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| GoingGoingGone Newbie United States Joined 5455 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 185 of 297 24 July 2009 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
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In my opinion, French
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6059 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 186 of 297 24 July 2009 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
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I like the sound of Italian. However, any language can sound ugly or beautiful, depending on speaker and circumstances. The sound of drunks arguing in the street, for example, is ugly whatever the language.
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| gbarv Groupie Cocos (Keeling) Islands Joined 5424 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes | Message 187 of 297 25 July 2009 at 4:19am | IP Logged |
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I used to think that French was the most beautiful language in the world but now that I know it quite well it just sounds normal. However I still do fiund it beautiful when hearing a good actor perfoming a good audiobook, but even my native Spanish sounds great that way. Edited by gbarv on 25 July 2009 at 4:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5770 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 188 of 297 25 July 2009 at 4:57am | IP Logged |
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I think Japanese. Just listen to this voice...
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| PiedraFilosofal Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5449 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 189 of 297 28 July 2009 at 2:32am | IP Logged |
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I used to think French was the most beautiful sounding language. Now, I'm much more picky about it. If it is a woman with a soft voice speaking French, then I still think it is beautiful but usually I find it annoying. I think Spanish is very beautiful but I think songs sound the best in English. I love Russian but I think German is one of the ugliest sounding languages, along with Mandarin Chinese.
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| TannerS Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5396 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 190 of 297 30 July 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
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I haven't read the whole thread (24 pages!), so I can't say if it has been said before, but I just wanted to throw Russian out there as well.
Of course it's not florid in the way French or Italian are, but I find the palatized (I hope that's the right word-I'm no linguist!) consonants of Д and Т to sound very calm and rich. Additionally, the fact that there is regular use of the Ж sound is nice, too. Of course, I'm just coming from studying German: a language which, in spite of all my interest, I cannot categorize as "beautiful". Sure, I appreciate the sound of the romance languages and maybe I'll regret posting this if I start to get some strong negative opinions on this, but I'm just throwing it out there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5625 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 191 of 297 30 July 2009 at 10:34am | IP Logged |
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European: French, like everybody else..
THAI is the "French" of East Asia and sounds cool and sophisticated too (although personally I can't understand it at all). The other major languages in E Asia that I am familiar with are not as gracious and beautiful sounding. However Thai always sounds charming and it has a stylish, cool, pretty, quirky culture too -- there is nothing not to like about it.. Why aren't there any Thai learners on this site? Edited by cordelia0507 on 30 July 2009 at 10:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6315 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 192 of 297 30 July 2009 at 2:14pm | IP Logged |
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Italian (spoken)
Polish (written) And almost all other languages too, they all have their own beauty. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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