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12-23-2013, 06:16 PM
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Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Originally Posted by Dawn.Davenport
Are you talking about the more nasal Northern Mexican accent or the more mumbled Central Mexican accent?
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All of them. there are people in my area who have come from all over Mexico. Where ever they came from, it never sounds like European Spanish. |
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12-23-2013, 06:25 PM
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Location: Leeds, UK
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Ugliest BY FAR: Dutch
Sorry, 'Netherlanders' (not correct terminology, i know).   |
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12-24-2013, 03:41 PM
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Dutch is atrocious, without a doubt. No offense to people though.
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12-25-2013, 01:09 AM
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Prettiest:
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Ugliest:
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12-25-2013, 05:33 AM
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Location: Leeds, England
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Worst to hear: German, Dutch, Jamaican English (Patois), Bulgarian and Korean
Best: Italian and Spanish
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12-25-2013, 06:22 AM
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Prettiest :
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12-25-2013, 07:53 AM
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Prettiest are: French, Italian, educated Hindi, and Tamil
Ugliest are: Mandarin and Arabic.
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12-25-2013, 08:02 AM
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Location: Czech Republic
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Ugliest -- Cantonese, Mandarin,
German
Prettiest -- Spanish
French
Italian
Romance languages are the best sounding languages in the world.
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12-25-2013, 11:42 AM
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Location: Auburn, New York
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentoo
All of them. there are people in my area who have come from all over Mexico. Where ever they came from, it never sounds like European Spanish.
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I don't think people from the South of Mexico speak fast at all.
I give you that basically nobody from Mexico sounds like their from Madrid, but in Galicia, in Northwest Spain, people speak extremely fast, with a very high-pitched nasal accent. |
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12-25-2013, 11:53 AM
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Status:
"Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."
(set 9 days ago)
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Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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I like some Romance languages, Portuguese, Catalan, and some Italian, but in general the alternating syllable stress makes the ones with hard consonants and short vowels unpleasant.
On the other hand, Germanic languages, having initial stress sounds nicer to me when the language tends to have softer consonants like English, Norwegian, Swedish, and many German accents.
To me rhythm of a language is more important than consonantal quality.
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