I really don't see anything particularly good about it anyway. All of this, of course, is going mostly on sound. I'm not fluent yet in anything other than English although I have breifly studied a number of languages. Edited by anothermember on 30 August 2006 at 6:09am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| gothwolf Diglot Newbie Bulgaria Joined 6658 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, German Studies: Russian, Finnish | Message 29 of 130 01 September 2006 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me... the most beautiful language is Finnish (it's a very difficult language but sounds perfect...) Also I find for a beautiful language Russian... It's soooo loving
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6658 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 30 of 130 05 September 2006 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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My vote would go to either French or Italian. I have a theory that people's answers might be influenced by their experiences with those languages and their speakers. Stereotypes of the people who speak them may also matter.
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| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6824 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 31 of 130 05 September 2006 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure I can pick a favorite, so here are the ones that sound the
nicest to me (in no particular order): Russian Italian French Persian Portguguese Here are ones I don't think sound so great: Mandarin Norwegian Thai 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| linguanima Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6717 days ago 114 posts - 123 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Spanish, French Studies: Italian, Latin, German | Message 32 of 130 08 September 2006 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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They sound melodic to me:
Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Persian They sound soothing to me: French, Portuguese (European) It sounds very masculine to me: Arabic It sounds solemn to me: German They are the languages pleasant to my ears. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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