i realized i really enjoy the way Filipino sounds the other day, more the way it sounds when men speak it than women.
i think Cantonese sounds very grating depending on who is speaking it.
What do you love/hate to hear other people speak?
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)
German = likeFrench = don't like
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:14 (seventeen years ago)
Favourite: !XhosaLeast Favourite: Welsh
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:17 (seventeen years ago)
Don't like don't like don't like PORTUGUESE
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:44 (seventeen years ago)
Don't like Italian
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:50 (seventeen years ago)
Like: Japanese - so staccato!
― calumerio, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:58 (seventeen years ago)
russian is pretty sweet
― soderborg, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:46 (seventeen years ago)
Brazilian Portuguese sounds very nice.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)
Really? Finnish sounded quite nice!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)
afrikaans could use some work
― soderborg, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)
Dutch not the greatest
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:52 (seventeen years ago)
can't think of any i dislike.
but the main situations i hear other languages is people shouting in them on their phones on buses and that clouds judgement a bit.
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)
Also not really taking into account various dialects and variants
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)
I understand Spanish very well, but I'm not quite fluent. Two dialects of Spanish I find extremely hard to understand and thus fall under this topic would be the Buenos Aires accent and the Cuban accent. The former is lovely, sounds a bit like a cross between Spanish and Italian, softens Ss often to the point of elision, pronounces the sound of y or ll as like a softer S in measure etc. Cuban Spanish isn't all bad but it can sound absolutely barbarous at times.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:19 (seventeen years ago)
And obviously there are lots of Cuban accents I might just have came across the less euphonious ones.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:20 (seventeen years ago)
I like German too.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:24 (seventeen years ago)
I like Farsi. It makes everything sound a lot more urgent.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)
Classic - GermanDud - Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)
RUSSIAN
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:32 (seventeen years ago)
Russian sounds like English backwards. Disappointingly, Russian backwards sounds like... Russian.
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:36 (seventeen years ago)
C: German, Serbo-Croat, Portuguese (esp Brazilian)D: Finnish, Swiss German, Danish
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)
love non-mexican spanish accents (i'm mexican), french, urdu, and brazilian portuguese.
― primalfixations, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:15 (seventeen years ago)
TBH I'm not sure I would recognise most of these if I just happened to hear someone speaking on the bus.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:15 (seventeen years ago)
Turkish is pretty dud too
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:16 (seventeen years ago)
It's a funny one, Turkish
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:18 (seventeen years ago)
Dutch is DUDch. Danish is also a mess.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:39 (seventeen years ago)
Dutch is fun to read though!!!!!
― Funky Buddha Lounge (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 15 November 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)
on the internet at least
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Saturday, 15 November 2008 21:03 (seventeen years ago)
― Funky Buddha Lounge (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 15 November 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)
like: russian, german, swedish, norwegian, spanish, farsi, arabic, canada frenchdon't like: portuguese, italian, japanese, france french
― ketchup dood (harbl), Saturday, 15 November 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)