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    Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 04:28

The most beutiful lang. is French (as a fact)

 
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I like Italian, Swedish (not the skne dialect), Spanish (the castillian, not american) and Japanese

I don't particularly like Danish, french, arab, thai or that clicking-language down in Africa
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:34

I like Turkish, because it is a language can be spoken softly and strongly as you wish. For example, in a poem, Turkish can be very soft, but in a command during a war, it will make the soldiers believe and be confident easily... Also to command something in Turkish, you take all the additions from a verb and use its root, usually one or two sharp syllables such as "saldr", "tut", "atl", "yap", "kalk". This is why Turkish is oftenly described as a language conformable for military...

I also like Persian since it is the language of poetry and beauty. I like Roman latin, because it has a harmony of "us" addition after most of its words. It sounds pretty cool. 
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Hmm, Oguzohlu, when I saw your name as last poster, I already knew what the answer in this post was going to be, I wonder why that is

Hehe just messing, after all, I also picked my own language as best sounding

Such a shame we can't hear or own native languages the way they truly sound, because we will always listen to the contens of it instead, no matter how hard we try.
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Yeah, you're right, but I dont think I would ever enjoy listening a Semite language sound such as Israeli or Arabic (rarely)...
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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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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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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

Yes, I know it.

I just forgot the english word for "Ibrani"...
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I like hear western mongolian,japanese,french and russian.And don't like arabic,indian and chinese.

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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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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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Originally posted by ramin

There are somelanguages that sound strict like German, Turkish (more or less), and Arabic -- these are what I know of.

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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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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I would not to nominate Klingon!!! The galaxtic language of warriors or is that laxative language of warrior???

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Telugu and French
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Literature Persian. But I am biased.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-May-2005 at 20:56
Originally posted by Zagros Purya

Literature Persian. But I am biased.
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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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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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