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Old 05-23-2011, 08:32 PM
 
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Interesting post.
In your opinion, 2 languages sound the ugliest, and 2 the most beautiful, yet they all belong to the same linguistic group (Romance languages).

This is not intending to sound like any criticism on my part, I just find it interesting.

Yes, but phonetically speaking they are different;French and Italian for example, no matter how much they have in common grammar-wise.
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Old 05-23-2011, 09:30 PM
 
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Yes, but phonetically speaking they are different;French and Italian for example, no matter how much they have in common grammar-wise.
I know that. This is not what I was discussing on my post.
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Old 05-23-2011, 10:31 PM
 
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I know that. This is not what I was discussing on my post.
Sorry so what was your point?
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Old 05-23-2011, 10:33 PM
 
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Anything but Russian, German or any Eastern European nations.

And Arabic
Are you sure that Russian sounds THAT ugly?


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Old 05-23-2011, 11:07 PM
 
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Personally, I think french and Lebanese arabic (softer than other arabic dialect) are beautiful.
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Old 05-24-2011, 12:34 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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I think that Russian sounds beautiful...
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Old 05-24-2011, 01:43 AM
 
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There are a lot of beautiful European and Asian languages.

However, there are also some ugly European and Asian languages that exist too at the same time.

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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.
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Old 05-24-2011, 02:00 AM
 
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There is no most beautiful language to me, but some of the languages are
nice listen to even if you don't understand a word.

I like French, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and English with
Aussie Accent.

Don't like German, Cantonese Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Arabic.
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Old 05-24-2011, 02:19 AM
 
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There is no most beautiful language to me, but some of the languages are
nice listen to even if you don't understand a word.

I like French, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and English with
Aussie Accent.

Don't like German, Cantonese Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Arabic.
I agree with you that French and Mandarin Chinese are some of the most beautiful languages.

Also, I agree that German, Vietnamese, Korean, and Arabic are some of ugliest sounding languages.

It is interesting how Mandarin Chinese is one of the most beautiful languages while Vietnamese and Korean seem like some of the least beautiful languages because in some ways these languages are in a similar language family but expressed so differently from each other!
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Old 05-24-2011, 02:15 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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One I haven't seen mentioned is Swahili. Its a beautiful, musical language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania. This is partly in English but there's enough Swahili to give you an idea of what it sounds like (in a song at least):


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