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Old 07-04-2013, 10:23 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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My favorite sounding:
French
European Spanish
British English
Irish English
High German
Serbo-Croatian
Japanese
Vietnamese
Canadian English (rising as spoken in Manitoba and northern Ontario)

Least favorite:
Dutch
Arabic
Mexican Spanish
Southern American English
Quebec French
Cantonese
Tagalog
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Old 07-04-2013, 10:24 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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There seems to be a misconception among English speakers than Spanish from Spain is called in Castilian as opposed to the Spanish spoken in the Americas. Actually Spanish and Castilian are synoymous and both speakers from Spain and speakers from the Americas used both terms interchangeably.
^this thank you for mentioning this.
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Old 07-04-2013, 02:22 PM
 
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What do you think are the most beautiful sounding languages?

I think Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic, and English spoken by some Irish, English, and Scottish people (I've never heard Welsh accents so I can't compare).
Wow you really think Arabic sounds beautiful?
I think French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Greek sound good
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Old 07-04-2013, 02:33 PM
 
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Latin sounds beautiful. French doesn't sound very beautiful to me, but I like Italian and Portuguese, especially its Brasilian dialect. Spanish can be beautiful, but mostly its Latin American dialects. Hungarian sounds very harsh. Old English IMO sounds better than Modern English (for example, I like Old English diphtongs ea and eo, which are absent in Modern English).
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Old 07-04-2013, 10:02 PM
 
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Russian, English, French, Spanish and Italian
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Old 07-07-2013, 12:15 AM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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Latin sounds beautiful. French doesn't sound very beautiful to me, but I like Italian and Portuguese, especially its Brasilian dialect. Spanish can be beautiful, but mostly its Latin American dialects. Hungarian sounds very harsh. Old English IMO sounds better than Modern English (for example, I like Old English diphtongs ea and eo, which are absent in Modern English).
Do you think this sounds very harsh?


Gloomy Sunday -Original, Hungarian Version - YouTube
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Old 09-13-2013, 02:55 AM
 
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Are you sure that Russian sounds THAT ugly?
Well... since you put it THAT way...
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Old 09-13-2013, 03:13 AM
 
Location: mainland but born oahu
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Aloha,

A gorgeous language is ’Olelo Hawai’i unfortunately only about a 1000 native speakers know the language. No not talking pidgin.
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Old 09-13-2013, 03:23 AM
 
Location: Glasgow Scotland
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Is this the language..
E Ola Ka
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Old 09-13-2013, 03:44 AM
 
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Aloha,

A gorgeous language is ’Olelo Hawai’i unfortunately only about a 1000 native speakers know the language. No not talking pidgin.
It is, indeed, a gorgeous language. I had no idea that there were so few speakers left.
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