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View Poll Results: What language sounds best to you
French 131 31.87%
Italian 62 15.09%
Spanish 37 9.00%
English 47 11.44%
Russian 22 5.35%
Hindi 5 1.22%
Mandarin 8 1.95%
German 28 6.81%
Arabic 12 2.92%
Other (specify) 59 14.36%
Voters: 411. You may not vote on this poll

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Unread 05-15-2009, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Olympus Mons, Mars
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Default Best sounding language

Which is the language that sounds the best to you..."best" however you define it, sexy, smooth, upscale, refined whatever...
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Unread 05-15-2009, 06:39 PM
 
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French
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Unread 05-15-2009, 07:04 PM
 
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I'd say Italian because very syllabic and it flows well. I don't think I sound well speaking French but it's neck and neck with Italian, I like Spanish too. I like all the Romance languages really.
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Unread 05-15-2009, 07:07 PM
 
Location: Vermont, grew up in Colorado and California
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I say Spanish.
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Unread 05-15-2009, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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Of the Romance languages, I like French and Portuguese. Italian sounds nice coming from a beautiful woman. Spanish sounds staccato and harsh like a WWII battle.

Of the Germanic languages, I like Norwegian and Swedish followed by certain dialects of German. I don't especially like the sound of Dutch or English which sound clipped and in the case of Dutch, a little bit too guttural.


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Unread 05-15-2009, 08:45 PM
 
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This survey is not accurate, particularly when you put it in the world's forum. Definitely must people're choosing thier languages, in addition the the comparison between languages has been avoided as a topic in the linguistics field.

But I think -as a personal sentiment- you can find these things -which you bring up- in any language which has great literature.

All the best.
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Unread 05-15-2009, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Andersonville, Chicago
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I'd say Italian because very syllabic and it flows well. I don't think I sound well speaking French but it's neck and neck with Italian, I like Spanish too. I like all the Romance languages really.

I love Italian. It sounds sexy and dangerous !
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Unread 05-16-2009, 12:01 AM
 
Location: California
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French is a beautiful language, IMO. I think it will win, hands down .
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Unread 05-16-2009, 12:32 AM
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French, but another major language you didn't put on is Japanese. I don't like the sound of it much myself but I know lots of people who do. Also Korean.
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Unread 05-16-2009, 12:47 AM
 
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My vote is for French. Just sounds so smoooooooooooth.
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