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Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:41 |
I like the sounding of anatolian Turkish (any dialect exept maybe that of the Laz)Other than my own language my order would be:
- Persian
- Kyrghiz
- English
- Mongolian
- Italian
The ones which dont sound quite nice to my ear are:
- French
- Russian
- Japanese
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Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:12 |
The best: Karadeniz Turkish ,Arabic '(when hoca reading soeras out Kuran), Farsi/Persian, Amerigo-indian language
Worst: Hebrew, Greek => sounds worse and Dutch bcuz its tough to learn vree moeilijk
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Posted: 05-May-2005 at 23:14 |
Latin for me. Easily. It just sounds so powerful. Its like every word
makes a STOP! and forces you to listen to it. Its definately a
wonderful language. Now if only I could speak it . Thats my favorite language. Its also the language of my favorite character of antiquity. Gaius Julius Caesar.
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While searching through the web I found this interesting article that
totally covers my view in a much more articulate manner than I would.
William Harris Prof. Em. Middlebury College
"One cannot help feeling proud and pleased with the lovely sound of Classical
Greek. A language with a clear-ringing and transparent set of vowels, backed up
by smoothly sliding di-phthongs, a language which cannot tolerate double
consonants at the word-end, smoothing a raucous Latin -unt to a silky -on, even
whispering down an initial sibilant like s- to the aura of a "rough breathing"
(rough indeed....!)---------this must be one of the loveliest languages of the
world.
Lovely indeed are the "interwoven cadences" of Sappho, as Dionysus put it, the
many-colored phrases which combine musically in every sentence of Plato's
art-prose. And Pindar's world of words flowing in a river of rhythm, pure art
quite separate from his biography, along with Aeschylus' storms of sound, or
Sophocles' restrained artfulness laced with innuendo.
But then I have to ask my Classical colleagues: Why have you insisted all these
years on ruining the sound when you read Greek aloud, hammering the light
sounds inexorably so they come out loud, obliterating the clearly indicated
durations ----- thus depriving yourselves of the true musicality of ancient
Greek?"
The rest at:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Classics/Greekacce nts.html
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Posted: 05-May-2005 at 20:56 |
Originally posted by Zagros Purya
Literature Persian. But I am biased. |
That's an understatement, couldn't help it
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Literature Persian. But I am biased.
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Posted: 05-May-2005 at 18:23 |
Telugu and French
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Posted: 31-Mar-2005 at 01:11 |
I would not to nominate Klingon!!! The galaxtic language of warriors or is that laxative language of warrior???
http://www.kli.org/
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Posted: 31-Mar-2005 at 00:58 |
My vote would be for Urdu, the national language for Pakistan and one
of the official ones for India. Hindi would be a close 2nd (they
have similiar grammar and sounds, just that Urdu vocabulary is more
Persio-Arabic based and Hindi is more based on Sanskrit.
And I've had to learn French here in school, and there is no comparison...
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Posted: 30-Mar-2005 at 12:13 |
Originally posted by ramin
There are somelanguages that sound strict like German, Turkish (more or less), and Arabic -- these are what I know of.
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That would probably include Dutch... it's funny, when Dutch is imitated from an English perspective it always sounds extremely much like German to me German sounds very distinctive and different from Dutch, but to outsiders (which are of course in the more reliable position of neutrality) they probably sound the same, so I guess it's just me
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Posted: 30-Mar-2005 at 11:51 |
In fact, original Turkish is much more strict than current Turkish spoken in the Republic of Turkey. If you listen Kazakh, Uzbek or Uighur languages, you would differ these from Turkmen, Azeri and modern Turkish...
I forgot his name, but a British linguistic master once told that the stanbul Turkish was a version of Azeri which is spelled in European accent...
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Posted: 29-Mar-2005 at 10:46 |
There are somelanguages that sound strict like German, Turkish (more or less), and Arabic -- these are what I know of.
My favorites are German (just started learning), Italian (Perfect for singing when ure alone!), and Yugoslavian.
I don't like English, French, Spanish, and Arabic (it's only good for music once in a while).
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Posted: 29-Mar-2005 at 05:55 |
I like hear western mongolian,japanese,french and russian.And don't like arabic,indian and chinese.
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Posted: 28-Feb-2005 at 10:48 |
Originally posted by azimuth
well once you understand Arabic you will like it and by Arabic i mean the Formal Arabic not the accents which are used everywhere
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there is no language called "Israeli" it is Hebrew
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I just forgot the english word for "Ibrani"...
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Posted: 24-Feb-2005 at 21:28 |
Arabic is a beautiful language. I like Syrian Arabic the best. Then I would say it is Malay. I don't understand what people like aout French. People say my accent sounds French but I don't understand as I don't even know French! It is nasal and goofy. I hope I do not sound this way when I am speaking English or swedish.
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Posted: 24-Feb-2005 at 20:37 |
well once you understand Arabic you will like it and by Arabic i mean the Formal Arabic not the accents which are used everywhere
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there is no language called "Israeli" it is Hebrew
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