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Jun 24, 2016 7:53 AM
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i think once you get to know a culture better you also start to like their language, thats why i do not hate any language at all, there was a time when i did not like japanese, but now i do
Jun 24, 2016 8:14 AM
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have you never heard a normal person speak arabic excluding all these war stuff around them?
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Jun 24, 2016 8:21 AM

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Probably Filipino English and Engrish. but that's like a sub-language but I don't think there's a language I don't like hearing, especially if the speaker is very fluent.
Jun 24, 2016 8:47 AM

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Got to put Irish in here, Irish myself and I find the language incredibly cringy to speak.

Jun 24, 2016 10:48 AM

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Finnish, Russian, European Spanish and Portuguese, Danish. I certainly don't feel intense disgust or anything, but yeah...
To be honest I think almost no language actually sounds good (let alone beautiful).
I like the sound of Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Farsi, Romanian, some dialects of Italian (better yet: the minority language Zeneize (Genovese) sometimes referred to as dialect). Most others than I can think of are "ok" at best.
I think Dutch and German sound way better than most people think. Dutch may be harsh but German is one of the least harsh sounding languages of Europe in my ears...
Jun 24, 2016 11:04 AM

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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 -.-

To my ears it just sounds like a Romance language with a lot of slavic words. Perhaps a mongrel in a sense, but that's true for so many languages (English being quite noteworthy).
Jun 24, 2016 11:05 AM

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Jun 24, 2016 12:01 PM

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I don't like the sound of Russian and English.

German, Spanish and Irish are the ones I like most.
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Jun 24, 2016 1:23 PM

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orosan said:


have you never heard a normal person speak arabic excluding all these war stuff around them?


Considering I play Battlefield and deal with KSA laggers 24/7, yes, yes I have lol
Jun 24, 2016 2:10 PM

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how does a language "sound pretty" ??????

a voice, yes. but a language?

: ( what r u guyse talkin about
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Jun 24, 2016 2:19 PM
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eGirlSlaying said:
orosan said:


have you never heard a normal person speak arabic excluding all these war stuff around them?


Considering I play Battlefield and deal with KSA laggers 24/7, yes, yes I have lol


i said "normal" not stupid kids . lol xD
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Jun 24, 2016 3:07 PM

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orosan said:

i said "normal" not stupid kids . lol xD


In my experience people tend to really dislike the sounds of letters like qaf, kha and ayn.
These don't sound "normal" to most non-Arabs no matter what. ^^
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Kidemonas said:
orosan said:

i said "normal" not stupid kids . lol xD


In my experience people tend to really dislike the sounds of letters like qaf, kha and ayn.
These don't sound "normal" to most non-Arabs no matter what. ^^


so i assume hebrew would also be hated considering they use the same type of pronunciation.

the only time i think those type would be hated is if someone from a country side with a very rough dialect saying it.
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Jun 24, 2016 3:40 PM

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orosan said:

so i assume hebrew would also be hated considering they use the same type of pronunciation.

the only time i think those type would be hated is if someone from a country side with a very rough dialect saying it.


Yeah, I guess most people wouldn't like the sound of Hebrew though I haven't heard many comments on it (probably because it's not a language you hear a lot). I personally don't like it, though that is not by merit of it sounding like Arabic. They do something with their "r" that I find aesthetically unappealing for example. Arabic, to me, ranges from pretty to atrocious, depending on accent, speaker and context (yes, much more so than other languages).
(Btw, re-reading what I wrote earlier I realize that I might have made it sound as though I'm Arab, which I'm not - just to clarify.)
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orosan said:
eGirlSlaying said:


Considering I play Battlefield and deal with KSA laggers 24/7, yes, yes I have lol


i said "normal" not stupid kids . lol xD


LMAO then idk what else i'm supposed to listen to.
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Kidemonas said:
orosan said:

so i assume hebrew would also be hated considering they use the same type of pronunciation.

the only time i think those type would be hated is if someone from a country side with a very rough dialect saying it.


Yeah, I guess most people wouldn't like the sound of Hebrew though I haven't heard many comments on it (probably because it's not a language you hear a lot). I personally don't like it, though that is not by merit of it sounding like Arabic. They do something with their "r" that I find aesthetically unappealing for example. Arabic, to me, ranges from pretty to atrocious, depending on accent, speaker and context (yes, much more so than other languages).
(Btw, re-reading what I wrote earlier I realize that I might have made it sound as though I'm Arab, which I'm not - just to clarify.)


there are some parts of i think most languages have something that makes it unappealing to foriegners ears, though but personally when i listen to some of my friends speaking it it doesnt sound as bad as what the media protrays it to be, atleast none of them shouting at my ear ALLAHUAKBAR every 5 seconds.
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Jun 25, 2016 7:46 AM

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orosan said:

there are some parts of i think most languages have something that makes it unappealing to foriegners ears, though but personally when i listen to some of my friends speaking it it doesnt sound as bad as what the media protrays it to be, atleast none of them shouting at my ear ALLAHUAKBAR every 5 seconds.

Yeah, I think it really comes down a lot to how foreign certain sounds are, especially if they are perceived as harsh or whiny. For example, Tolkien's Elven languages probably don't sound offensive to many people, because they're very smooth and liquid (even while being utterly foreign).
Jun 25, 2016 7:37 PM

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Chinese (sounds annoying for me) and Euskera.


Jun 25, 2016 10:14 PM

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I don't like Spanish or Chinese. And I really hate English even though I speak it...
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Jun 27, 2016 12:44 AM

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any language i can't speak fluently, so basically everything.
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Arabic, but that's kind of obvious, isn't it? I'm sure it has a lot to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict thing.
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Jun 27, 2016 5:16 AM

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To be completely honest... I don't really like the sound of any Asian languages... They're just not that pretty.
Jun 27, 2016 6:19 AM

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Finnish, arabic/ turkish, french, swedish
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French. The way they talk is.. something.
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Any dialect of Chinese & Arabic
doesn't sound too appealing to my ears.

Also, the languages of former Yugoslavia countries
don't really belong to the list of my favorites either.
Jun 27, 2016 7:48 AM

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I'm surprised no one said Indian, their English dialect also sounds horrible.
Jun 27, 2016 7:53 AM

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eGirlSlaying said:
orosan said:


have you never heard a normal person speak arabic excluding all these war stuff around them?


Considering I play Battlefield and deal with KSA laggers 24/7, yes, yes I have lol


saudi and gulf arabic dialects sound ugly and old, Levantine Arabic is pretty sexy actually especially Lebanese
Jun 27, 2016 7:59 AM

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Russian and Arabic, they sound like shit. Russian sounds even worse than Arabic, though.
Jun 28, 2016 6:12 PM

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Yatyear said:
I'm surprised no one said Indian, their English dialect also sounds horrible.

You mean Hindi? And there's more languages in India than Hindi. And not all of them are of the Indo-European family...
Jun 28, 2016 7:32 PM

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French.

Strangely, I used to find it attractive, enough to study in high school. But that may be why it has soured to my ears.. "familiarity breeds contempt" and such.
Jun 28, 2016 7:45 PM

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I never really liked the way the Chinese language sounded.


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Jul 12, 2016 7:26 PM

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Every languages is okay to me except binary language (1&0)

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Jul 12, 2016 8:26 PM

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German and English. Ironically enough, I live in America and am a native English speaker.



Jul 12, 2016 8:29 PM

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Danish is probably the weirdest language I heard.


So my mom was a lit major and took Danish just to be able to read in Danish, but then she fell in love with it and moved to Denmark for a year. Anyways, she ocasionally (especailly when she is mad) curses in Danish and it is the funniest sounding thing ever! I love it! XD . Such a strange language!



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I think Russian
I love arabic
that me read holy Quran with Arabic language
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0LxUGvZsyfN
Jul 13, 2016 6:34 AM

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Dutch, I don't hate it but I sure think it sounds ugly. It just has these ''hard'' sounding letters you don't have in English. Like the g: it almost sounds like you got something stuck in your throat.

Source: am Dutch




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German is an interesting language, but it frankly isn't the best when sound comes to mind.


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In my opinion German is an ugly-sounding language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb15L8ReT5I (She shows it pretty well. :P)
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I think Russian
I love arabic
that me read holy Quran with Arabic language
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0LxUGvZsyfN



wash 3amel l7amla tanwiriya??? hhhh
good good

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SSCLANO said:
-Mr_X- said:
I think Russian
I love arabic
that me read holy Quran with Arabic language
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0LxUGvZsyfN



wash 3amel l7amla tanwiriya??? hhhh
good good
hhhhhhhh tba3tini ila hona ayoha ala3in
nas hona 3alam lwahdihm al3onsoriya kbira tijahana
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Turkish, Maghrebi, Hebrew, and anything that sounds even remotely Arabic. Other than that; Polish and Ukrainian.

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Jul 15, 2016 7:53 PM

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-Mr_X- said:
hhhhhhhh tba3tini ila hona ayoha ala3in
nas hona 3alam lwahdihm al3onsoriya kbira tijahana



la la la...machi kolchi
kayn ba3d menhoum 3ay9een b Ddin ki howa...w 3arfin belli kayn kharijin 3an 9anoun

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SSCLANO said:
-Mr_X- said:
hhhhhhhh tba3tini ila hona ayoha ala3in
nas hona 3alam lwahdihm al3onsoriya kbira tijahana



la la la...machi kolchi
kayn ba3d menhoum 3ay9een b Ddin ki howa...w 3arfin belli kayn kharijin 3an 9anoun
n3m
ana 9asadto al3onsoriyina minhom
Jul 16, 2016 5:53 AM

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For me, it's probably german and dutch. They are both very roughly sounding languages... I don't like chinese or polish either.
On the other hand, french, Japanese, Italian, Spanish sounds the most beautiful for me. They are softer languages IMO
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