leonstone said: Of course I am, why would I not bedamn girl, you're so objective wow ! I am always right |
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| Vietnamese and Thai. I cringe just thinking about it. |
| Each Language is beautiful in it's own way. Any negative opinions we have are because of our own little biases. With that said, french sounds very stuck up at times, and mandarin sounds like spam. I also dislike slavic and nordic languages. |
TiaDee said: You're welcome and whether or not you need to join a Class to learn a Language depends on you, but it's certainly recommended to do so.Yeah that's the most literal translation I've ever seen. And thanks a lot, didn't expect to find threads on this topic on MAL to be honest and Cookies files are very helpful since I'm already familiar with such a format. Though I think I'll probably still have to join some official German course at some point if I want real progress. Sherlupin said: But the World we're living in was formed by Speakers of those Languages.Arabic, german and chinese should not even exist. @ Topic: I don't dislike any Language, but there are several Characteristics that sound rather boring to me or that I don't find well-sounding. I'm not too much of a Fan of too vowel-rich Languages, but too consonant-rich ones also don't sound pleasant to me. Then there are Sounds like the voiceless, velar Fricative that imho just don't fit being used in the Beginning of a Word. |
| Spanish. I just hate the way people speak in spanish |
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| I really can't stand German and Russian. |
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| Not that huge a fan of Korean but I guess it can sound nice depending on the person. |
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| as for me German, Chinese, Arabic are horrible sound |
| Astounded by the sheer number of people who are answering "Chinese", as this actually does not refer to one language but multiple spoken languages which are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible. I myself can't even tell the difference between Shanghainese and Japanese sometimes. As for myself, I'd probably pick Cantonese and British English. |
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| Arabic is horrible when spoken it sounds like they are being strangled. Strangely I consider it pretty when sung. Hindi is like listening to a deaf person play ping pong with their mouth I have trouble listening to Tagalog without feeling like laughing. It just sounds like such a simplistic childish sounding language to me. Esperanto is pretty bad to me. It has no standard accent but usually it's something closer to Italian or Spanish. Comic_Sans said: Norwegian Bokmål (Nynorsk on the other hand...) That's written language though rather than the dialects. How could that have a bad sound? MortalMelancholy said: Those African languages with the clicks and stuff sound cool, but not pretty. Xhosa is likely what you are thinking of. It has more clicks than something like Zulu. |
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traed said: Yeah, i know, I was referring to the East Norwegian dialectsThat's written language though rather than the dialects. How could that have a bad sound? |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| Swedish makes me grind my teeth in disdain, all those BLUKHT/YOKHT for example (cringe) , Danish is like a slightly better version. Finish is so so mush better and has that Italian sexyness in it. British english is the best , australien is tad more heavy, but there are some nice accents. Most Arabian gulf countries dialects are so heavy and borderline cringy and so fuckn difficult to understand some times. French is nice and smooth on the ears, southern french is the best though. German is funny. Brazilian Portuguese is also very easy on the ears and glides of the tongue. American english is meh, okay i guess. |
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Comic_Sans said: traed said: Yeah, i know, I was referring to the East Norwegian dialectsThat's written language though rather than the dialects. How could that have a bad sound? That actually is the dialect im learning lol |
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zombie_pegasus said: For whatever reason the only relatively complete version of the Tom Sawyer anime is in Dutch. I loved Tom Sawyer as a kid and would understand the story without the dialogue anyway, but the audio really doesn't sound too nice. Also, for some reason Korean sounds somewhat robotic to me. It could be a combination of the fact that it's a tonal language and possibly what microphones they use (I've never heard the language IRL and would likely mistake it for Mandarin if I ever did). To be fair, Dutch dubbing is fairly poor. On-topic: I don't really have any languages that I think sound horrible. |
| German and Arabic, sound like the speaker is always angry and every word sounds like a swear word. Korean to me sounds like Japanese, if you're speaking with your mouth full. Valley girl accent. Every time I hear it I can feel my brain cells committing sudoku one by one. |
| least fav: Chinese -----------------characterslimit---- |
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. | You know what I hate the most? People who aren't free. They're no more than cattle. |
Shirayukishi said: To put it frankly, which languages sound ugly to you? I'm Dutch myself, and I'd imagine my language must sound horrible to foreigners. I can't stand the sound of German, Vietnamese, Chinese and Swedish. I dont like how german sounds either... but as for chinese,which dialect? Bcos mandarin sounds a hell lot different from cantonese |
| French, German, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish. On the other hand I really love Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Romanian, Greek and most of the Slavic languages. Wont even comment on the other languages as I have no clue how they sound. Aside from Chinese, Spanish etc. |
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| I don't really like Danish because it sounds like Swedish person speaking while having hot potato in his/her mouth. Estonian sounds just funny because it's so close to Finnish (my mother tongue) but then there's just enough difference to make it sound weird/wrong. |
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| Idk if I find any language truly ugly sounding. I hear Mandarin is ugly, but it doesn't seem that bad to me. I guess the least pleasant language imo are the African languages that have clicks. Then again, I tried making a conlang with clicks, so they probably aren't that bad either. |
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Noboru said: Romanian is grammatically probably the closest Language to Vulgar Latin, the spoken Latin in the Roman Empire, where other Languages have lost Features such as having a third (neutral) Gender and the Case Differentiation in Nouns. It's Sardinian language the closest to Latin than Italian, Iberians and than the others such Romanian and French who have Slavic/Germanic influences. |
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| Mandarin and German do not sound very pretty in my opinion. |
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| - Most of the European languages mainly French and Scottish English - Arabic - Russian - Mexican |
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| Brazilian Portuguese sounds weird to me. I'm also not a fan of French. It sounds so pompous. |
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| Absolute worst is American English, especially in parts where they go 'I was like' in every single sentence. Makes me feel rather sick. Love the Scottish and Irish accents though. Portuguese from Rio and Bahia is awesome, from the south to SP, kinda boring. French from Northern France is super dull (er... er... er), from Southern France is just too much. Best is from Quebec. Don't get the comments about the phlegm sounds, in French you only rasp your palate slighlty to get the 'r', it's a sound you can't reproduce if you try to use your throat. Arabic varies a lot, Egyptian/Sudanese Arabic to me is quite softly spoken and sounds beautiful at times. |
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| American English, particularly in the western to central part of the deep south - East Texas all the through Alabama/Mississippi. I used to live in that area and it sounded so. Fucking. Awful whenever somebody spoke. It can be really heavily slurred and it's filled to the brim with dumb sayings and whatnot. Instead of saying "I'm going to do this" it's "I'm fixing to do that." What the hell are you fixing? Nothing's broken or anything, you're just going somewhere or are about to do something. And the double or even sometimes triple fucking negatives sound atrocious to boot - especially when they say ain't. I ain't got no time for none of that. Then the other parts where they say "Like, I like, went to the mall today and like, I saw these people and there and like, oh my god they were so hip" or whatever annoys the piss out of me too. Spanish, Mexican and native - Mexican Spanish is just so spoken through the teeth, and native Spanish is the same thing except it's like they're plugging their nose at the same time. French also sounds really ugly to me. When I think French, I don't think anything like Oh la la~ or any of the stuff people tend to associate the language with. From my experience, people tend to speak French in this weird combination of something really nasally or really throaty and it's just like they're clearing snot from their nose or something whenever they speak it. The French language itself doesn't compliment that weird throaty/nasal accent nearly as well as the German language does, in my opinion :V Than again, I haven't met or seen very many French people, so I don't know. Also, Bavarian German, but I don't know if that even counts as German tbh, it's just its own thing I guess. It sounds like an entirely different language to me sometimes despite the fact I live in a state bordering it, so god forbid how it'd sound to someone like a Frisian or someone far away from Bavaria. Funnily enough though, I always found that once you get past Bavaria and into Austria they speak the language in a really fancy sounding way even though they're even further down and right by Bavaria and all, so I think that's kind of ironic. Maybe I'm weird for thinking Austrians tend to sound good when they speak, though, so I don't know. |
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Lisbon said: Than again, I haven't met or seen very many French people, so I don't know. You have it spot on with the nasal tones. French is full of those complex nasal vowel sounds - to learn how to tell between and to rightly pronounce for example 'son', 'sein' and 'sang' is extremely hard. Given that so many words in French sound like that and are spelled in many different ways makes it very challeging to learn. There's nothing throaty about French though, our 'r' is on the soft side, especially compared with the Spanish jota and the /x/, غ and ع of Arabic (all throat-based I think). Anglo-saxons think we have this weird rrrrr way of speaking for some reason, when we just don't. Also, Bavarian German, but I don't know if that even counts as German tbh, it's just its own thing I guess. It sounds like an entirely different language to me sometimes despite the fact I live in a state bordering it, so god forbid how it'd sound to someone like a Frisian or someone far away from Bavaria. Funnily enough though, I always found that once you get past Bavaria and into Austria they speak the language in a really fancy sounding way even though they're even further down and right by Bavaria and all, so I think that's kind of ironic. Maybe I'm weird for thinking Austrians tend to sound good when they speak, though, so I don't know. Dated a girl who grew up in Bavaria and she would often say the same and base the difference as being from the original state of Franconia, from where High German originated, as opposed to Low German for the West and North of Bavaria, but not sure if this was accurate or for giggles. According to most southern Germans I've met, Austrians sound like country bumpkins - especially when saying stuff like Baba instead of Tschüss. |
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Euhin said: - Most of the European languages mainly French and Scottish English - Arabic - Russian - Mexican  THIS IS MURICA SPEAK MURICAN OR GIT OUT |
Animeic said: I know not what thou speakest of:German and Arabic, sound like the speaker is always angry and every word sounds like a swear word. You should probably not get your Impressions from Hitler Speeches alone. This is how Austrian German normally sounds for Example (the Reporter speaks German Standard German). This is how Swiss German is like (that's one of the safer Videos from him, you might want to use Headphones at Home). This is how Standard German with a Transylvanian Saxon Accent sounds like (the interviewed Guy on the right, who is currently President of Romania). DeathNyx said: I was talking primarily about the Grammar, but Sardinian is very possible, because it has been better isolated.Noboru said: Romanian is grammatically probably the closest Language to Vulgar Latin, the spoken Latin in the Roman Empire, where other Languages have lost Features such as having a third (neutral) Gender and the Case Differentiation in Nouns. It's Sardinian language the closest to Latin than Italian, Iberians and than the others such Romanian and French who have Slavic/Germanic influences. French is the furthest Language away from Latin, Romanian is much closer than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages#Vocabulary_comparison. Romanian sounds much more like Latin if you don't use the ă to represent the Schwa in the indefinite Form, but use the definite Form swapping to a clear "a". Example: doamnă = Woman, Lady, Mistress, Madam, Wife; doamna = the Woman, the Lady, the Mistress, the Wife "domn" = Man, Gentleman, Mister, "domnul" = the Man, the Gentleman, the Mister (or when adressing someone as Mister...). Especially with the male Forms you can see that the typical Latin "-us" Ending for Male Nouns is preserved as "ul" in Romanian. |
| German - It sounds unpleasant to me and their words get entirely too long. I mean come on Germany, how do you expect anyone to pronounce "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" and yes that is a real word. |
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Isn't South Park supposed to sound shitty? I mean the characters in that show sound annoying and squeaky in every language. German can sound nice too~ |
AshitaNoJonasJun 22, 2016 9:57 AM
| Japanese, if it weren't for anime I wouldn't give a shit about this language. |
| 1. french 2.danish 3.russian 4.polish 5.korean (south) i have no idea if south speak the same language as north, xD 6.spanish 7.chinese, i think it is (mandarin) 8. icelandic 9.italian 10. turkish |
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Bobby2Hands said: German - It sounds unpleasant to me and their words get entirely too long. I mean come on Germany, how do you expect anyone to pronounce "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" and yes that is a real word. I shall try to aid you! Rind (rhymes with bend) Flishe Et-e-ketear-rungs (the ear-rung part, with the two r's, isn't a sound in English afaik, try to imagine pronouncing r from the back of your throat I guess?) über vach (imagine the most german way of saying ach, like how you'd imagine someone saying Achtung - with that really throaty noise I guess) ungs awf gahben über tra-gungs guh zets I'm not really a German teacher or anything so I might not have given you the best visualization of how that'd look in an English pronunciation, but I tried :V Wasn't really as easy as I thought it'd be, lol. Keep in mind that there can be a lot of varying on accent in the German language depending on where you're at, too, so this is my best throw at showing you how a Hessian would pronounce it. Also, there's a longer word afaik Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung Then there's the beautiful arbitrary gender pronouns where we speak of toilets as if they are female and coffee as if it is male, yet we still have a neuter pronoun. Das, der, den, die, etc. You pretty much have to memorize that bit. remmi_demmi said: Lisbon said: Than again, I haven't met or seen very many French people, so I don't know. You have it spot on with the nasal tones. French is full of those complex nasal vowel sounds - to learn how to tell between and to rightly pronounce for example 'son', 'sein' and 'sang' is extremely hard. Given that so many words in French sound like that and are spelled in many different ways makes it very challeging to learn. There's nothing throaty about French though, our 'r' is on the soft side, especially compared with the Spanish jota and the /x/, غ and ع of Arabic (all throat-based I think). Anglo-saxons think we have this weird rrrrr way of speaking for some reason, when we just don't. Also, Bavarian German, but I don't know if that even counts as German tbh, it's just its own thing I guess. It sounds like an entirely different language to me sometimes despite the fact I live in a state bordering it, so god forbid how it'd sound to someone like a Frisian or someone far away from Bavaria. Funnily enough though, I always found that once you get past Bavaria and into Austria they speak the language in a really fancy sounding way even though they're even further down and right by Bavaria and all, so I think that's kind of ironic. Maybe I'm weird for thinking Austrians tend to sound good when they speak, though, so I don't know. Dated a girl who grew up in Bavaria and she would often say the same and base the difference as being from the original state of Franconia, from where High German originated, as opposed to Low German for the West and North of Bavaria, but not sure if this was accurate or for giggles. According to most southern Germans I've met, Austrians sound like country bumpkins - especially when saying stuff like Baba instead of Tschüss. Well, from my time in the American south, I always thought that Swiss people sounded more like the German equivalent of those kind of country bumpkins tbh, but that might just be because they speak the language slower than what I'm used to like a lot of people in East Texas did with American English |
ManabanJun 22, 2016 10:32 AM
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Bobby2Hands said: lol, that was just a special Case. In normal German Usage, you won't chain that many Words, only two or three at most and use the Genitive (can be translated as "of (the)" in English) for additional descriptive ones.German - It sounds unpleasant to me and their words get entirely too long. I mean come on Germany, how do you expect anyone to pronounce "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" and yes that is a real word. How to pronounce it? Easy, just how you would pronounce "Beef Meat Labeling Supervision Duties Delegation Law." The last Noun names what it is, all other Nouns before are just descriptive. In German Spelling, you just write them together, because it is considered a Word. After all, it used to be the short Form of a Law. Here's how to pronounce it: IPA: [ˌʀɪntflaɪ̯ʃʔetikɛˌtiːʀʊŋsʔyːbɐˌvaχʊŋsˌʔaʊ̯fɡaːbn̩ʔyːbɐˈtʀaːɡʊŋsɡəˌzɛʦ] Just because there aren't Spaces doesn't mean you can't make Breaks. I would break it up in Speech like this: Rindfleisch etikettierungs überwachungsaufgaben übertragungsgesetz. |
Noboru said: Just because there aren't Spaces doesn't mean you can't make Breaks. I would break it up in Speech like this: Rindfleisch etikettierungs überwachungsaufgaben übertragungsgesetz. Then just write it like that you linguistic masochists. |
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Bobby2Hands said: Actually, scrap that, making a Break after überwachungs and adding aufgaben to the last Part makes more Sense.Noboru said: Just because there aren't Spaces doesn't mean you can't make Breaks. I would break it up in Speech like this: Rindfleisch etikettierungs überwachungsaufgaben übertragungsgesetz. Then just write it like that you linguistic masochists. So it's "[...]überwachungs aufgabenübertragungsgesetz" No, because we're consequent with our Compounds, as opposed to the ones in English. It makes it much easier to spell Things if one Subject or Object is one Word. |
Lisbon said: remmi_demmi said: You have it spot on with the nasal tones. French is full of those complex nasal vowel sounds - to learn how to tell between and to rightly pronounce for example 'son', 'sein' and 'sang' is extremely hard. Given that so many words in French sound like that and are spelled in many different ways makes it very challeging to learn. There's nothing throaty about French though, our 'r' is on the soft side, especially compared with the Spanish jota and the /x/, غ and ع of Arabic (all throat-based I think). Anglo-saxons think we have this weird rrrrr way of speaking for some reason, when we just don't. Dated a girl who grew up in Bavaria and she would often say the same and base the difference as being from the original state of Franconia, from where High German originated, as opposed to Low German for the West and North of Bavaria, but not sure if this was accurate or for giggles. According to most southern Germans I've met, Austrians sound like country bumpkins - especially when saying stuff like Baba instead of Tschüss. Well, from my time in the American south, I always thought that Swiss people sounded more like the German equivalent of those kind of country bumpkins tbh, but that might just be because they speak the language slower than what I'm used to like a lot of people in East Texas did with American English The Swiss are notorious slow speakers of French too, but they do use similar or familiar words or expressions. Austrians, from what I can recall, it's mostly to do with their odd choice of words for daily situations, when it comes to some food items for instance. We have the same thing with French-speaking Canadians. Probably more a dialect thing than accent. |
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| Swedish. I wish one word responses were possible. |
| i bet 90% of the people who say german sounds harsh or brutal with a carzy amount of long words, have not a single clue how german actaully sounds. btt.: i cant stand eastern europe and arabic languages. and of course french sucks. (i dont think german is a beautiful language but we dont speak like hitler either) |
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Comic_Sans said: +++++++++Kim Kardashian English (YUCK) Well I don't think any language truly sounds ugly but if I really had to pick I would say either german or russian. |
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| chinese thai majority of arabic languages I love korean and italian btw also fu to everyone who said german :< |
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