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Jun 21, 2016 11:20 AM
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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.

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Jun 21, 2016 11:23 AM
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Jun 21, 2016 11:24 AM
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Spanish and Portuguese are very ugly sounding. I even find their written forms to be quite ugly compared to other Romance languages.
Jun 21, 2016 11:26 AM
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mandarin chinese tbh but maybe because i myself can't pronounce it
Jun 21, 2016 11:26 AM
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JD2411 said:
Spanish and Portuguese are very ugly sounding. I even find their written forms to be quite ugly compared to other Romance languages.


Portuguese from Portugal or Brazil? Because Portuguese from Brazil does sound nice. In my opinion.
Jun 21, 2016 11:26 AM
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I think Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Spanish all sound really ugly.
Jun 21, 2016 11:29 AM
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chinese, italian, american english, french french, gulf arabic dialect, hindi.

though german, swedish, and turkish sound incerdibly beautiful imo , unpopular opinion I know
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Jun 21, 2016 11:32 AM
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French is a joke, but the korean, and chinese are the worst. Sounds likes squealing
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Agree

I would also add Russian

JD2411 said:
Spanish and Portuguese are very ugly sounding. I even find their written forms to be quite ugly compared to other Romance languages.


Theres Nothing prettier than "hijo puta"

Jun 21, 2016 11:37 AM

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thai, mandarin, and french

and japanese. jk
Jun 21, 2016 11:40 AM

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Dutch. Sounds like a drunk trying to speak English and Deutsch at the same time.
Chinese. I really don't like how it sounds.
Portuguese (Brazilian). Tried watching a Brazilian series once, it was a horrible experience. Not sure how much different it is from the European variant.
Jun 21, 2016 11:42 AM

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badwolf45f said:


Agree

I would also add Russian


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwJ7Nq1vQs yes yes I agree
Jun 21, 2016 11:46 AM

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Mandarin, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, German, Portuguese (Portugal, not Brazil), Russian.

American English really grates on me, but I wouldn't say I find it ugly; just not pleasant.

I think French sounds kinda gross cause it sounds like they constantly have phlegm in their throat.
Jun 21, 2016 11:46 AM

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chinese
korean
arabic
turkish
african languages


one of the most beautiful languages is french, when spoken by a woman. alizee <3


Jun 21, 2016 11:46 AM

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For Chinese - compared to the much more beautiful sounding Japanese - I always think "seems like dogs" (maybe I get that connotation because I know they also like do eat dogs). Just sounds not good.
Jun 21, 2016 11:47 AM

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German





Cantonese - Hong Kong




Ukrainian

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German, russian, arabic, and english with a country accent.
Jun 21, 2016 11:50 AM

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My favourite language is Mongolian.

My least favourite is... Romanian
Jun 21, 2016 11:57 AM

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I can't stand Chinese and Korean @.@

badwolf45f said:

Theres Nothing prettier than "hijo puta"


I like "me cago en tus muertos" more xD Such a classic.
Jun 21, 2016 11:57 AM
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Obviously my own language (Romanian), I've been told that I sound like a Russian trying to speak Italian.

The cringe is real! Also they weren't even trying to lip sinc back then.
Jun 21, 2016 11:57 AM

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StraightNoChaser said:
My least favourite is... Romanian
;_; that's my favourite. you're breaking my heart, senpai.
Jun 21, 2016 11:59 AM

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Dutch sounds weird to me, though when I was in Amsterdam I heard more English than Dutch.

And Finnish. It sounds like no other European language to me.
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Jun 21, 2016 12:00 PM

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TiaDee said:
Obviously my own language (Romanian), I've been told that I sound like a Russian trying to speak Italian.
That's probably because Romanian is a Romance language (hence the similarity to Italian) that's heavily influenced by Slavic languages (hence why it sounds similar to Russian).

I don't think Romanian is not an ugly language, tbh. I like how it sounds.
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StraightNoChaser said:
My least favourite is... Romanian

^This guy (gal) gets it!
leonstone said:
;_; that's my favourite. you're breaking my heart, senpai.

Why would you like it? It sounds neither like a proper romance language (like French of Italian) neither like a proper slavic language (like Ukrainian or Polish) it's a mongrel -.-
Zees said:
That's probably because Romanian is a Romance language (hence the similarity to Italian) that's heavily influenced by Slavic languages (hence why it sounds similar to Russian).

Yeah I know, I laughed for a good two minutes when the guy told me that.
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leonstone said:
StraightNoChaser said:
My least favourite is... Romanian
;_; that's my favourite. you're breaking my heart, senpai.




I feel like a warrior while hearing Mongolian..

I WANT TO INVADE CHINA!!
Jun 21, 2016 12:04 PM

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TiaDee said:
StraightNoChaser said:
My least favourite is... Romanian

^This guy (gal) gets it!
leonstone said:
;_; that's my favourite. you're breaking my heart, senpai.

Why would you like it? It sounds neither like a proper romance language (like French of Italian) neither like a proper slavic language (like Ukrainian or Polish) it's a mongrel -.-


I dislike more romanians than i dislike romanian language though.
Jun 21, 2016 12:04 PM

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JackDuluoz said:
And Finnish. It sounds like no other European language to me.
it's an uralic language that's why it sounds different, doesn't mean it doesn't sound pretty though
TiaDee said:
Obviously my own language (Romanian), I've been told that I sound like a Russian trying to speak Italian.

The cringe is real! Also they weren't even trying to lip sinc back then.
romanian sounds very beautiful imo, maybe you just don't like it because it's your own language xD
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leonstone said:
;_; that's my favourite. you're breaking my heart, senpai.




I feel like a warrior while hearing Mongolian..

I WANT TO INVADE CHINA!!
lol these days are gone baby , wait they use cyrillic writing ?? :o
Jun 21, 2016 12:06 PM

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Korean and Vietnamese for some reason sounds off to me, it's as if the syallabus doesn't really have a pattern to it.
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leonstone said:
JackDuluoz said:
And Finnish. It sounds like no other European language to me.
it's an uralic language that's why it sounds different, doesn't mean it doesn't sound pretty though
TiaDee said:
Obviously my own language (Romanian), I've been told that I sound like a Russian trying to speak Italian.

The cringe is real! Also they weren't even trying to lip sinc back then.
romanian sounds very beautiful imo, maybe you just don't like it because it's your own language xD
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I feel like a warrior while hearing Mongolian..

I WANT TO INVADE CHINA!!
lol these days are gone baby , wait they use cyrillic writing ?? :o


They do, and they also use another sort of writing that i can't write in.
Jun 21, 2016 12:08 PM
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leonstone said:
romanian sounds very beautiful imo, maybe you just don't like it because it's your own language xD

Probably, it must be the cringeworthy dubs from when I was a kid xD.
StraightNoChaser said:

I dislike more romanians than i dislike romanian language though.

Aww, I love you too <3
Jun 21, 2016 12:09 PM

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TiaDee said:
leonstone said:
romanian sounds very beautiful imo, maybe you just don't like it because it's your own language xD

Probably, it must be the cringeworthy dubs from when I was a kid xD.
StraightNoChaser said:

I dislike more romanians than i dislike romanian language though.

Aww, I love you too <3


I made the mistake to watch Romanians TV Series in the past..
Jun 21, 2016 12:09 PM

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TiaDee said:

Why would you like it? It sounds neither like a proper romance language (like French of Italian) neither like a proper slavic language (like Ukrainian or Polish) it's a mongrel -.-
exactly , it's a beautiful mix, that captures the best of both lang families.
no slavic or romance language could compare with romanian imo, hands down one of the best langs >.<
and anime dubs sound cringy in literally any language that is not japanese lol
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They do, and they also use another sort of writing that i can't write in.
I checked that out, it looks like arabic that's flipped by 90 degrees lol
Jun 21, 2016 12:09 PM

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Any local dialect of Hindi in North India. Doesn't even sound like Hindi and it's more gibberish than anything. Despite being from South India myself, I hate the sound of southern languages. Plus the accent I got from speaking a southern language sounds like shit.

I honestly find European languages to sound more beautiful than my own, maybe because I'm biased against my own language. The only language that I dislike hearing is French. It sounds like your trying to cough up the phlegm in your throat out.
Jun 21, 2016 12:12 PM

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StraightNoChaser said:
TiaDee said:

Probably, it must be the cringeworthy dubs from when I was a kid xD.

Aww, I love you too <3


I made the mistake to watch Romanians TV Series in the past..

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth
Jun 21, 2016 12:14 PM

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leonstone said:
StraightNoChaser said:


I made the mistake to watch Romanians TV Series in the past..

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth
leonstone said:
StraightNoChaser said:


I made the mistake to watch Romanians TV Series in the past..

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth


Lolno, they are fuckin' superficial for the most part.
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StraightNoChaser said:
leonstone said:

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth
leonstone said:

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth


Lolno, they are fuckin' superficial for the most part.

you're a generalizing racist white scum, romanians are one of the best people in the world, stfu
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StraightNoChaser said:

I made the mistake to watch Romanians TV Series in the past..

I'm sorry, I know it must have been pretty horrendous for you, but I couldn't help but laugh.
leonstone said:
exactly , it's a beautiful mix, that captures the best of both lang families.
no slavic or romance language could compare with romanian imo, hands down one of the best langs >.<
and anime dubs sound cringy in literally any language that is not japanese lol

I find it pretty funny and fascinating that the thing that I dislike about my language is the very thing you like about it, but hey, I'm glad you enjoy it. And yeah you're right maybe it's because I grew up with it, I can't possibly consider it anything special since I've heard it all my life.
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leonstone said:
StraightNoChaser said:


Lolno, they are fuckin' superficial for the most part.

you're a generalizing racist white scum, romanians are one of the best people in the world, stfu


Leo, pls..................

Romania is full of people that only care about their muscles and can't see anything over that.
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TiaDee said:
I find it pretty funny and fascinating that the thing that I dislike about my language is the very thing you like about it, but hey, I'm glad you enjoy it. And yeah you're right maybe it's because I grew up with it, I can't possibly consider it anything special since I've heard it all my life.

you should teach me some insults bro, well ..... other than gypsy xD

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leonstone said:

you're a generalizing racist white scum, romanians are one of the best people in the world, stfu


Leo, pls..................

Romania is full of people that only care about their muscles and can't see anything over that.

you're biased af, they're unique and special and beautiful
Jun 21, 2016 12:23 PM

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Macedonian.

Pretty shitty imo....
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leonstone said:
TiaDee said:
I find it pretty funny and fascinating that the thing that I dislike about my language is the very thing you like about it, but hey, I'm glad you enjoy it. And yeah you're right maybe it's because I grew up with it, I can't possibly consider it anything special since I've heard it all my life.

you should teach me some insults bro, well ..... other than gypsy xD

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Leo, pls..................

Romania is full of people that only care about their muscles and can't see anything over that.

you're biased af, they're unique and special and beautiful




La Roumanie, c'est le pays des douchebags.
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leonstone said:

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth

a country of beggars and thieves....


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crashinho said:
Macedonian.

Pretty shitty imo....


I find it beautiful tbh...........
Jun 21, 2016 12:25 PM

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Jazz please.

You literally find every language beautiful man.
Jun 21, 2016 12:28 PM

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StraightNoChaser said:
leonstone said:

you should teach me some insults bro, well ..... other than gypsy xD


you're biased af, they're unique and special and beautiful




La Roumanie, c'est le pays des douchebags.

alors .... le rapport ? ..... va too fir futr

crashinho said:
Jazz please.

You literally find every language beautiful man.
not romanian, don't mind jazz he's stupid and racist, macedonian is indeed beautiful though lol
Nigami_Shin said:
leonstone said:

you suck , romanians are the best and hottest and prettiest people on earth

a country of beggars and thieves....

your opinion is irrelevant lol, you basically hate everyone
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leonstone said:
StraightNoChaser said:




La Roumanie, c'est le pays des douchebags.

alors .... le rapport ? ..... va too fir futr


Lol..................................
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crashinho said:
Jazz please.

You literally find every language beautiful man.


Because life is a rose... sure......
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You're the same Sia, don't blame everything on poor Jazzy.

So you're telling me that this sounds beautiful?

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0XWkmUpwfXP
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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).
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