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Anttech said:Italian is by far the nicest to listen to with allo thosea voweli everyo wherei... :D
I second that.
Anttech said:Italian is by far the nicest to listen to with allo thosea voweli everyo wherei... :D
I knew that the differences between the Spanish dialects were there, but that much so?moe darklight said:lol yea that happens with other languages too. Say "Te voy a cojer a tu casa" to a Spanish-speaking person from spain, and one from Argentina, and you'll get a very very different response.
I remember my mom was excited she had a patient from latin america, eager to do therapy in spanish again. After one session she was horrified that she couldn't understand half of what the patient was talking about.
As for writing/readin chinese, I think I'll have to wait a while on to that one... you know... at least 'till I'm past the "hello, I am from Canada, where is the toilet-room" phase
Anttech said:This isn't really true.
In Europe we have many Langauge groups:
Depends who is speaking it... Provence French is really nice to hear. Bruxelles French is a slur, Paris French has a air of contempt, and north African French is errmm well impossible for a non-french speaker to understand... Italians no matter who speaks it sounds great. I really like the dialect in North west Italia, a mixture of French and Italian...Evo said:French sounds the best. Italian would be second
I like that country a lot... But I don't really like listening to Arabic, sounds like something is stuck in the back of your throat...I have a kid in my math class whose native language is Lebanon Arabic, and I find it nice to listen to... but, I can imagine it would be better to hear in a softer speaker. His voice is a bit raspy...
verdigris said:Which spoken language sounds the nicest? And would people in Europe think that a european language sounds nicer than a language from another continent just because they are more familiar with European languages - or is there more to it than this?
Tony11235 said:I don't know about Beijing Mandarin, all the 'er's added to everything. What sounds nice really just depends on what your ears are accustomed to at the time. After being in Beijing for a while, Castilian Spanish sounded very nice and smooth, though any other time I wouldn't say so.
True. I like the sound of those emphatic 'er's as much as I like the emphatic pitch inflection. I should have pointed out that there are individuals that have particularly appealing voices. I once spoke on the telephone in English with a customer support person whose voice made me want to crawl through the wire to meet her.Tony11235 said:I don't know about Beijing Mandarin, all the 'er's added to everything. What sounds nice really just depends on what your ears are accustomed to at the time.
Link- said:My first language is Spanish and I don't think Spanish is the nicest language. My second language is English (even if I'm not a really good talker or writer), I don't think English is also a pretty language, I think is kind of frivolous. A really nice language is Italian and German, those are language that I would like to learn.
Duck1987 said:I used to like Spanish and Mandarin sounded like a song to me, but after living in New York for a while and listening to Chinese people who literally scream when on a subway with their Mandarin, it is the most annoying thing in the world. They sit apart from each other and start yelling! "Si si ma si si ma!"
As for spanish. Now I can only take a minute of it, after that I just want the person to stfu, because I just can't stand it!
moe darklight said:It depends what areas they are from, I find people from urban areas tend to be easier to understand, there's no problem between an argentinean and a mexican or someone from spain (well depending what part of spain, I struggle a bit to catch up when I watch some spanish movies).
wildman said:I find mexicans hard to understand. They mix a lot of Indigenous languages in with their Spanish or at least my wife's friends do, but they tend to be from the country side rather than the cities. Colombians have very beautiful Spanish to my ears.
SizarieldoR said:Aesthetically Sindarin or Quenya (elvish from LotR) sound the best - here's Tolkien reading some Sindarin
nadavgeva said:but seriously I think Portuguese. it's just hard to spell it.