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I think Brazilian Portuguese, because of its drawn out vowels and slow-sounding speech, sounds a lot less educated and classy than European Portuguese.
Another vote for Brazilian Portuguese. The best place to hear it is CAFÉ BRASIL, where you can find the wonderful podcasts of Luciano Pires, with fantastic music too!
I think Brazilian Portuguese, because of its drawn out vowels and slow-sounding speech, sounds a lot less educated and classy than European Portuguese.
I can't comment on the comparison, but to my ears Brazilian Portuguese sounds so rhythmic and melodic. I mean just the way they say oxygen or radio I love!
Well, all this is confused by accent. I would not put English at the top of the list, but I like Irish accented English, and my personal favorite is English spoken by an African whose main language is French. When you role the AfroFranco inflection into English, it sounds great.
I am a fan of the romance, celtic, and scandinavian languages for flow and melody. Except Danish, and some Spanish accents, they can get a bit too throaty for me. I like it when the sounds come from the front of the mouth (like Swedish and Norwegian).
I like Italian, Germany, Spanish, English, French.
I don't like Vietnamese (sounded shrill), Cantonese, Korean (sounds rude), Thai (when guys speak sounds like woman), Tagalog (too many "ng" sounds).
Well, I agree with Vietnamese and Korean as some of the least beautiful languages.
However, I disagree with Thai, and Cantonese Chinese.
I think they are some of the most beautiful languages.
Come on, when guys speak Thai they don't sound like women.
Most males that speak Thai still sound like males.
I also disagree with you about German, Spanish, and Italian. I think German, Spanish, and Italian are some of the least beautiful languages.
This was my list for most beautiful and least beautiful sounding languages:
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The most beautiful sounding languages to me are French, American English, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Japanese, British English, Hindi Indian, Swedish, Icelandic, Romanian, Danish, and Norweigan.
The ugliest sounding languages to me are German, Albanian/Serbian/Bosnian, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Irish/Irish english, Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Mongolian.
I think Brazilian Portuguese, because of its drawn out vowels and slow-sounding speech, sounds a lot less educated and classy than European Portuguese.
I agree that it seems to sound a lot less educated and classy than European Portuguese and for plenty of reasons.
This is also true with Central/South American spanish for most countries there compared to European spanish.
However, I still don't see how Spanish(Spain spanish or Central/Southern American) and Portuguese(Portugal Portuguese and Brazlian Portuguese) are some of the most beautiful sounding languages in the world. I disagree.
How do you feel about my list for most beautiful and least beautiful sounding languages?(It is in my post above this one).
I am surprised nobody mentioned Swedish, Hindi Indian, Norweigan, Danish, and Icelandic yet for some of the most beautiful sounding languages.
It also seems like nobody mentioned Arabic, Albanian, Bosnian, Serbian, Hungarian as some of the least beautiful languages which is surprising.
Serbian is not an ugly language but Hungarian is awful.
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