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| schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3332 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 15 06 April 2015 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
It reminds me of the Burmese language. There're a lot of nice sounding Asian languages. Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3332 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* | Message 10 of 15 06 April 2015 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||
English is made up of so many other languages: old German, Latin, french, Spanish, Scandinavian and other languages. There so many words that the English language has borrowed into its lexicon. One of my favorite sound English words is serendipity. Do you have a favorite? Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5547 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 15 06 April 2015 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4302 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 12 of 15 07 April 2015 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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When spoken by young women, then Danish and French. Don't know why, maybe because of the
soft sound. Danish is made especially charming by the stød. The milder forms of Finnland Swedish are also nice (ie. the ones that don't sound like a Finnish native speaker talking Swedish). Nordlandsk sounds great no matter the gender. Sunnmøre dialects are also great. When spoken by men, then Nynorsk with Sogn accent (I don't think I've ever heard anybody from there speaking Sognamaol, so no comment on that). I also like Icelandic and Setesdalen dialect in this class. Dutch is also quite pleasant independently of the gender. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4643 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 13 of 15 07 April 2015 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course, this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor old/rare/distant languages and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the most. Is it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding to western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple phonetic systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French, Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and so they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap (influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering.. I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way as the other foreign languages. Edited by caam_imt on 07 April 2015 at 10:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| schmoo Newbie United States Joined 3332 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 15 09 April 2015 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course,this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor old/rare/distant languages and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the most. Is it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding to western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple phonetic systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French, Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and so they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap (influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering.. I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way as the other foreign languages.[/QUOTE] I think its a combination of everything you said. Your last question makes me wonder how popular the German language would be today if WWI and WWII never occurred. I now that a lot of German-Americans were persecuted for war hysteria. It force many German-american immigrants to change their last names, for example Schmidt become smith. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 15 of 15 10 April 2015 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Swedish is my favourite by far
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