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I speak Tagalog. I didn't know some of you find it annoying. Well, Tagalog is not a pure language. It is has Spanish, English, and Chinese words in it.
Anyway, I like the Japanese language. Below is one of the Japanese songs I really love.
Every foreign language sounds funny to me when my ears are not used to them, albeit in an interesting way. Also, being a Vietnamese, I sort of understand why it is not pleasant to the ears. When I am in my "English mode" (speaking), I have trouble switching to "Viet mode" since it would sounds plain weird to my ears (when I do that, it does sound rather unappealing with weird tone, chopping sound and strange tempo/rhythm). However, when I am in "Viet mode", since I'm a native speaker, long conversations seem fine to me... Also, switching to English mode from Viet mode is okay to me, does not sound weird at all.
On the other hand, I like the rhythm of poems in Vietnamese and Mandarin (maybe due to the monosyllabic nature) more than those in English or French or other languages that I've heard (my subjective feeling, rather too patriotic though).
No they speak it properly, they just don't care if any people who don't live in their city can understand them. Who is anyone to say because they can't understand it that it isn't right?
Singaporean English sounds very funny. I like how they ALWAYS place the stress on the last syllable of a word, even for words like "butter" and "justifiable." It has a very unique tinge of Hokkien in it.
Hong Kong accents also, to a lesser degree, tend to stress the last syllable, but it is more guttural, as Cantonese is.
Is it a coincidence, then, that all the subway announcers/dictionary pronunciations are female?
I heard that Moscow metro has male announcers, though
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