What's your favorite languages?

[A-lister]

Well, there was some talk about the existing of this thread in some other thread on this forum, but I couldn't find the original one so I start a new one.

This thread should not be mixed with the other language thread about what languages you know or would like to learn, this is simply a subjective matter where you can list your favorite languages (it's about how they sound to you, not whether you actually can speak and/-or want to learn them).

 

[SRBIJA]

My favourite language is Hungarian. I laso think that Serbian is beautiful.

 

[A-lister]

So here's mine:

Ukrainian
Russian

^ I like Slavic languages in general, but those two are my favs amongst them.

Hebrew
German

 

[r3gg13]

I really like how Slavic languages sound in general.

My favorites is/are Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin/Bosnian

Of course, how can I forget French! French just sounds so graceful IMO. Even when my old neighbor was mad at how much noise me and my flatmates were making every Friday night, she still sounded graceful

 

[A-lister]

I really like how Slavic languages sound in general.

My favorites is/are Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin/Bosnian

Of course, how can I forget French! French just sounds so graceful IMO. Even when my old neighbor was mad at how much noise me and my flatmates were making every Friday night, she still sounded graceful

So you like South Slavic (Serbo-Croatian) in particular then? Yeah those are nice aswell, they have a different "melody" than other Slavic languages though, they're "slower".

I guess I'm one of the few that aren't really into French. I like it more as a singing language than spoken, but that's the case of most languages I guess.

 

[Venage]

I like Italian, Japanese and Swedish. Different styles, but each special it its own way. French is not my cup of tea, but especially for males I think it's awful. Sounds way too feminine.

 

[seb89]

My favorite language would be French of course. I also liked Spanish. Dedicated my life to these languages 3

As for the language I don't speak, I like the sound of Hebrew, Greek, Swedish and Danish.

Dutch can be beautiful too, depends on the region .

 

[A-lister]

Dutch can be beautiful too, depends on the region .

Hmm...

Well, I actually sorta like the sound of Flemish Dutch... I dunno if it's just in my mind but they do sound a bit different? Flemish sounds less harsh in my ears...

 

[r3gg13]

So you like South Slavic (Serbo-Croatian) in particular then? Yeah those are nice aswell, they have a different "melody" than other Slavic languages though, they're "slower".

I guess I'm one of the few that aren't really into French. I like it more as a singing language than spoken, but that's the case of most languages I guess.

Yeah, I do like South Slavic in particular. I like in particular, the intonation, how it rises and falls and how melodic it is. East Slavic languages like Russian and Ukrainian are heavily ionized in linguistic terms, it has a lot of ios which I don't find particularly pleasing.

 

[A-lister]

Yeah, I do like South Slavic in particular. I like in particular, the intonation, how it rises and falls and how melodic it is. East Slavic languages like Russian and Ukrainian are heavily ionized in linguistic terms, it has a lot of ios which I don't find particularly pleasing.

What's this "ionize" thing? Not sure what you refer to, but I guess I was talking about the same thing (with how the South Slavic one sounds "slower", their melody is more "Germanic" in a weird since... Bulgarian sounds a bit in between South Slavic and East Slavic though).

 

[r3gg13]

What's this "ionize" thing? Not sure what you refer to, but I guess I was talking about the same thing (with how the South Slavic one sounds "slower", their melody is more "Germanic" in a weird since... Bulgarian sounds a bit in between South Slavic and East Slavic though).

Oops, I meant to say Iotacized, which means it has a lot of sounds with iota /j/ infused in it like Ю for example. I really like how slow the melody is. Now that you have mentioned it, I now see the resemblance between the Germanic intonation and the South Slavic intonation.

 

[CC92]

Judging by the sound only:

1. Russian
2. Estonian
3. German

Most overrated ones: Spanish, Italian

 

[Gera11]

Norwegian, Russian and Spanish.

 

[Celia]

English (mostly with a British accent ), French, German, Italian and pretty much all Slavic languages
Finnish and Estonian sound cool too!

 

[Nicholas123]

French!

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

English


No really, it is one of my favourite languages English spoken with a West Country (South West England), South Welsh, Geordie (Newcastle), Southern Irish or Australian accent are the best imo. But otherwise, the Scandinavian languages are my favourites to hear; Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic. Beautiful languages Welsh and Irish (Ive never heard any of the other Celtic languages) are also very nice, and Im quite used to them living in Wales half the year and with my grandmother being an Irish speaker. German is great - it is not a 'romantic' language, but I like its sound very much!

I find the traditionally popular languages - notably French and Italian - to be nice but overrated.

Of course being monolingual I can only judge foreign languages on how they sound, not how I find them to speak, etc

 

[nekoisneko]

My Rank

Germany

Japanese

Estonian, Finnish

Icelandic

Bahasa Indonesia

 

[nofuxCZ]

My favourite is Slovak, but I guess I'm biased here. To me it sounds like more soft and sexy Czech

From other languages I really love the sound of Estonian and Finnish.

 

[Verjamem]

Polish (ofc )
All ex-Yu languages (Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bosnian, Macedonian, Montenegrin)
English
Russian
Hebrew

 

[Yamarus]

In general I love all the Germanic languages: German, Dutch and Afrikaans, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic.

In the Latin languages I quite like Portuguese, whereas Spanish and Italian don't appeal to me very much. Since I'm a native French speaker I also love French of course.

Other languages I love include Turkish and Estonian.

I'm not very fond of dialects or regional variants however. Although they can be interesting and fun to learn about, standard versions usually sound much better, especially for German and Dutch.