What do you think is the prettiest sounding language (only real languages included: no Klingon or enything like that )? I have no opinions on this but I'd really like to hear some!

Klingon is most certainly a real language. More people speak Klingon than Navajo.

After I posted this, I did have a suspicion that someone would say something like that!

GERMAN!!!!

phhht! There are very few songs or poems that sound good in german. Well, some of the drinking songs are kinda fun. Italian is great for opera and love songs, gaelic for poetry, French or Italian if you just want to get your girl friend thinking you are a romantic type.

Arabic. A beautiful language for poetry, and it sounds wonderful.

Gaelic, Chinese or Vietnamese. Any of them is softer and more melodic than gutteral German or nasal French.

It depends on what you want to say.

Cymraeg (Welsh to you unwashed foreigners ) is the best for lyric poetry and song, but it tends to sound like a throat-clearing convention in ordinary conversation.

Ou peut-etre Francais? Pour les mots petits et douces d'amour, naturellement.

But for workaday clarity (and deliberate obfustication if required), English may not be the prettiest, but it's the most precise and the easiest to be creative in - there are a gazillion ways to say the same thing. (German, being efficient, has one very precise way to say everything, so everyone will understand exactly what you mean. Except "fluffy", which they have not word for.)

I've always liked the sound of Italian, though the Scandanavian languages (well, except Finnish, which just sounds bizarre) are all pretty melodic as well.

I would go with Italian. French is also up there. Eastern European languages do sound "gutteral" to me, especially German. I must admit I have not heard much Arabic or eastern Asian languages...

I love the sound of Italian (accept when I speak it). It's the most beautiful of all the languages I've heard.

Pig-Latin. I just love how everything rhymes. :snort:

OK seriously, French. You could insult me in French and I would melt.

I'd just love to have a beautiful blond frauline speak mean too me... * sigh*

Italian, I'm kinda partial to it. And Freedom [French]. Althose nasal words are kinda cool.

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99 Luftballoons sounds very good in German, much better than the English version, 99 Red Balloons.

I'd have to say Spanish, but not Cathtilian Thspanith and not the machine gun speed Cuban Spanish.

I think that Arabic and Farsi are beautiful.

I'm gonna have to go with Latin. I know its a dead language, but I can't think of any other that comes close to it.

French with an English accent

Native French speakers go too fast, so everything gets munged together.

Then Spanish, also spoken more slowly than native speakers.

Since Italian is close, that too--and all these tongues are based on Latin.

It is interesting to listen without the distraction of understanding to hear the pure music of a language.

For my part, I think Spanish is the most beautiful language, especially when it is spoken by Latin Americans.

I'm also fond of the way Japanese people speak in Samurai films.



French just sounds like some one blowing bubbles in the bath water to me...

Village Malay is very beautiful.

A note to Moif. The Danish are great people but you have one odd sounding language. It comes out sounding garbled and fractured. Maybe I just haven't heard the right speakers.

Might I say, depends on whos speaking it and at what time.and place, hmmn

Elizabeth Hurley played a flight attendant/terrorist in the movie Passenger 57, whatever accent she was trying to mimic in that movie made me have to watch that movie twice just to know what happened while she was tal .

russian is a great sounding langauge, I think it is very pretty sounding. (kind of sounds slightly like french) I also like japanese (it sounds poetic)

Im always surprised when people think that French is a pretty sounding language, I think it sounds weird, the R sound they make ruins the whole thing! But they do have a wide range of adjectives that are cool. There are quite a few languages I like the sound of, but I wouldnt say they are "pretty", I think whatever language they speak in India is maybe the most melodic (Isnt it Hindi? Not counting local dialects) thing Ive heard. And Swedish/Norwegian, since they are practically the same language anyway (and everytime I ask someone "are you Swedish?" it turns out they're from Norway, or vice versa)

I think Portugeuse from Brazil is maybe one of the coolest sounding languages.