Most beautiful (spoken): Italian Most beautiful (written): Hindi Most violent (spoken): Hebrew Most violent (written): Abkhaz Most easy to learn (spoken): Dutch Most easy to learn (written): Korean Most hard to learn (spoken): Thai Most hard to learn (written): Chinese
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That's actually more of a stereotype, perpetuated by TV, movies and YouTube. While German may sound somewhat "violent" to English speakers, I assure you that Arab sounds much more harsh.
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I had a look and Hebrew sounds more harsh so I replaced German with Hebrew. Oh yeah, Arabic sounds beautiful. Maybe you mistook it with Persian, which sounds a bit more harsh.
I always hated Arabic TV. I feel like everything was a musical with non stop singing. drove me nuts. I was only ever exposed to it at the barber shop though. Every time I was in there though the people on the TV were singing.
Post by Baden-Wuerttemberg on Apr 10, 2015 4:44:43 GMT -5
I was just thinking that any language can sound beautiful when sung by a beautiful human voice, and then I read NeoYundar's post. I guess there can be too much of a 'good' thing! If my main exposure to a language were daytime TV or hyperactive music videos, it would not leave the most favourable impression. Or, for example, we have the term 'Pizzamusik' for the type of easy listening soapsuds played nonstop in some Italian restaurants. If that were the only times I ever heard any Italian sung or spoken... my reaction would be 'Uääh bah Italian'. Thankfully that has not been the case.
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Hi everyone! This is such an interesting post! I'm such a sucker for languages.
I've always been interested in listening to and in learning about other languages ever since I was a kid. I remember asking my parents to buy me language phrase books and I would peruse all the phrase books and memorise random phrases. I loved reading about other cultures, listening to music from around the world and listening to national anthems as well(I was such a nerd haha). Until today, I can sing Kimi Ga Yo, Star-Spangled Banner, La Marseillaise, God Save the Queen, O Canada and Lupang Hinirang by heart. I can also hum the national anthems of several other countries as well. I even remember trying to memorise the Phoenician and Baybayin alphabet.
I'm currently fluent in only 2 languages, English and Tagalog, but I can converse in French as I am currently studying in France and in C1 level at the uni here. I also studied Arabic, Italian and Japanese and I can read Korean script(actually not that hard to learn!) and Hiragana and Katakana scripts but not so much for Kanji. I can also speak and understand a bit of Spanish due to Tagalog having numerous Spanish loanwords and having traveled in Spain several times and picking up some vocab. I also tried self-studying Russian and Dutch but sadly, I don't have much time to focus on that at the moment.
I really don't have a personal preference when it comes to what languages I find to be the best sounding because all of them are very interesting to me! Although, I do find the Arabic and Hindu script to be among the most beautiful scripts.
Haha I apologise in advance for such a long post! I tend to babble a lot, even in real-life
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Post by Baden-Wuerttemberg on Jun 24, 2016 5:33:37 GMT -5
Does anyone here speak a language that only few people share, or a language that is even in danger of disappearing?
I don't share that situation, and would be interested in knowing how it is like for speakers.
On the one hand, languages have been changing, developing and disappearing since homo sapiens figured out to speak. In the long run, all our languages will disappear. On the other hand, if it is one's own situation, it may inspire efforts to preserve the language, publish written works in it, make it present in the media, and teach it to children again.
I am curious what draws your attraction to spoken Serbo-Croatian? Are you familiar with efforts to differentiate Serbian, Croatian, and Bosniak from each other?
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Well, I'm from Croatia. These languages are very simillar, but have some different words. We can speak with other Balkans nations normally but every one of us have some word which the other side don't understand. We are the same nations, but politics fu**s with us. And now we have 3different languages with same words, but different flags! Shame on us...
i think germanic languages re easy and sound pretty, Italian like a puppy on steroids, Finnish definatly finnish like hobo language, yes yes i know, its my second language i speak daily, Arabic all of the variants ..... duh dont want to sound like a racist toad, but yes harsh, very very harsh.....