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[Stargazer]

German and Danish people sound like they have something stuck down their throat when they speak, haha. It just doesn't sound very nice. French can sound quite ugly too. Some of it can be quite beautiful, but a lot of it sounds very rough. I think a lot of it has to do with the way these languages pronounce the letter 'R'. It's just a really ugly sound to my ears.

I have a Stockholm accent when I speak Swedish. Like this Swedish comedian:

I found clips of a few other accents within Sweden:

Dalmål

Östgötska

Norrländska (exaggerated)

Göteborgska

 

[PeterLPZ]

German and Danish people sound like they have something stuck down their throat when they speak

 

[Stargazer]

It's true, haha! I feel like saying "just swallow the porridge and speak clearly!" when I hear you guys.

 

[PeterLPZ]

German is such a wonderful smooth language

The problem for foreign people is, that we have many dialects and so many people can´t understand it clearly.

 

[Israeliboy]

As for Hebrew .

I like it very much in this song:

And some Hebrew from the Diva in a comedy:

 

[Stargazer]

I really like Hebrew. I'm always singing along to Israeli ESC entries like "Kan", "Amen" and "Derech Ha' Melech" because I know all the words.

 

[Israeliboy]

I really like Hebrew. I'm always singing along to Israeli ESC entries like "Kan", "Amen" and "Derech Ha' Melech" because I know all the words.

Great entries well, this song is from our Kdam in 1978, I really adore it btw, maybe you'll like it:

 

[nikolay_BG]

German and Danish people sound like they have something stuck down their throat when they speak, haha.

German and danish are sexy

 

[PeterLPZ]

German and danish are sexy

 

[sannerz]

I love German. Such an aggressive language, so hot.

 

[sannerz]

This is how everyone in America speaks:

 

[AlekS]

Russian and Serbian sound very similar (obviously), Bulgarian is not so similar though.

Ukrainian is closer to French, imo, very soft. Softened version of pagan, Polish and ancient Bulgarian.
"Wesetern" dialect sometimes can't be understood by other Ukrainians Western and Southern/Central Ukrainian peeps (including me) have their accents.

 

[doctormalisimo]

I've always wondered what non-native speakers think English sounds like...

 

[Asiye]

I've always wondered what non-native speakers think English sounds like...

I love English I commented about it in previous page also. I wonder what native English speakers think about non-native speakers' English actually Who speaks it worst? I won't be surprised if you say Turks

 

[Grinch]

German : I disliked this language. Then I met Lacrimosa! Alleine Zu Zweit & Tilo's voice could convince any German-hater I guess. The only thing is, while speaking German you don't sound very romantic but for a speech in front of masses, it's very effective!

French : The most overrated language ever? "Sexy, classy, poetic..." really? I've never understand the big fuzz about French. To me it's like typing random letters on computer screen and pronouncing them.

Spanish : Ah, my fave. Any emotion can be expressed with that language. Suits great with the songs.

Finnish/Estonian : Can be rough, can be cute. Depends who's speaking.

Danish/Swedish/Norwegian : Rough. Suits great with heavy metal.

Icelandic : Weird but nice.

Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian : Sound sad. That's one of the reasons why balkan ballads are very powerful imo.

Arabic : Funny and rough. Alphabet looks nice though.

Hebrew : Sounds like %70 Arabic, %30 French. I don't like any of them, so... Alphabet looks nice.

Russian : Anger!

Greek : So nice, poetic.

English : Not good, not bad, just ok. Easy to learn easy to speak. Best option for being international language.

Some Accents :

British : It's like trying to speak while you're eating. I only understand the half of what people saying so I don't like

Irish : Sounds like a child speaking, kinda cute. Hard to understand!

Scottish : Cool. More understandable than than Irish at least.

Southern American : Sooo cute, I love it!

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I love English I commented about it in previous page also. I wonder what native English speakers think about non-native speakers' English actually Who speaks it worst? I won't be surprised if you say Turks

Non-native speakers, who speaks it worse? Im not sure, it kinda depends on how well each individual can speak . Certainly the best English speakers are Scandinavians, by a long way, in fact I think often they can speak English better than us Brits! The Germanic-language nations are the best in general, but I suppose that's to be expected. In Europe, the worst I would say south-eastern Europe, I often find it impossible to tell what is being said. However that is a generalisation of course, there are many who can speak it very well from that region also . Also I think southern Europeans like Spaniards and Italians struggle with some of the pronunciation, but I dont tend to struggle with understanding them - one of my seminar tutor's is an Italian student for example, he struggles with some words (he cant say my name properly - I always thought Adam was an easy name! ) but I do still always know what he's on about. As for Turks, I have never spoken to a Turkish person so I wouldnt know, but I dont think you're the worst from what I know .
As for native speakers, I think the worst accents are Irish (not Northern Irish though ) and Scottish. I have to say though, I do like all of the rest of our accents, Welsh is still my favourite though .

 

[aletem]

I've always wondered what non-native speakers think English sounds like...

It sounds nice. I've been used to it too much, so I can't say much now. I think the hardest thing is trying to speak as a Native English speaker.

 

[aletem]

I've heard that Croatian is pretty hard to learn for non-native speakers hmmm

Croatian and Serbian grammar is hard, and I know I have (some) trouble with it.

 

[r3gg13]

I've always wondered what non-native speakers think English sounds like...

I'm a non-native speaker of English, I learned it when I was 6 or 7 from my parents and at school. At first I thought that English sounds were super difficult to make! But it sounded very nice to me. Don't even get me started with the alphabet, up to that age, I only knew how to read katakana, hiragana and some kanji letters in Japanese, but I knew how to speak Tagalog but not write/read it (it's also in Latin alphabet). I used to call the Latin alphabet, "worms" because they looked like worms to me But as time passed and as I moved to USA, I started to lose my foreign accent and I started to become better at it. Now, I don't think that I have a foreign sounding accent at all.

 

[seb89]

I like English too, certainly British English (Manchester, Liverpool dialect are the best imo ). I'm not so a fan of American English, it sounds so fake to me . I like Australian & Indian/Pakistani who speak English (so cute ) as well. Irish English is nice, but I don't understand much of it. We have an Irish professor and I don't really understand him so that's gonna be a problem in january for my exam lol.

But after all, French is the most sexiest and beautiful language ever!

What I would really like to know... If you learn german... how do you learn the plural? Because I think there's no rule for it...

There are some rules, but it's not so difficult, it goes quite automatically for me. It's maybe because I speak the Limburgish dialect. Also for the genus, if I don't know it, I just use the genus we use in Limburgish, which is almost the same. The genus we use in Dutch is also most of the time the same. What I found difficult about German is the Wortschatz . I tend to speak German with Dutch words .