No.584
What's the ugliest language and why is it mandarin?
No.585
German sounds like if people who speak it have a pennis stuck in their throats.
>>584Chinese souns ugly to the untrained ears but sounds beautiful once you studied it for a while and you start apreciating how subtle it is.
No.586
Polish looks like someone trying to compose a message by banging his head on the keyboard.
No.587
Spanish sounds like poverty.
No.592
>>586>compose a message by banging his head on the keyboardHaha 100% agree. I have no idea how it sounds though.
No.598
>>592Even other Slavs say that it's like snakes hissing.
No.611
>>587More like all romance languages sound like poverty.
No.640
>>584That's only for northern accents.
No.641
German sounds thhe worst orally because, like
>>585 said, they sound like they're choking on enormous black dicks.
Polish is… just no
No.675
>>598That description actually makes me kind of want to learn it.
No.681
judging by the sound I would definitely say Romance languages - they just have way too many vowels (but I love the vocabulary - Latin-derived words are so universal)
the Germanic (especially Scandinavian) languages sound the best to me
I also dislike Japanese for the exact same reason (I don't know, if it isn't even worse: I haven't heard much Japanese and that might be the only reason why it doesn't top my list) - nearly all syllables are open and that just sounds tribal (no offence to the Japanese)
>>598Satan spoke Polish in the garden of Eden
>>586you realise it's this switched-letters thing, right? I know Polish writing is still weird-looking (I personally think that the Cyrillic alphabet fits Slavic languages better), but it isn't representative
pic rel is the same thing in English
No.779
For the first time I heard Greek today. There were a group of 4 men at a table eating and discussing some topic. I was a few tables away and was trying to distinguish from their tone of the words used to maybe give me an idea of the region they could be from.
Initially, I thought middle eastern or close to that area. I should have went up to them and asked but I pussied out and ask the manager at the cashier who told me. It sounded pretty cool.
No.780
I live in north Maine and holy fuck it's all about French
the stereotypical French accent is pronunciated especially by the older citizens
No.836
>>586>polish>a slavic languageHOW? This isn't anything like Russian or Serbian.
No.837
>>836English is nothing like German too.
Try comparing Polish to Czech or Slovak (West Slavic languages) if you can't spot the obvious similarities to Russian or Serbian (East and South, respectively).
No.859
>>587
This claim is now supported by science.
>Some language skills could be more rewarding than others. If you are able to speak German, Americans could earn $128,000 extra throughout their career, according to MIT scientist Albert Saiz. At least financially, German is worth twice as much as French and nearly three times as much as Spanish, for instance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/?tid=pm_pop_b
No.861
>>836
Try now:
Здогне з нањвоымши банядмай пежпоравдзомыни на бытырийскх увениретасытх не ма зеначня койнолещ лтиер пжы зпясе денгао соўва. Нвайжаншыейм ест, абы приешва и отацня
No.863
>>859
So English has been scientifically proven to be the entry-level language for the unwashed masses? I knew it.
No.868
>>585
I think you confuse German with Danish.
No.1463
No.1466
Thai. I hate how it sounds like shit and the script looks like shit.
No.1471
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>>1466
It's not just the look.
No.1472
>>836
That's because it has nasal vowels which no other Slavic language has anymore other than some Bulgarian dialects. Belorussian is kinda like in between Polish and Russian if you wanna check it out. There's also a couple of spergs who devised a Polish Cyrillic alphabet too.
No.1481
In my opinion it's a tie between cheng and kebab languages. Chinese sounds like shit because it sounds like shit and kebab sounds like shit because of the ridiculous amount of that "h"-like sound.
What's the cutest language though?
For me it's a tie between Japanese, because of the onomatopoeias, and Russian.
>>1466
>Thai
>shit
I've never heard it, but the script is fucking awesome. I can't even read that shit, but it looks like elven runes. How fucking awesome is that?
No.1482
>>1481
Which "kebab language" you fucking monkey
No.1483
>>1482
All of the them obviously, Mehmet.
No.1484
>>1483
>German flag calling me Mehmet
the irony is rich, Ergün
No.1485
>>1472
> no other Slavic language has anymore other than some Bulgarian dialects
actually Podjuna speech in Carinthia preserves the nasals too.
No.1486
>>1471
>hurr durr I don't understand how it works
>I'll just ignore that current English alphabet works just as retardedly by now
No.1524
>>1485
intredasting, never heard of it before.
No.1572
>>585
Disagree. Chinese sounds ugly to me, a native speaker.
But Vietnamese sounds even worse to my untrained ears and just makes me laugh uncontrollably because its sounds reek of embarrassment.
No.1575
>>1572
I think it's because of it's implosives. It's pretty much the only language other than Sindhi outside of Africa/Mesoamerica that has them.
No.1576
>>1575
>implosives
Holy shit.
That sounds like choking.
No.1578
>>1575
actually khmer has implosives too
No.1581
>>1578
I did not know that. Did they independently acquire them or are they genetic?
>>1576
It's pretty much gulping and producing a sound at the same time. The Mesoamerican version came from ejectives (I think, at least that's how the Mayan languages acquired them)
No.1589
>>1581
khmer got them from preglottalized plosives or essentially glottal stop + plosive clusters, about 800-600 years ago
meanwhile simple voiced plosives got devoiced so implosives are now in free variation with simple voiced plosive articulation
vietnamese implosives are generally preglottalized and there's also a glottal tone with a glottal stop in the middle of the vowel, corresponding to glottals at the end of the syllable in other vietic languages that preserve them, so the feature must be at least about 2000 years old
No.1590
No.1592
>>1482
>which
All of them, they sound like shit and look like a doctor's cursive handwriting.
No.1606
>>1472
>Polish Cyrillic alphabet
Link?
No.1607
>>1606
You could have just searched yourself. It's exactly the same as Russian except some archaic letters for nasal vowels
No.1608
>>1607
I thought perhaps it was more specialized. Still, I suppose that makes sense.
No.1610
>>1608
Polish retains palatalization system (which is absent in South Slavic languages) so there's no reason to go extravagant, it works just like in Russian.
Also note that while Polish keeps having two nasal vowels like in Proto-Slavic, the system got reanalyzed, Proto-Slavic *ę generated iotated nasal vowels ię and ią in Polish, and *ǫ generated ę and ą, depending on vowel length (ą from long, ę from short).