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Talib wrote:I'm sick of hearing which is the most beautiful/cultured/romantic language in the world. (Hint: it's Italian, French or Francotalian.). Let's hear which ones you can't stand the mere sight and sound of.
I'm going to have to go with Vietnamese (sorry, it just sounds bad), Portuguese and Mandarin. Interestingly that's a big part of why I like the latter two.
Both sound bad to me in their own way. Have you ever heard caipira speech?Formiko, are you talking about European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese? The latest can't sound ugly! Hehe.
Talib wrote:Both sound bad to me in their own way. Have you ever heard caipira speech?
Maybe you just like tonal languages? I don't mind Chinese in small doses, but after a while it starts to get really grating. But Vietnamese (and other Southeast Asian languages) is just awful. Plus it's an eyesore.Also, I just want to say that I seem to love the languages that people seem to dislike. Case in point: Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese...the list goes on.
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one. While Spanish can occasionally sound mincing and lispy, Portuguese almost always sounds bad to me. I think it's mainly that gross r.Yes, I have. Many languages can sound both nice and ugly, Ithink. Spanish and Portuguese, for example. A big deal depends on the person who speaks.
What do you like then? Over half of the world's languages are tonal.Arabic.
Turkish.
Spanish.
Catalan.
French.
Hindi/Urdu.
Korean.
Swedish.
Tonal languages.
thoughtsafar wrote:I tend to find beauty in a lot of languages that most do not; the only language I've really thought was downright unpleasant sounding in general is Hungarian. It always sounds very halting, like it's being played on a CD that keeps skipping; it's nothing special to look at either. I've also found myself largely unimpressed with Norwegian despite the fact that I think Swedish is extremely beautiful and like Germanic languages in general.
Also, it's hard for me to have an objective viewpoint as it's my native language, but I think English is going down a bad road in both sight and sound. I really like the sound (as best as we can figure) of Old English as well as the ways it's most commonly written, but it's pretty much been downhill from there.
Oh and French is way overrated.
Talib wrote:I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one. While Spanish can occasionally sound mincing and lispy, Portuguese almost always sounds bad to me. I think it's mainly that gross r.Yes, I have. Many languages can sound both nice and ugly, Ithink. Spanish and Portuguese, for example. A big deal depends on the person who speaks.
Stawrberry wrote:Catalan.
''' wrote:Brazilian portuguese (true portuguese sounds sexig)
Talib wrote:I'm going to have to go with Vietnamese (sorry, it just sounds bad)
I find Norwegian, Hindi/Urdu, Indonesian/Malay, Cushitic languages, Basque, Dutch, Polish and Breton tough on my ears.
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