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schmoo
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 Message 9 of 15
06 April 2015 at 3:43pm | IP Logged 
SomeGuy wrote:
I my case it's vietnamese : v=gWZ620nh_S0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZ620nh_S0
but i like tones and glottal stops in general


It reminds me of the Burmese language. There're a lot of nice sounding Asian
languages.

Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:55pm

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schmoo
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 Message 10 of 15
06 April 2015 at 3:51pm | IP Logged 
guiguixx1 wrote:
I LOVE the sound of English! (not a very exotic choice though).
Among all the language
that I have tried, or can speak, it's by very favorite. I couldn't say why,
though...


English is made up of so many other languages: old German, Latin, french, Spanish,
Scandinavian and other languages. There so many words that the English language has
borrowed into its lexicon. One of my favorite sound English words is serendipity. Do you
have a favorite?   

Edited by schmoo on 09 April 2015 at 3:54pm

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Bao
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 Message 11 of 15
06 April 2015 at 6:12pm | IP Logged 
Yes.
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daegga
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 Message 12 of 15
07 April 2015 at 2:21am | IP Logged 
When spoken by young women, then Danish and French. Don't know why, maybe because of the
soft sound. Danish is made especially charming by the stød. The milder forms of Finnland
Swedish are also nice (ie. the ones that don't sound like a Finnish native speaker
talking Swedish).
Nordlandsk sounds great no matter the gender. Sunnmøre dialects are also great.
When spoken by men, then Nynorsk with Sogn accent (I don't think I've ever heard anybody
from there speaking Sognamaol, so no comment on that). I also like Icelandic and
Setesdalen dialect in this class.
Dutch is also quite pleasant independently of the gender.
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caam_imt
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 Message 13 of 15
07 April 2015 at 10:57am | IP Logged 
I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course,
this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor old/rare/distant languages
and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my
experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the most. Is
it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding to
western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple phonetic
systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French,
Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and so
they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap
(influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering..

I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes
Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way as the
other foreign languages.

Edited by caam_imt on 07 April 2015 at 10:58am

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schmoo
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 Message 14 of 15
09 April 2015 at 4:15pm | IP Logged 
I wonder how much influence one's cultural background exerts on this matter. Of
course,this being a language forum, a lot of people seem to favor
old/rare/distant languages
and point out diverse features not found on the main ones (FIGS). But in my
experience, the masses seem to like English, Spanish, French and Italian the
most. Is
it that they are languages of "high culture"? is it that they are soft sounding
to
western people? is there some sort of agreement that languages with simple
phonetic
systems are less sophisticated than the more complex ones (like English, French,
Russian). Or maybe those main ones are the only ones many have heard about, and
so
they are automatically nice. Notice also how frequently German gets a bad rap
(influence from WWII perhaps?). Just wondering..

I like the sound of Finnish, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Japanese and sometimes
Russian. Spanish can be really nice but I obviously can't judge it the same way
as the
other foreign languages.[/QUOTE]

I think its a combination of everything you said. Your last question makes me
wonder how popular the German language would be today if WWI and WWII never
occurred. I now that a lot of German-Americans were persecuted for war hysteria.
It force many German-american immigrants to change their last names, for example
Schmidt become smith.
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 Message 15 of 15
10 April 2015 at 7:28am | IP Logged 
Swedish is my favourite by far


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