Best Sounding Language
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Topic: Best Sounding Language
Posted By: BigL
Subject: Best Sounding Language
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2006 at 20:34
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This is not just a best of thread but rather a test to see Bias of language.As my theory is there is no better sounding language just better sounding voices. Please State HOW Close to the country you are too Geoghragically that you voted for.
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Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2006 at 23:44
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well, I can't really judge whichs sounds best. but, for what it's worth, Spanish and French to me, are the most romantic, therefore the best sounding languages. Meh, just my opinion. btw, should this be in General World History? Maybe Cultural history, yes? ------------- Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava Only Unity Can Save the Serb |
Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 01:33
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Its all greek to me. (My apologies, I couldn't resist that pun) ------------- |
Posted By: Dear Sir
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 02:52
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Chinese. -------------  AHAM BRAHMASMI
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Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 04:24
| English |
Posted By: Ey_Iran
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 12:18
wath english? north american, south american? Brittish, south african, Austrailian i cant understand  ------------- =) |
Posted By: Kalevipoeg
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 12:59
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Sometimes Estonian, very often Finnish more than Estonian. ------------- There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... |
Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 15:42
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In terms of aesthetics, the Romance languagues without a doubt. Especially French, but also Italian, Spanish and Rumanian. English has some of the same qualities, due to the strong French influence on the language.
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Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 15:43
| spanish with an argentinian accent. |
Posted By: J.M.Finegold
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 17:37
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When a women speaks to me in French I go crazy.
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Posted By: Anton
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 18:57
I really like poetic language of Shiller and Goethe  No kidding.------------- . |
Posted By: Ponce de Leon
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2006 at 19:06
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I enjoy listening to Spanish and Italian. And I like french also.
Chinese to me sounds like they make "O" sounds with their mouths. Like "Onean she Bang kin Wang" Sorry but thats how my little brain interprets it. I love the food tho!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 01:58
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Wow, I just realised that someone here thinks 'Indian' is a language. I have a better poll. How many different ways are their to understand my pun or play on words above? ------------- |
Posted By: BigL
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 05:47
| Why are spanish and french considered romantic languages, arabic or chinese poetry isnt romantic? |
Posted By: Sokrates
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 06:58
| Quite a subjective list I would say. I don't see greek there , which is not only a well-sounding language but probably the most expressive language . However I would vote for the Pontic greek dialect. |
Posted By: Frederick Roger
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 07:00
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The Queen's English. ------------- |
Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 07:09
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The beauty of Argentinian is that it is Spanish in an Italian accent which sounds super coolio. |
Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 07:36
I've heard that Colombian is most beautifull Spanish.
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Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 07:37
I meant English English. I should add that Spanish is as beautifull as English or maybe even more. I also like French.
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Posted By: xi_tujue
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 08:32
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english is an artificial language and so is Turkish
the most languages I think are the ancients like arabic chinese(sou,ds faggy thow) japanese greek ------------- I rather be a nomadic barbarian than a sedentary savage |
Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 09:15
well it's a bit of a subjective matter isn't it?
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Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 09:52
Yes You're right, maybe it's because I had 3 Spanish teachers from Colombia.
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Posted By: Menumorut
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 11:30
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Because the thread is about sounding, I voted Turkish. If it would be about favorite languages generaly, I shall vote Romanian, because I think is interesting how a Latin languages was presevred in the East of Europe. I'm in Romania, quite close to Turkey. -------------  |
Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2006 at 19:50
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Turkish is better sounding than Spanish? To me, nothing is more beautiful than a woman speaking Spanish. ------------- Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava Only Unity Can Save the Serb |
Posted By: Kalevipoeg
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 05:57
O i had my first German lesson today (in my entire life i mean). I never realized how foreign the word pronounciation is to Estonian. Damn the spitting and ridiculous (to me) pressure placing on weird syllabels.
To Estonian and Finnish i must add that Spanish sounds great when you listen metal music in Spanish, totally different from English. ------------- There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... |
Posted By: Kapikulu
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 06:22
Not a good sounding one,ha Kalevipoeg ?
I think Arabic, sounds quite melodic...I like Spanish in that term too. ------------- We gave up your happiness Your hope would be enough; we couldn't find neither; we made up sorrows for ourselves; we couldn't be consoled; A Strange Orhan Veli |
Posted By: Sokrates
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 07:05
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Hmmm , Czech must be included in this list. One of the most rhythmical, if not the most rhythmical, among all Slavonic. I spent a few hours with 2 Czech tourists last month and their conversations sounded magical. |
Posted By: alexISS
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 08:50
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French... definately French!
------------- "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music" Groucho |
Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 08:55
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English, with texas accent. ------------- |
Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 10:31
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French of course, followed by brazilian portuguese.
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Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 11:02
It's curious, the nordic people love the spanish metal, heavy rock... I'm remembering for example the great triumph of the group "Héroes del Silencio" in Germany, more than 10 years ago. ------------- |
Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 13:23
For us Czech is very funny. e.g. word " dziwka" means in Czech "girl" and in Polish "bitch". So my friend was talking with his girlfriend by the phone. His Czech friend which was listening to the conversation asked if it was His "dziwka" calling
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Posted By: Kalevipoeg
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 13:32
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"It's curious, the nordic people love the spanish metal, heavy rock... I'm remembering for example the great triumph of the group "Héroes del Silencio" in Germany, more than 10 years ago."
I personally listen to "Brujeria" and their album "Brujerizmo." The purer pronounciation of Spanish from English really gives some brutality to many spots in songs, more passion aswell. ------------- There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2006 at 19:26
It is kind of funny that you mention that, because in America(not the South, of course), if you want to make a person sound stupid, you give them a Texas accent. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vivek Sharma
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2006 at 01:47
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Nothing is better than the spanish & portuguese songs which they sing while dancing traditionally.
------------- PATTON NAGAR, Brains win over Brawn |
Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2006 at 13:17
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italian is so nice, every word sounds like a melody.......
mangiare,scusi,contrattacco, faghetti, mazzola, riva, riviera,bonisegna,garibaldi..a little poem ------------- 
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Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 04:23
Buffon, Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Barzagli, Grosso, Semioli, Pirlo, Gattuso, Perrotta, Cassano, Inzaghi.
Who do yours play for?
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Posted By: QueenCleopatra
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 08:40
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Ok I voted for French but I think Irish deserves a mention. Its an ancient language going back to the Celts so its the language of mythology and religon. Its unusual and unique and thats where its appeal lies.
------------- Her Royal Highness , lady of the Two Lands, High Priestess of Thebes, Beloved of Isis , Cleopatra , Oueen of the Nile |
Posted By: nikodemos
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 09:45
| How many people speak Irish in ireland?Do the Irish speak their ancestral language or they apeak just English with Irish accent? |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 15:12
Irish speak Irish-accented English, but I believe they learn Irish Gaelic in their school system. -------------
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Posted By: Renegade
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 20:52
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Spanish, singing in that language sounds so beautiful.
------------- "I kill a few so that many may live." - Sam Fisher |
Posted By: arch.buff
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 22:00
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I say Spanglish! I'll have my Nana recite a few words for ya, but then you'll have to throw out the trash and mow the lawn!! ------------- Be a servant to all, that is a quality of a King. |
Posted By: Hrothgar
Date Posted: 14-Sep-2006 at 00:57
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Old Norse or German. Chinese sounds really nasal to me and feminine. |
Posted By: Hrothgar
Date Posted: 14-Sep-2006 at 01:01
| where's GREEK!!?? |
Posted By: Killabee
Date Posted: 15-Sep-2006 at 12:36
I like the Virginian Southern accent. It is so aristocratic and masculine.
The best example is to watch the movies "Gettysburg", "God and General". Basically all of the Confederate Generals spoke in this type of accent.
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Posted By: Desimir
Date Posted: 16-Sep-2006 at 06:55
| Everyone will like their native language.For me french is the best sounding language.German and Turkish are a little bit unpleasant. |
Posted By: barbar
Date Posted: 26-Sep-2006 at 09:35
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French and Turkish (spoken by the girls). ------------- Either make a history or become a history. |
Posted By: Ellin
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2006 at 07:55
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It was always "French" for me, until I went to Greece and fell in love with the way the Greeks spoke over there... Since then, French sounds a bit more strong and guttural in comparison. so, since I can't vote for Greece  lol, and since Italian, which is another goodie, ain't there.. i'm going to have to say Francais! Turkish ain't that bad either. |
Posted By: Sirona
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2006 at 09:15
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Greek wasn't on the list, neither was Russian, or Welsh. I think Russian sounds amazing, at least to me. Welsh is a very interesting language to listen to, though, of course I don't understand a word (okay, so I know like five words.) I also like the standard British English. Anyway, since my favorites were not listed, I voted for French. About half my family speaks it, and I am probably biased, but there you go. |
Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2006 at 09:59
I voted for French, but to me is Persian very well sounding, it is like French. Have anyone ever heared a girl speacking Persian?  ------------- |
Posted By: Sirona
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2006 at 10:06
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Actually yes, I should have mentioned it! I heard a lot of Persian and Dari being spoken (which by what I understand is a dialect of Persian) and it was really flowing. Persian is also a very, very rich language with an amazing history. Pity it wasn't on the list. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2006 at 00:11
I've heard that Colombian is most beautifull Spanish.
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In my oppinion, the best sounding Spanish is Peruvian and/or Bolivian.
Now, some critics to fellow Hispanics:
The Spanish of the Spaniards is so rude and low-class sounding we don't usually accept translations of American movies with doublings in Spain. Seeing Batman with Spaniard accent is really ridiculous. Instead of Batman it look like we are seeing Sancho Panza in action.
Caribbean and Central American Spanish have too much Salsa on it. Cubans, in particular, seem to "eat" lots of consonants. It sounds too "Caribbean" for our taste.
Mexican Spanish is really ridiculous. Sorry Mexican friends.
Venezuelan Spanish sound like Chavez.
 Argentineans, well, they are unique
. They even have their own grammar.In Chile we speak with too many slangs; actually almost all our expresions are pre-build slangs. And is a Spanish that sounds very rude. The equivalent of "Chilean" in English is the way Australians speak English.
That's why I believe the best Spanish is talked in Peru and/or Bolivia, and perhaps in Colombia as well. For some reasons those guys speak clearly and carefully.
Pinguin.
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Posted By: Barbarroja
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2006 at 09:36
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Here, in Spain, it's the opposite, when i see a film translated in South America it sounds very extrange and they use a peculiar vocabulary with too much English influence.
I think Argentinian accent is very sweet, but i like more the Portuguese and Italian accent, both languages sound better. ------------- I'm sorry but my English is not very good. I'm from Vila-real (Valencia, Spain) |
Posted By: Turkali
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2006 at 05:11
| French. Are you serious by choosing Indian for a choise. Honestly Indian language and accent is one of the crapies . |
Posted By: EGETÜRK
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2006 at 10:59
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Nobody wants to Listen Türkic French i think :D:D:D Because we can not prononce a lot of things...
------------- The lands of the of the West may be armored with walls of steel, But I have borders guarded by the mighty chest of a believer... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2006 at 23:50
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I am a Spanish speaker, and I do agree Spanish is a language "designed" for singing. For some reason both Italian and Spanish seem to match well with music, particularly with the operatic styles of popular songs. Portuguese and French, although not phonetic like the previous ones, also sound well in music. These four languages are closely related and are derivations of ancient Roman Latin. Now, for simple speach or to talk to a lady, I believe French is the best sounding language in the planet. The pronounciation is so sweet and stylish, that many people recognize that. However, the grammar and many words are so ackward and obsolete that I wonder how modern people have not changed that.
The germanic languages of Northern Europe have a more rude pronounciation. However, some artists like Mozart have produced wonderful music song in German! Listen to the Magic Flute, for instance.
English is the softer of the Germanic languages, I believe, and it does not sound bad in singing. However, it requires a lot of effort of the poets to make it sound fine. In phonetic languages, like Spanish, Italian, Japanese or Mapudungun (Chilean Indian), language simply follow music.
The opinion about languages of Charles V, is perhaps the most amazing. He used to say: "I Speak Spanish to God, Italian to the women, French to men, and German to my horse".
Another fanatic of Spanish was American science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, who once said:
"Robert Heinlein, in Friday:
French is quite suited to lyric poetry, more so than is English - it takes Edgar Allen Poe to wring beauty consistently out of dissonances in English. German is unsuited to lyricism, so much so that translations fall sweeter on the ear than do German originals. This is no fault of Goethe or Heine; it is a defect of an ugly language. Spanish is so musical that a soap-powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English - the Spanish language is so beautiful that much of its poetry sounds best if the listener does not understand the meaning." Hasta pronto
 Pinguin
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Posted By: shayan
Date Posted: 08-Oct-2006 at 15:29
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Umm... its a shame persian isnt in this list I also like Turkish and the Lebanese arabic :)
------------- Iran parast |
Posted By: Turkali
Date Posted: 08-Oct-2006 at 15:59
| Turkic language is the best for me. Italian, japonese and serbian are cool too. |
Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2006 at 19:52
For me isn't bad or rude, but cold. But contrary of you, i think that the english is better for sing, at least modern music, at the moment that this idiom is direct, i don't know which is the word... you know that we spanish speakers need a lot of more words than the anglo speakers when we want to say the same thing, so our phrases lose power. Of course we get other advantages (expresivity, variety of emotions, accuracy...) but for the music is very important short sentences with force. Curiously, this don't rule for the metal music, because our friends think that the spanish heavy is strongest than the english  Like i said before, the proof is the succes of many spanish hard rock or heavy metal groups in Europe.------------- |
Posted By: Gun Powder Ma
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2006 at 21:31
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French sounds like gay. Chinese with its chronically short syllables sounds like a machine gun. Spanish sounds like chain smoking. German sounds too harsh. Dutch sounds like German for babies. Portuguese sounds like a hilarious mix of French and Spanish. American English sounds like chewing gum. Japanese sounds only good with English or German accent. Arab sounds like sawing wood. African languages - who cares? Asian languages - dito. Hence, it must be Italian. Wonderful melody, masculine with men and female with women. Multo bene.  |
Posted By: Vivek Sharma
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 01:53
What do you mean by who cares ? Their are more people to care for these languages than the european languages you mentioned. And correcting your knowledge of geography, even Chinese & Japanese languages fall within the geographical entity known as Asia. ------------- PATTON NAGAR, Brains win over Brawn |
Posted By: Vivek Sharma
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 01:54
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Every language sounds good, It depends on the speaker. ------------- PATTON NAGAR, Brains win over Brawn |
Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 11:59
If you want a bad thing about italian, the man sound like if he always talk joking, in fact, the spanish always laugh when they hear talk italian. But i agree if you want one or two candidates to the first place ------------- |
Posted By: perikles
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2006 at 06:33
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SInce i didn't found Italian on the list and not Greek i vote for Spain ------------- Samos national guard. 260 days left. |
Posted By: Brainstorm
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2006 at 07:12
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I would vote Italian.
Greek sound the same like Spanish.Romanian too.(no "musical" accent) French is the best for a woman. Arabian is interesting too. Turkish doesnt have "colour" in the accent and the sounds are quiet harsh. Chinese sound to me like a can falling of the stairs (dont consider this an insult! :) Japanese is quiet interesting,although in Kurosava's films ,is like swearing even when they say the most tender phrases. English (british) is so..aristocratic. American is .."usual" -by films and so on. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2006 at 23:59
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I am an Spanish speaker.
I vote for Italian in the family of Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Ladino)
I vote for English in the family of Germanic languages.
I vote for Japanese in the family of Sino-tibetian languages.
I vote for Polynesian in the Austronesian family of languages.
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I vote for Aymara in the Amerindian family of languages.
Yes. I do believe one can compare languages only between related families.
Pinguin
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 14-Oct-2006 at 00:22
Yes. You are correct in Spanish the phrases are longer... but only when they are put down on writing. In common speach, we cut phrases out in such way that they can even be shorter than in english.
And one thing Spanish have over English is precission. There is no way people miss a single word in a song. In English, even native speakers sometimes miss whole chuncks of it.
And for modern music, find out "Te visitara la muerte" of the Spanish group
Obus, and tell me, sincerely, if rock does not sound great in Spanish. And if you like it, find out Charlie Garcia, the Argentinean psycopatic singer.
English is a nice sounding language, too, but requires more effort for the poet to make it sound right. Poe's poetry was great, but the language is poorly designed for poetry.
Pinguin
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Posted By: Jams
Date Posted: 18-Oct-2006 at 14:01
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I like English, I agree it's the best sounding Germanic language. some Swedish dialects also sound good, but it's not on the list.
I like Italian more, but it's not on the list either |
Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 18-Oct-2006 at 14:54
not to mention Materazzi -------------
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Posted By: Dan Carkner
Date Posted: 07-Nov-2006 at 11:30
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Out of the few choices given I chose Turkish in the end because it is very interesting to listen to.. However there are so many pleasant-sounding languages in the world, in the end it all depends on the situation in which you were exposed to it. As a speaker of Canadian French, I'm going to put a word in for Lebanese French. It's perhaps my favorite accent--the combination of metropolitan French accent and arabic sounds is just beautiful. |