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| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4387 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 1 of 47 15 October 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I came across a couple of old posts like this while searching the forum earlier, and I thought it would be interesting to bring it up again.
So, which language do you think is the most beautiful in the world? Of course, beauty can be many things - the way the language sounds is perhaps the most obvious interpretation, but perhaps the way it looks in writing is also important to some of you? Oh, and how about the way it expresses things? Some languages have very interesting ways of formulating thoughts and ideas, and what is just words to most people could be a work of art to someone else. I'm just throwing ideas around, just to remind you that "beautiful" can be hard to define, However, I'm still sure we all have our favorites? Which language would you vote for? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4925 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 47 15 October 2012 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
What's yours? I notice you haven't offered one up as your favorite. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4387 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 3 of 47 15 October 2012 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
No, because I wanted to keep the first post "clean" and not appear as if I was trying to "lean" the poll in a certain direction. I was going to vote after a few more people had casted their votes first. But now that you ask: It's Czech. I love the way it sounds and the way it is written, with all the diacritics. Your turn, now? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5394 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 4 of 47 15 October 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Which is the most beautiful man or woman?
To you, the one (or ones) you have chosen, I hope for you. The same with languages ... PS. But sometimes language learning it is more like "the taming of the shrew" ;-) Edited by Cabaire on 15 October 2012 at 7:19pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4925 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 47 15 October 2012 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My tastes change as I am exposed to more languages.
I used to think that Polish was quite harsh sounding, until I started to study it. I find it quite pleasant now. I used to think that Dutch was also a really harsh sounding language, until I got some exposure to Afrikaans and learned to listen a bit more carefully to some of the differences between the two. I used to think that Ojibwe was an incredibly beautiful, melodic language. I still do, actually, but as my exposure to the language has increased, the "specialness", for lack of a better word, has decreased. I will probably always consider Spanish to be "my" most beautiful language, because it was my first foreign language and I can express myself best in it. The topic is so subjective that the only valid answer is your own personal one. That's why I brought up the fact that you hadn't mentioned your own favorite. R. == 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 47 15 October 2012 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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There are two moments when a language seems to me to be the most beautiful language in the world. First, when I'm just starting to understand it. Second, any time it is used to express a genuine emotion. In other words, any language has the potential to be the most beautiful language.
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| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5101 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 7 of 47 15 October 2012 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Italian, Finnish, Russian, perhaps.
Strongly vocalic languages like Swahili, the Polynesian languages, and Amerndian languages like Cherokee and Ojibwe sound very pleasantly, but give a somewhat monotone impression in the long run. Edited by Aquila123 on 15 October 2012 at 8:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6951 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 47 15 October 2012 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
See here, here, and here for this small chestnut of a discussion.
Those views still stand :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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