Koneko Posted September 29, 2006 at 04:14 PM Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 at 04:14 PM Guys, If you can only pick ONE language, which language do you think has the most elegant sound? French?? I bet there will be quite a few of us here that agree it's going to be French!! But, why is it so? Cheers K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmck Posted September 30, 2006 at 01:06 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 at 01:06 PM Je ne sais pas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianlondon Posted September 30, 2006 at 02:13 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 at 02:13 PM It has a certain je ne sais quoi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeon Posted September 30, 2006 at 04:00 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 at 04:00 PM I don't think any particular language sounds inherently 'posh'. It all depends on the accent and vocabulary of the speaker. Any language will sound low class if it spoken with an indistinct accent and poor vocabulary and grammar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted September 30, 2006 at 08:47 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 at 08:47 PM French... then Hakka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhchao Posted October 2, 2006 at 05:52 AM Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 at 05:52 AM If you can only pick ONE language, which language do you think has the most elegant sound? uhh...funny question. Korean and Japanese sounds beautiful. Also Mandarin and Shanghaiese. Among European languages, I am most interested in learning German. German sounds very rugged, which I find appealing. I'm not too interested in the Romance languages even though there is a widely held consensus that they sound more appealing than Germanic languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atitarev Posted October 2, 2006 at 06:28 AM Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 at 06:28 AM А мне кажется, русский - самый красивый и поэтичный язык, конечно ведь я сам русский! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koneko Posted October 5, 2006 at 02:09 PM Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 at 02:09 PM geek frappa:- French... then Hakka hakka? why hakka? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted October 5, 2006 at 03:03 PM Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 at 03:03 PM elegant sound. almost melodic. learning hakka now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted October 9, 2006 at 09:01 AM Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 at 09:01 AM Italian sounds nice to me! I had an Italian cubicle neighbor before and it was always so nice to just listen to him speak, no matter whether it was Italian or English....he had a very soothing voice, best cubicle neighbor ever! Spanish, despite being exposed to it alot and studying it, I never really thought it sounded good or bad. The same with French. Mandarin sounds ok to me but sometimes when women speak it really gets high pitched! I've had some teachers that I thought were going to blow out my eyedrums, but similarly I can't handle the baby-voiced mandarin either. Cantonese sounds much deeper, women speak it it almost sounds manly. Taiwan accented Mandarin sounds cute to me, and then whenever people speak a Chinese dialect I don't understand, they just sound like they are arguing.... Korean, I can't help it I only hear a stream of o, mo, omni, bo, and other utterances....it makes my head spin, and I think I just have negative associations with it after being trapped in classrooms where everyone except for me was speaking it instead of Mandarin...before class....during class.....on the way back from class......oooooooooh omniiiiiiiiiiiiiii Japanese sounds ok, but somehow it seems like the women are out of breath when they speak....when they speak it together and get really worked up I really think someone is going to pass out. English, as a native English speaker, it doesn't sound good or bad to me, just a tool for communication. I don't think anyone can really list their native language as the most "melodic", or elegant.... And there it is, my random impression of a few languages (somehow this thread just makes me think of that scene from A Fish Called Wanda......ok, moving right along...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashiriKata Posted October 9, 2006 at 09:46 AM Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 at 09:46 AM "Posh language" is a completely subjective thing and anything that tries to prove one language is "posher"/ "more beautiful" than another is a complete waste of time. Anyway, there's one language that sounds very bad to my ear, and that is because I happen not to like a family who come from that country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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