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Italian is too stacatto to be melodic in my opinion. Not to say it is unpleasant by any means (in fact it can be very sexy), but I think of it as more of a rhythm instrument than a melodic one. Castillian even moreso.
I think languages with initial syllabic stress and wide tonal range sound more melodic, so Norwegian and Swedish for me.
By this criteria, Hindi would be extremely melodic, but I wouldn't personally consider it to be particularly so.
Italian is too stacatto to be melodic in my opinion. Not to say it is unpleasant by any means (in fact it can be very sexy), but I think of it as more of a rhythm instrument than a melodic one. Castillian even moreso.
I think languages with initial syllabic stress and wide tonal range sound more melodic, so Norwegian and Swedish for me.
Nooo not Swedish. Had to listen to it on the train the other day and it really grated on my ears. Languages that use more vowels sound more melodic, like Finnish. French sounds quite melodic, and Italian.
Swedish has the most vowels of any Indo-European language. Have you heard much French being spoken? Not at all melodic.
Nooo not Swedish. Had to listen to it on the train the other day and it really grated on my ears. Languages that use more vowels sound more melodic, like Finnish. French sounds quite melodic, and Italian.
Swedish sounds way nicer than Finnish. Finns speaking Swedish with a distinct Finnish accent sounds pretty awful
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