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[cattiechaos]

Beware of possibly incoherency due to lack of sleep

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My favorites to listen to are Italian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Persian.

[di_glossia]

I find Arabic to be the most beautiful language I've ever heard, which is definitely based off the fact that I grew up listening to Arabic music (my mother bellydances- I think habibi was one of the first genuinely foreign words I ever learned.). For me, it comes down to regional dialects more than the overall language: I prefer Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic to others, the northern German dialects to the southern, Castilian Spanish to any of the Central or South American ones, and Beijing Mandarin to all others.

I don't really like French at all. I don't see the beauty of nasal sounds. English has no real appeal to me; I think it's greatest quality is that, when sung, it has no inherent beauty or ugliness and depends entirely on the singer to make the sounds appealing.

[icanseenow]

Icelandic is the language I love listening to the most.

But then again, it all depends on accents for me too. I can swoon for hours about a particular scottish accent but don't find English in itself to sound too wonderful for me. Same with Norwegian, varies from dialect. I really like Northern Norwegian.

I also love the sound of Greenlandic, Welsh, Turkish (I didn't always think that way because the German-Turkish mix on the streets here can sound really nasty), ... others.

There's really no language I dislike listening to but I'm not the biggest fan (sound-wise) of German, Dutch (I speak both), Italian..

And with Spanish, again like the English, I love Mexican Spanish but Spanish from Spain a lot less so.

[tsubasa_en11]

but I've noticed that languages get stereotyped just like people do.

I feel you. My friends find Korean to be very harsh and rude while Japanese sounds sweet and soft. As I love both languages and enjoy the differences and similarities of them, sometimes I get a little annoyed by the way people commented on how irking or irritating Korean sounds to them. But then, I understand that's their preferences, just that I wish people would not be so harsh when commenting on things they don't like. Oh well. *shrugs*

[cattiechaos]

I think every language has the potential to sound harsh and rude and sweet and soft. No language sounds beautiful if someone is using it to yell at you! My friends seem to enjoy it when I speak Korean, and I really enjoy listening to Japanese speakers as well. It's a very melodic language to me although again, it's definitely not melodic if someone is using it to scold me! XD

[tsubasa_en11]

That is what I think too! Then come to think of it, my friends know Korean merely from Korean dramas, which you see more shouting and yelling than Japanese's in general. Okay, now that's understandable. XD;

[cattiechaos]

Oh that's so true XD Silly Korean dramas...but they are so good! o 3o;

[sollersuk]

Oh, Welsh, partly because it's such a beautiful language to sing in. One of my uncles used to say, "For all I know, the angels speak Hebrew. But I'm damn sure they sing in Welsh."

[cattiechaos]

Can you recommend me any Welsh songs/artists I could listen to on Youtube?