I just really love German. some people say it sounds angry and dull but I enjoy it. excuse my terrible explaining but it sounds rough and scratchy and I love that.
Anyone that thinks German sounds angry should listen to a German opera. I know opera isn't for everyone, hell, it's not for me :), but it really gives you a new perspective on the language.
It doesn't sound angry at all to me.
It does sometimes sound inhuman though, like a robot trying to be extra polite.
I do love the sound of its diphthongs though, they give me that Germanic vibe.
Lmao I think of the time when my dad thought German sounded very harsh until he visited Germany and then was like “wow, they speak way softer than thought”
My theory on why German “sounds angry” is that most people have only ever heard it in the context of movies and tv shows set during WWII or documentaries about the war. It’s like if you only heard English through Full Metal Jacket.
Czech is gorgeous. I studied German in high school and never understood why people thought it was an ugly language until our teacher showed us a dual language Czech / German film. I still thoroughly enjoyed learning German, but Czech was gorgeous.
IT'S A COINCIDENCE. I also realized it a long time ago.
Honestly, they're just great languages.
I also study Korean, Indonesian and Thai, but they're just not as attractive.
I found out that most Germans speak English nearly perfectly, which makes it hard to spot them on the whole. Latin language speakers are way easier to find since most of them prefer to stick to their native language (I’m generalising of course)
Or find them IRL, I occasionally hear some of them in big cities. I mean even if Chinese people are way more prevalent, Japanese immigrants or tourists still come.
English. Although I really like Japanese and written Mandarin. But for some reason the only language I was able to stick with for years up until this day was only English.
Hmmm, it usually sounds very nice, smooth, not harsh sounding, but totally different from our native language. Specially because many of us are raised listening to English songs. So it sound familiar, yet distant from our native language .
Yeah, it's difficult getting a description of english since most people find it familiar and learn it growing up. My Lithuanian coworker said we sound very nasal and soft.
Chinese and Japanese have some of the most beautiful scripts imo, their calligraphy are majestic.
In terms of my favorite sounding language I would have to go with Xhosa because it's the most unique sounding language with their clicks.
What I meant is that it’s easier to express something since grammar is simpler most words only include character pairs, which shorten the length of sentences.
I started watching some Thai series and now I'm in love with the language! Can't see myself ever learning it as it seems exceptionally hard, though I have picked up some words and phrases. I just really like the way it sounds.
I enjoy germanic languages a lot,
Studying Norwegian at uni, finding my way pretty decently (hopefully 😅) with Swedish and Danish,
And have recently been getting into learning German😊
Would deffinetly love to Expand onto Dutch and Icelandic some day too.
Although they all have something unique to them i just love the scratch and softness that somehow perpetually flows in them,
Outside of it i really like Finnish and Russian
Persian has fascinated me for a long time: I unironically feel that if someone wanted to learn "a new language" and didn't know which one I would recommend Persian if you're picking out of a black hat:
* Sounds beautiful and there aren't many sounds too alien to English speakers.
* Easy grammar, the *worst* part is the verbs but even that's not so bad. No grammatical gender and other than just kind of having to blindly memorize a separate past/present stem for verbs, verb conjugation is super regular.
* Calligraphy and script are beautiful.
* Colorful expressions and poetry: I love how deeply metaphor is baked into even common expressions in the language.
Turkish is also a very fun one for me. Going into it all I really knew was that it was unrelated to Indo-European languages and had vowel harmony, and I was in for a treat. I love the sound of it, especially in music. It's such a delight to speak and to read stories in.
One that I want to learn more of is Tagalog. The grammar and syntax seem really interesting and the Philippines is a country I would love to learn more about. I also like the sound of Yoruba a lot and would also love to learn more about Nigeria and West Africa generally.
Closer to home for me, I really like the sound of Tamil, especially in music. There's a fun way it rolls around in your mouth when you say phrases in it, and I like that there's a lot of literature in Tamil and the way that a lot of effort has been put into promoting the language.
Not even joking, Uzbek.
To me Uzbek is like the bridge of Asian languages. Uzbek has borrowed a little bit of something for every major Language in Asia, as a native Hindi/Urdu speaker i see so much of my language in Uzbek, so many Farsi words and Arabic words that we borrowed they borrowed as well, seeing Russian words sprinkled throughout the language along with all the native Turkic words.
For me Turkish grammar just makes sense, despite lacking vowel Harmony Uzbek still sounds really beautiful especially Uzbek poetry. I personally find Farsi to be the most beautiful language and since Uzbek uses a lot of Farsi words it's like a Turkic language i really enjoy.
Idk how to explain it, the first language i learned was Turkish, my native language at home is Hindi and Urdu. When i learn Uzbek it's like i feel at home. 30% of the time if i don't know a word in Uzbek it's probably the word from Urdu. The other 30% of the time it's probably the word from Turkish. 30% of the time it's a word i don't know. Despite that it feels so familiar to me.
feels so familiar and foreign
German 🇩🇪❤️
I've tried a few different languages but none of them clicked like German did. I absolutely love it and I dream of someday visiting and becoming fluent.
French 🥖 is also beautiful and I love learning about French history and I love French food 🇨🇵
Russian 🇷🇺. I really got into Russian because of the Cold War. I also love the sound of the language. And I really would love to someday see Moscow (if the war ever ends and everyone can just be friends).
Swedish: it just sounds too good
Valencian: i find it very interesting cause of the similarities to the languages that I speak (Italian, Spanish and Sardinian)
Mandarin chinese and Cantonese: incredible writing system and portals to different cultures from mine
Basque: the idea that basque is still spoken is crazy. It's just so interesting
Yeah, it's super-hard to describe. Hearing people speak it just doesn't hit the ear the same way it did before. I guess perhaps one of the reasons it sounded neat has to do with (of course what you said, but also) the factor of some languages sounding neat just because you don't understand them.. it's about half of the reason for me having an interest in languages like Finnish and Welsh
Dutch. Honestly it just sounds amazing. Sure the grammar is all over the place, has the de/het nouns and verbs that split in two but it was and is still a fun language to learn even if I am likely never to use it
I've had a crush on Mandarin Chinese for the past 7 years now! It's a deeply poetic language, rich with centuries of historical and cultural idioms. It's concise, easy to understand, and well constructed. Additionally, the way it sounds when it's spoken, in my opinion, is akin to a dream. It's been a beautiful language to learn!
Icelandic
Ancient language and sounds very satisfying, also uses Th- or -th which I think is unique to that and English?
(E.g thorn, think, thump or with, pith, sith)
Kazakh. It's very harmonious with both consonantal and vowel harmony.
I also really adore Turkish but that's probably just bias.
Japanese is also an extremely simple language (besides writing) and people don't realise it because of their biases. It's not hard in the sense that it has a lot of rules it's just very different.
Which words are Farsi in Uzbek?
I also think the sound of Uzbek is awesome. People from Uzbekistan have the strangest names, both first and last names.
They're absolutely fascinating.
The sound is what originally drew me to Japanese. But what I especially love now is the kanji. It kind of makes it feel like a puzzle. Put some general meanings together, what word do you get?
That's part of the reason I'd also say Japanese. Kanji is like a symbolic language in itself, each symbol has other minisymbols that build it. But then you have hiragana and katakana which are extra clues. It's quite amazing.
I also love how the grammar is mostly systematic and logical. There are very few things left to nuance or interpretation. Of course, there will be idioms and cultural expressions, which are really important to learn.
But the Japanese culture in general is all about efficiency, so once you know the rules, it is like unlocking a code.
I, unironically, like Uzbek and all other Turkic languages. I love the grammar, the logic behind them, and I find the cultures across them all super interesting.
Japanese. I’ve always had an interest in language learning, but for most languages I would usually stop doing my lessons after a month. With Japanese though, I’ve been learning for months without getting lazy a single day! The language is coming really easily to me and I’ve already been able to use it to communicate with people
My high school offered only 3 language courses: Latin, Spanish, French. I couldn't take them all, and still take the other required courses. I took Latin and Spanish, because I was SURE that I would learn French, one way or another. I guess I liked French.
I have had a fascination with Japan my whole adult life. I don't know exactly when or how that started. It wasn't specifically about the language, but it was enough to interest me in the language. I studied Japanese a bit in the 1980s. But studying alone, from a book, before the internet or mobile phones or cheap international calls...I didn't get very far.
Of the languages I know Latin. I love the usage of both prepositions and cases.
Of the languages I don't know Spanish Spanish. Love the fast tempo of speech and the combination hardness and softness in the sounds.
I love how so many languages sound and it makes me want to learn them for that reason alone, but I have a bad habit of telling myself "that's a stupid reason to learn a language." That's likely a product of our society needing every pursuit we have to be *practical*, plus I would never think that someone else learning a language because they love the sound of it is stupid!!
Anyhow, here's my short list of languages that I love the sound of and am compelled to lean:
- Japanese
- Russian
- Gaelic
- Chinese
- Hawaiian
Portuguese, it’s very loving and poetic sounding. I love the way the sounds roll, it sound almost like a hint of English, Spanish and French had the perfect baby with each other.
I'm obsessed with Spanish because it just sounds so friendly and happy and excited.
I also have a thing for Arabic but specifically Palestinian Arabic. It's really such a gentle melodic dialect, and not at all what you associate with Arabic, which is typically associated with the more guttural dialects like Egyptian and Levantine
This is a common thing even to arabic speakers. As an egyptian I can tell you we LOVE lebanese arabic the most. Very soft and pleasant to listen to. Same applies to palestinian arabic. Egyptian isn’t as appreciated simply because its abundance in media etc.
Things you love to hear! I’d say I love it too but I am biased hahahha. I feel it doesn’t get appreciated as much anymore cause the newer generations don’t consume as much egyptian media.
Wait really? I learned Arabic (and then stopped for a while coz life) in Jordan back in 2010-2011 and we were told that Masry was the dialect of the Arab world. That all media would stick with Masry because most people would understand it. My friend was studying in Morocco and I was in Jordan and we were learning very different dialects but we both could do Masry videos.
Was this just a very limited world view that I lived in? Or has it changed now? And mainstream Arab media doesn't stick with Masry?
From personal experience, the newer generations don’t consume as much egyptian media because of obvious reasons such as Tiktok, YT shorts etc. My parents’ friends understand us perfectly and can even mimic or speak to us back in egyptian because they grew up on egyptian television whereas the majority of people my age and younger (23 and below) don’t find it as easy to understand us anymore. A lot of the times I would say things and not be understood. This is common with people my age from the gulf AND north africa, not just a specific region.
I am absolutely in LOVE with French... not just the language, but the history and culture of France itself. I always enjoy French stuff, especially French classics (literature).
I also firstly loved French before (aside from English which was taught alongside our mother language) bc I love France, its history and everything really. 🥲 Even took some classes in university just for fun!
But now I am *in love* with Spanish. French has always been easier for me to learn, idk why, and Spanish gave me a hard time, especially with sentence structures 😭😭😭😭 I remember thinking I should probably drop it and stop pushing it, but thank God I persisted!!! Now I think I'm even more advanced in Spanish than French 🤣😅 Spain is also so beautiful and I am reeled in by their history and culture. We also have Spanish heritage in both sides of the family, and maaaaybe this is a strong connection to the ancestors too, so there's that 🥰
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I love all languages (I don’t know them all lol I just) love how language works and how we just talk and know what the other is saying (in the language/s we know). It’s just so amazing. I also love seeing the similarities in languages and how we describe things as human beings. I took French in high school and Italian my first two years of college. Then I took Russian my second two years and German as well my last year. I loved learning Russian. I don’t know what it is but it just clicked in my brain. The way there aren’t so many “filler words” I guess (at least in my more basic 2 years of learning) I think the alphabet being so different and in some ways a little more concrete(like with pronunciation and stuff?) just helped it stick when I was learning it. The cases can be pretty tricky but idk again it just really worked for me. To be fair I think learning two other languages also helped because learning a language helps u learn another (or at least that’s what I’ve heard and experienced :)) While I was originally supposed to go to St. Petersburg for study abroad, (we were given alternative options…) I ended up getting to go to Tbilisi for a few days and Batumi for a few weeks in Georgia and it was so amazing! Although I didn’t learn Georgian I still got to practice my Russian while I was there but I really hope I can go back to Georgia someday. The food, the people, my homestay family 🥹 I just loved everything about it! It was my first time being a foreigner and in a place where I didn’t know the main language and it was really scary but also the most amazing experience of my life so far! 🇬🇪 ❤️
I love English and Spanish.
English because it let's me connect with other people and it let's me access different type of entertainment medias, like books, games and movies. I also love Spanish cause it's tied to my country's history and It also opened a new world where I haven't explored before.
I love arabic. It sounds as alien as chinese or japanese but in a cooler way. It's incredible that people created sounds like that and I like how it's connected to a major religion.
I deeply love Turkish language. I love how it sounds. I love everything about it. I feel happy just by reading anything in Turkish or just by hearing anything in Turkish. I wish I could speak it fluently soon :)
If we ignore Uzbek…
It is French. For the following reasons:
- it is one of the official languages in my country
- the language sounds sweet to my ears
- I have a French last name
- I love the French politeness. It is the manners of my grandparents.
- I love French culture and art
- I love French food
- I love French graphic novels
I love it so much that I am in France right now for a month.
So yeah. I didn’t choose French it chose me.
Spanish. Everything in Spanish sounds good and beautiful. Like, someone could literally tell me the most vile shit and my brain would orgasm. The language just always sounds beautiful and sexy.
Arabic, Irish and Korean are my favourites! Honourable mention to Spanish. Arabic in particular is always so poetic and expressive. It gets a lot of hate in the Western world but if people looked beyond their prejudices they would realise how beautiful of a language it is.
I love all the North Caucasian languages.
I especially like Chechen because it's SO harsh to the Western ear, it's amazing. Completely the opposite of a "beautiful" language that's operatic like Italian... so many harsh consonants and "weird" vowels, and yet, it works, even musically. If you've heard Chechen sung by someone with an actually good voice (not Kadyrov propaganda pop), it's actually breathtaking.
Korean. I love how crisp it sounds. I watch a lot of Korean drama series and have made a digital list of words I learn. Eventually, I end up naturally memorizing them. Whenever I hear someone speaking Korean outside, I get so excited! I have to fight the urge to say, “annyonghaseo, ne eerum un ‘name’ ibnida”.
My mother tongue is Persian, which I think is also a beautiful language due to its poetic flow, but I like Korean more - probably because I’m so used to Persian, lol.
Latin. The free word order allows for so many different ways to construct a sentence, it makes you more flexible, which I believe has helped me write better in my own native language and in others I've been learning.
Not to mention that the amount of influence that it has on so many modern languages, either through borrowings or through direct inheritance, means that I can often recognize words I've never seen before and guess their meaning quite accurately if they resemble a Latin root.
spanish is absolutely the love of my life (figuratively obviously). hence why i am doing a phd in spanish linguistics now lol. for me the entire reason was the variety of cultures, my experiences with native speakers of the language, and the way i’m able to express myself comfortably. i love each and every sound and it never fails to fascinate me the amount of variety that there is
I’m French and really I cannot understand why people are obsessed with French, I think it’s overrated.
And to me, Italian is I’d say a language I LOVE, it’s absolutely lovely and elegant
All of them. Every single one. If I could learn them all, I would, but that's not really practical. I just love languages. Everyone is a new lens on the world, a new way to express things, and it's just so cool that humans have come up with so many of them.
I Love Chinese, its sounds are precise and musical and its so pretty to look at that their culture literally has an artform of just writing the characters. And a bonus, it is the hardest out of the Sino-Tibetan languages to learn for English speakers and so I can learn the other branches of the languages much easier
Any indigenous languages. They are so beautiful, and I'm so proud people are learning to speak their languages for their ancestors who were told they can't.
I just really love German. some people say it sounds angry and dull but I enjoy it. excuse my terrible explaining but it sounds rough and scratchy and I love that.
German doesn't get enough love.
German sounds amazing.
There is no other languages that uses consonants as well as German.
Polish??
I just started learning German and I’m having an absolute blast.
I enjoy and love reading german, I just don't have an ear for it like I do spanish or korean. Idk why.
Deutsch is schön
My university's intermediate level German course used some audio tapes that literally told us to sound angry when speaking German.
Anyone that thinks German sounds angry should listen to a German opera. I know opera isn't for everyone, hell, it's not for me :), but it really gives you a new perspective on the language.
It doesn't sound angry at all to me. It does sometimes sound inhuman though, like a robot trying to be extra polite. I do love the sound of its diphthongs though, they give me that Germanic vibe.
i agree! 😍
Lmao I think of the time when my dad thought German sounded very harsh until he visited Germany and then was like “wow, they speak way softer than thought”
My theory on why German “sounds angry” is that most people have only ever heard it in the context of movies and tv shows set during WWII or documentaries about the war. It’s like if you only heard English through Full Metal Jacket.
Yes I love German and also French and Hebrew
Czech is gorgeous. I studied German in high school and never understood why people thought it was an ugly language until our teacher showed us a dual language Czech / German film. I still thoroughly enjoyed learning German, but Czech was gorgeous.
Visited Prague twice this year and was surprised to hear it sounds way more melodic than Russian
Finally someone said the beer language
Japanese, German, and Italian. I love how they sound and look.
r/hmm
IT'S A COINCIDENCE. I also realized it a long time ago. Honestly, they're just great languages. I also study Korean, Indonesian and Thai, but they're just not as attractive.
Japanese sure sounds great. It’s a shame it’s so hard to find native partners to practice with out there or online.
Same with German. So hard to find a partner. I have found a lot of Italians to practice with though.
I found out that most Germans speak English nearly perfectly, which makes it hard to spot them on the whole. Latin language speakers are way easier to find since most of them prefer to stick to their native language (I’m generalising of course)
That's been my experience as well.
I listen to j-rock, so I usually practice in the comment sections of my favorite songs
Or find them IRL, I occasionally hear some of them in big cities. I mean even if Chinese people are way more prevalent, Japanese immigrants or tourists still come.
Go to Japan and speak with them
Italian is annoying
Italian is great. French is annoying and overrated.
Italian is annoying.
And overrated. Every third person says “Italian is the most beautiful lng”. I am sure its not because most of ppl say it 🤣
Python, just so beginner friendly and dynamic typing along with huge community
Bro gets it
Meaningful whitespace is a crime though. Hate it in Inform7, hate it in Python.
Maybe u need to try bython
That doesn't help you with maintaining existing code.
Then mate Java isn’t so bad
I do embedded mostly. That means a bunch of languages, whatever the previous project owner deemed cool. Including m4. Fuck m4.
Bro really said that
English. Although I really like Japanese and written Mandarin. But for some reason the only language I was able to stick with for years up until this day was only English.
Rare to see people say English since that's the language everyone knows.
True. But not here in Brazil tho, knowing English here is rare.
I wonder what english sounds like to Brazilians who don't know it.
Hmmm, it usually sounds very nice, smooth, not harsh sounding, but totally different from our native language. Specially because many of us are raised listening to English songs. So it sound familiar, yet distant from our native language .
Yeah, it's difficult getting a description of english since most people find it familiar and learn it growing up. My Lithuanian coworker said we sound very nasal and soft.
I've heard kids saying before learning English they found it to be slow and elegant sounding.
You can know and love a language at the same time. For me, I just love how creative English idiomatic expressions can be.
Chinese and Japanese have some of the most beautiful scripts imo, their calligraphy are majestic. In terms of my favorite sounding language I would have to go with Xhosa because it's the most unique sounding language with their clicks.
That's the correct way to describe their writing system. It's just majestic
Japanese and Chinese are so much easier for me to read personally. It’s the ultimate contraction of meaning in single characters.
Really? That's an unpopular opinion. Most find Chinese Characters to be super hard.
What I meant is that it’s easier to express something since grammar is simpler most words only include character pairs, which shorten the length of sentences.
Belarusian! I dunno, I just think it's really cool and it's sad that there's not many resources for learning it.
Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Võro, Udmurt, Mari, Hungarian), Belarusian (dear BY bros preserve it pls), Latvian.
For me, it has always been Italian and it still is
I started watching some Thai series and now I'm in love with the language! Can't see myself ever learning it as it seems exceptionally hard, though I have picked up some words and phrases. I just really like the way it sounds.
Was it Girl from Nowhere??
Farsi, because it's the person's I'm in love with native language. I love listening to him when he speaks it 🥰
I would love to learn russian
Russian would like to learn you
sadly there aren’t any good sources
You don't think so? I've bookmarked quite a few that look promising.
that would be amazing but it’s okay i found a few sources now , thanks anyways
I enjoy germanic languages a lot, Studying Norwegian at uni, finding my way pretty decently (hopefully 😅) with Swedish and Danish, And have recently been getting into learning German😊 Would deffinetly love to Expand onto Dutch and Icelandic some day too. Although they all have something unique to them i just love the scratch and softness that somehow perpetually flows in them, Outside of it i really like Finnish and Russian
Good evening, younger me
God kveld til deg også:) Small world😁
Persian has fascinated me for a long time: I unironically feel that if someone wanted to learn "a new language" and didn't know which one I would recommend Persian if you're picking out of a black hat: * Sounds beautiful and there aren't many sounds too alien to English speakers. * Easy grammar, the *worst* part is the verbs but even that's not so bad. No grammatical gender and other than just kind of having to blindly memorize a separate past/present stem for verbs, verb conjugation is super regular. * Calligraphy and script are beautiful. * Colorful expressions and poetry: I love how deeply metaphor is baked into even common expressions in the language. Turkish is also a very fun one for me. Going into it all I really knew was that it was unrelated to Indo-European languages and had vowel harmony, and I was in for a treat. I love the sound of it, especially in music. It's such a delight to speak and to read stories in. One that I want to learn more of is Tagalog. The grammar and syntax seem really interesting and the Philippines is a country I would love to learn more about. I also like the sound of Yoruba a lot and would also love to learn more about Nigeria and West Africa generally. Closer to home for me, I really like the sound of Tamil, especially in music. There's a fun way it rolls around in your mouth when you say phrases in it, and I like that there's a lot of literature in Tamil and the way that a lot of effort has been put into promoting the language.
Maybe I'm just weird but I would say German. I feel German language very lovely, romantic but also witty
Not even joking, Uzbek. To me Uzbek is like the bridge of Asian languages. Uzbek has borrowed a little bit of something for every major Language in Asia, as a native Hindi/Urdu speaker i see so much of my language in Uzbek, so many Farsi words and Arabic words that we borrowed they borrowed as well, seeing Russian words sprinkled throughout the language along with all the native Turkic words. For me Turkish grammar just makes sense, despite lacking vowel Harmony Uzbek still sounds really beautiful especially Uzbek poetry. I personally find Farsi to be the most beautiful language and since Uzbek uses a lot of Farsi words it's like a Turkic language i really enjoy. Idk how to explain it, the first language i learned was Turkish, my native language at home is Hindi and Urdu. When i learn Uzbek it's like i feel at home. 30% of the time if i don't know a word in Uzbek it's probably the word from Urdu. The other 30% of the time it's probably the word from Turkish. 30% of the time it's a word i don't know. Despite that it feels so familiar to me. feels so familiar and foreign
Are your parents from India?
Yes, I'm born in the States.
German 🇩🇪❤️ I've tried a few different languages but none of them clicked like German did. I absolutely love it and I dream of someday visiting and becoming fluent. French 🥖 is also beautiful and I love learning about French history and I love French food 🇨🇵 Russian 🇷🇺. I really got into Russian because of the Cold War. I also love the sound of the language. And I really would love to someday see Moscow (if the war ever ends and everyone can just be friends).
Swedish: it just sounds too good Valencian: i find it very interesting cause of the similarities to the languages that I speak (Italian, Spanish and Sardinian) Mandarin chinese and Cantonese: incredible writing system and portals to different cultures from mine Basque: the idea that basque is still spoken is crazy. It's just so interesting
Swedish sounds awesome until you learn it. It's indescribable
Haha you mean that after learning it you started liking it less? Maybe it's just getting used to it and getting out of the honeymoon phase?
Yeah, it's super-hard to describe. Hearing people speak it just doesn't hit the ear the same way it did before. I guess perhaps one of the reasons it sounded neat has to do with (of course what you said, but also) the factor of some languages sounding neat just because you don't understand them.. it's about half of the reason for me having an interest in languages like Finnish and Welsh
for me, Italian is just hot
Polish. Doesn’t get nearly enough love for how cool it sounds and also looks when written.
Dutch. Honestly it just sounds amazing. Sure the grammar is all over the place, has the de/het nouns and verbs that split in two but it was and is still a fun language to learn even if I am likely never to use it
I've had a crush on Mandarin Chinese for the past 7 years now! It's a deeply poetic language, rich with centuries of historical and cultural idioms. It's concise, easy to understand, and well constructed. Additionally, the way it sounds when it's spoken, in my opinion, is akin to a dream. It's been a beautiful language to learn!
Icelandic Ancient language and sounds very satisfying, also uses Th- or -th which I think is unique to that and English? (E.g thorn, think, thump or with, pith, sith)
Arabic, Greek and some varieties of Spanish, among others, also have it.
Kazakh. It's very harmonious with both consonantal and vowel harmony. I also really adore Turkish but that's probably just bias. Japanese is also an extremely simple language (besides writing) and people don't realise it because of their biases. It's not hard in the sense that it has a lot of rules it's just very different.
Personally i prefer Uzbek. The farsi words really make it sound more poetic to me.
Which words are Farsi in Uzbek? I also think the sound of Uzbek is awesome. People from Uzbekistan have the strangest names, both first and last names. They're absolutely fascinating.
İ mean a sizable portion of all words in Uzbek are persian.
The sound is what originally drew me to Japanese. But what I especially love now is the kanji. It kind of makes it feel like a puzzle. Put some general meanings together, what word do you get?
That's part of the reason I'd also say Japanese. Kanji is like a symbolic language in itself, each symbol has other minisymbols that build it. But then you have hiragana and katakana which are extra clues. It's quite amazing. I also love how the grammar is mostly systematic and logical. There are very few things left to nuance or interpretation. Of course, there will be idioms and cultural expressions, which are really important to learn. But the Japanese culture in general is all about efficiency, so once you know the rules, it is like unlocking a code.
Assamese, Bangla, Malayalam, Vietnamese, Flemish and Nynorsk
I, unironically, like Uzbek and all other Turkic languages. I love the grammar, the logic behind them, and I find the cultures across them all super interesting.
Japanese. I’ve always had an interest in language learning, but for most languages I would usually stop doing my lessons after a month. With Japanese though, I’ve been learning for months without getting lazy a single day! The language is coming really easily to me and I’ve already been able to use it to communicate with people
My high school offered only 3 language courses: Latin, Spanish, French. I couldn't take them all, and still take the other required courses. I took Latin and Spanish, because I was SURE that I would learn French, one way or another. I guess I liked French. I have had a fascination with Japan my whole adult life. I don't know exactly when or how that started. It wasn't specifically about the language, but it was enough to interest me in the language. I studied Japanese a bit in the 1980s. But studying alone, from a book, before the internet or mobile phones or cheap international calls...I didn't get very far.
Of the languages I know Latin. I love the usage of both prepositions and cases. Of the languages I don't know Spanish Spanish. Love the fast tempo of speech and the combination hardness and softness in the sounds.
I love how so many languages sound and it makes me want to learn them for that reason alone, but I have a bad habit of telling myself "that's a stupid reason to learn a language." That's likely a product of our society needing every pursuit we have to be *practical*, plus I would never think that someone else learning a language because they love the sound of it is stupid!! Anyhow, here's my short list of languages that I love the sound of and am compelled to lean: - Japanese - Russian - Gaelic - Chinese - Hawaiian
I really like Finnish, i love the way it sounds when it is spoken, even though it sounds like gibberish.
This. It's beautiful, chaotic gibberish, and I love it.
Armenian 🥹
Portuguese, it’s very loving and poetic sounding. I love the way the sounds roll, it sound almost like a hint of English, Spanish and French had the perfect baby with each other.
This is my answer too 😍
I'm obsessed with Spanish because it just sounds so friendly and happy and excited. I also have a thing for Arabic but specifically Palestinian Arabic. It's really such a gentle melodic dialect, and not at all what you associate with Arabic, which is typically associated with the more guttural dialects like Egyptian and Levantine
This is a common thing even to arabic speakers. As an egyptian I can tell you we LOVE lebanese arabic the most. Very soft and pleasant to listen to. Same applies to palestinian arabic. Egyptian isn’t as appreciated simply because its abundance in media etc.
For what it's worth, I love Egyptian Arabic (as a Jordanian) :)
Things you love to hear! I’d say I love it too but I am biased hahahha. I feel it doesn’t get appreciated as much anymore cause the newer generations don’t consume as much egyptian media.
Wait really? I learned Arabic (and then stopped for a while coz life) in Jordan back in 2010-2011 and we were told that Masry was the dialect of the Arab world. That all media would stick with Masry because most people would understand it. My friend was studying in Morocco and I was in Jordan and we were learning very different dialects but we both could do Masry videos. Was this just a very limited world view that I lived in? Or has it changed now? And mainstream Arab media doesn't stick with Masry?
From personal experience, the newer generations don’t consume as much egyptian media because of obvious reasons such as Tiktok, YT shorts etc. My parents’ friends understand us perfectly and can even mimic or speak to us back in egyptian because they grew up on egyptian television whereas the majority of people my age and younger (23 and below) don’t find it as easy to understand us anymore. A lot of the times I would say things and not be understood. This is common with people my age from the gulf AND north africa, not just a specific region.
I am absolutely in LOVE with French... not just the language, but the history and culture of France itself. I always enjoy French stuff, especially French classics (literature).
I also firstly loved French before (aside from English which was taught alongside our mother language) bc I love France, its history and everything really. 🥲 Even took some classes in university just for fun! But now I am *in love* with Spanish. French has always been easier for me to learn, idk why, and Spanish gave me a hard time, especially with sentence structures 😭😭😭😭 I remember thinking I should probably drop it and stop pushing it, but thank God I persisted!!! Now I think I'm even more advanced in Spanish than French 🤣😅 Spain is also so beautiful and I am reeled in by their history and culture. We also have Spanish heritage in both sides of the family, and maaaaybe this is a strong connection to the ancestors too, so there's that 🥰 🇪🇸❤️
Sanskrit - DEVNAGARI (Mother of all Languages)
Pretty cool tbh⚡
संस्कृतं सर्वभाषाणां माता नास्ति 😒
I love all languages (I don’t know them all lol I just) love how language works and how we just talk and know what the other is saying (in the language/s we know). It’s just so amazing. I also love seeing the similarities in languages and how we describe things as human beings. I took French in high school and Italian my first two years of college. Then I took Russian my second two years and German as well my last year. I loved learning Russian. I don’t know what it is but it just clicked in my brain. The way there aren’t so many “filler words” I guess (at least in my more basic 2 years of learning) I think the alphabet being so different and in some ways a little more concrete(like with pronunciation and stuff?) just helped it stick when I was learning it. The cases can be pretty tricky but idk again it just really worked for me. To be fair I think learning two other languages also helped because learning a language helps u learn another (or at least that’s what I’ve heard and experienced :)) While I was originally supposed to go to St. Petersburg for study abroad, (we were given alternative options…) I ended up getting to go to Tbilisi for a few days and Batumi for a few weeks in Georgia and it was so amazing! Although I didn’t learn Georgian I still got to practice my Russian while I was there but I really hope I can go back to Georgia someday. The food, the people, my homestay family 🥹 I just loved everything about it! It was my first time being a foreigner and in a place where I didn’t know the main language and it was really scary but also the most amazing experience of my life so far! 🇬🇪 ❤️
I love English and Spanish. English because it let's me connect with other people and it let's me access different type of entertainment medias, like books, games and movies. I also love Spanish cause it's tied to my country's history and It also opened a new world where I haven't explored before.
I love arabic. It sounds as alien as chinese or japanese but in a cooler way. It's incredible that people created sounds like that and I like how it's connected to a major religion.
I deeply love Turkish language. I love how it sounds. I love everything about it. I feel happy just by reading anything in Turkish or just by hearing anything in Turkish. I wish I could speak it fluently soon :)
Your post but Finnish instead of French
If we ignore Uzbek… It is French. For the following reasons: - it is one of the official languages in my country - the language sounds sweet to my ears - I have a French last name - I love the French politeness. It is the manners of my grandparents. - I love French culture and art - I love French food - I love French graphic novels I love it so much that I am in France right now for a month. So yeah. I didn’t choose French it chose me.
Spanish. Everything in Spanish sounds good and beautiful. Like, someone could literally tell me the most vile shit and my brain would orgasm. The language just always sounds beautiful and sexy.
Arabic have my heart ♥️
Arabic, Irish and Korean are my favourites! Honourable mention to Spanish. Arabic in particular is always so poetic and expressive. It gets a lot of hate in the Western world but if people looked beyond their prejudices they would realise how beautiful of a language it is.
Malayalam, I adore everything about it, from the phonology, to the writing system, and sound.
dutch, maybe? not sure. greek a bit russian..hard to say
Chechen. Because nobody else likes Chechen.
Fellow Chechen admirer. Also a fan of Lezgian.
I love all the North Caucasian languages. I especially like Chechen because it's SO harsh to the Western ear, it's amazing. Completely the opposite of a "beautiful" language that's operatic like Italian... so many harsh consonants and "weird" vowels, and yet, it works, even musically. If you've heard Chechen sung by someone with an actually good voice (not Kadyrov propaganda pop), it's actually breathtaking.
Brazilian Portuguese just sounds fun and it makes everything more joyful imo I also love the sound of Swedish 💫
Twi,Yoruba,Lingala
Oh! As well as Mende and Temne language. I admire African languages because they’re pretty advanced and poetic. It’s sweet!!!😍
Classical Arabic, Old Lithuanian, Turkish and Finnic languages
Korean. I love how crisp it sounds. I watch a lot of Korean drama series and have made a digital list of words I learn. Eventually, I end up naturally memorizing them. Whenever I hear someone speaking Korean outside, I get so excited! I have to fight the urge to say, “annyonghaseo, ne eerum un ‘name’ ibnida”. My mother tongue is Persian, which I think is also a beautiful language due to its poetic flow, but I like Korean more - probably because I’m so used to Persian, lol.
Taiwanese Hokkien, to me it sounds like the most beautiful language.
All of them. I think language in and of itself is so fascinating, and I genuinely enjoy learning how languages work.
Latin, just for the fun of it. I disliked seeing Latin quotes or mottos on things and not knowing what it meant.
Latin. The free word order allows for so many different ways to construct a sentence, it makes you more flexible, which I believe has helped me write better in my own native language and in others I've been learning. Not to mention that the amount of influence that it has on so many modern languages, either through borrowings or through direct inheritance, means that I can often recognize words I've never seen before and guess their meaning quite accurately if they resemble a Latin root.
spanish is absolutely the love of my life (figuratively obviously). hence why i am doing a phd in spanish linguistics now lol. for me the entire reason was the variety of cultures, my experiences with native speakers of the language, and the way i’m able to express myself comfortably. i love each and every sound and it never fails to fascinate me the amount of variety that there is
I find Swedish the most pleasant language to listen to
I’m French and really I cannot understand why people are obsessed with French, I think it’s overrated. And to me, Italian is I’d say a language I LOVE, it’s absolutely lovely and elegant
my native language is Armenian, it's hard to learn, but is soooo beautiful
Urdu it’s such a poetic language
Indonesian,cuz it's sounds really funny.
All of them. Every single one. If I could learn them all, I would, but that's not really practical. I just love languages. Everyone is a new lens on the world, a new way to express things, and it's just so cool that humans have come up with so many of them.
Spanish 🥰 And Tagalog, the first language I learned. 🥰
Japanese sounds beautiful and melodic to my ear, but mostly with a masculine style, not as into the cute variants but I do like that with Korean
French first love; then, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish from Spain.
I Love Chinese, its sounds are precise and musical and its so pretty to look at that their culture literally has an artform of just writing the characters. And a bonus, it is the hardest out of the Sino-Tibetan languages to learn for English speakers and so I can learn the other branches of the languages much easier
Hungarian. It’s really logical and the words fit together nicely. It’s ugly and pretty at the same time. I like the level of aglutination
For me it’s Hebrew. I love the sounds of the alphabet and every time I hear it gives me motivation to keep learning,
For me, I love the sound of Spanish, especially Castillian Spanish as it sounds so fast and keen.
Any indigenous languages. They are so beautiful, and I'm so proud people are learning to speak their languages for their ancestors who were told they can't.