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Hoopskidoodle
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Studies: French

 
 Message 241 of 297
06 November 2009 at 11:03am | IP Logged 
Melnibonéan, I've never really cared for The Silmarillion/LotR.

Seriously though, IMO, it's French.

I also like the way Icelandic sounds. I don't understand a word of it. But, to my ears it sounds almost like someone speaking English gibberish. If fact, there are several amusing videos on Youtube where English speakers have captioned the video to the disturbingly beautiful Icelandic/Vonlenska song, "Hoppípolla" with English (Mondegreen) lyrics they imagined that Jón Þór Birgisson was singing.

Hoppípolla: Misheard English Lyrics from an Icelandic Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssQOtzP661A

I'd be curious to know if someone who actually speaks Icelandic can hear "and if (and if) the dachshund who shines a lot" even when they are reading it.

Edited by Hoopskidoodle on 06 November 2009 at 11:18am

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MorticiaMunster
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Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Slovak, Hungarian, Welsh

 
 Message 242 of 297
09 November 2009 at 10:26pm | IP Logged 
To me, SLOVAK is the most beautiful language to listen to. Czech is nice, but sounds harsher somehow to me. Slovak sounds so beautiful and it flows so nicely.
I also really like the sound of Hungarian.

I live in Canada, and to me, I don't really like the sound of French that I hear. However, the kind spoken in France sounds a lot nicer, gentler, elegant, etc. The kind here sounds harsh. So that's why I never think of French as sounding too beautiful (I say this because I notice a lot of people saying French).

Chinese sounds beautiful, atleast the Mandarin that I've heard.

I like Welsh accents - they sound beautiful to me. But the language, it's cool, but not what I'd call *beautiful* I suppose. Korean and Japanese have fun sounds to them, to me, but also, not what I'd say beautiful, really. But not ugly or anything either. Just cool sounding.

But yeah, for me, Slovak wins. :)

Edited by MorticiaMunster on 09 November 2009 at 10:30pm

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Chung
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 Message 243 of 297
09 November 2009 at 10:53pm | IP Logged 
MorticiaMunster wrote:
To me, SLOVAK is the most beautiful language to listen to. Czech is nice, but sounds harsher somehow to me. Slovak sounds so beautiful and it flows so nicely.
I also really like the sound of Hungarian.

I live in Canada, and to me, I don't really like the sound of French that I hear. However, the kind spoken in France sounds a lot nicer, gentler, elegant, etc. The kind here sounds harsh. So that's why I never think of French as sounding too beautiful (I say this because I notice a lot of people saying French).

Chinese sounds beautiful, atleast the Mandarin that I've heard.

I like Welsh accents - they sound beautiful to me. But the language, it's cool, but not what I'd call *beautiful* I suppose. Korean and Japanese have fun sounds to them, to me, but also, not what I'd say beautiful, really. But not ugly or anything either. Just cool sounding.

But yeah, for me, Slovak wins. :)


You're probably the second person here who has publicly rated Slovak that highly. :-)

My answer in 2005 to this question (on page 4 or 5 of this thread) still holds:

Chung wrote:

The most beautiful for me:

Hungarian.

With all due respect to the Czech boosters, I love hearing Slovak. While I do agree with the comment on Czech girls as I had seen quite a few fine specimens in Olomouc, I'm partial to Hungarian ones. :-)


Among Slavonic languages, Slovak to my eyes and ears is the most beautiful.
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ennime
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South Africa
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 Message 244 of 297
10 November 2009 at 3:20pm | IP Logged 
I take everything back I ever said about what the most beautiful language is... after
hearing Sesotho (Southern Sotho)... it is beautiful and romantic!!!
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Anthony_H
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 Message 245 of 297
21 November 2009 at 9:36pm | IP Logged 
OK, let me think about it:

French (Yeah, I know, obvious to the point of cliché, I just can't help myself, I just love it), Italian, Russian, Polish, Hebrew and Afrikaans (I see it as an "spiced up dutch")
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Aquila
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 Message 246 of 297
22 November 2009 at 3:22pm | IP Logged 
When you want to know what the most beautiful language is, you have to master all the languages of the world to compare them and after, your opinion will be still very subjective.

But of course you can have a preference.
I think that the most people judge foreign languages on their sound.
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ChristianVlcek
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 Message 247 of 297
04 April 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged 
I'm biased; I love the sound of Slovak.
Second for me is Polish, followed closely by Hungarian and French
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The Blaz
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 Message 248 of 297
04 April 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged 
Maybe this has already already been discussed in this thread, but when is one more
qualified to judge the beauty of (the sound of) a language... when you know the language
or when you do not know the language at all?



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