Lingusitics Which language sounds the nicest?

[zankaon]

Navaho

Navaho, when i hear it slowly, has the cadence and aesthetics of ocean swells or a slow flowing river.
- ya' at' eeh.

 

[nadavgeva]

Fortran 95 is definitely my choice. for the worst of course!

 

[nadavgeva]

but seriously I think Portuguese. it's just hard to spell it.

 

[ThienAn]

What are you guys talking about? It is obviously a very vague question. I were born in Vietnam. I speak Vietnamese fluently. Ten out of ten times I won't misspell any world. Plus, French to me is like my English now because Vietnamese people communicate in French, also. But drawn from my experience between Vietnamese (Asia), French (Europe), and English (America or Cannada or any country), I would say English (particularly American English) sounds easiest (pronounciation, cadence, spelling, vocal, etc) but not the nicest. I sometimes speak French to my girlfriend and she would be fascinated by it, but in Vietnamese she says it sounds "unfamiliar", "funny", "twisted", "toungy". And those are the terms we know about Asian language, especially Chinese, Japanese, Nepalese, Bhutan, Istanbul, Philipines, Indonesia, but in West Asia the languages sound differently.

 

[Link-]

but seriously I think Portuguese. it's just hard to spell it.

Portuguese sound a little bit like spanish. If you know spanish really well and hear a portuguese conversation, you can understand part of the conversation.
What I would say is sound nicest is the portuguese accent.

 

[jim mcnamara]

FWIW - this kind of thread works on a bad assumption, IMO, that all humans can perceive the sounds of all languages. There are phonemes in languages that you lose the ability to hear or to reproduce if you do not literally hear those phonemes as a baby.

 

[gravenewworld]

Latin