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Languages that sound bad

TheGirl   Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:42 pm GMT

I don't like Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian (unless it's opera) and RP English (unless it's in Harry Potter or a film adaptation of a 19th century novel). Which languages sound bad to your ear?

Caspian   Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:06 pm GMT

Well that's me stumped. RP English is my native language, I'm learning Mandarin and Italian and like the sound of Cantonese.

Andi   Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:30 pm GMT

Languages like English with lots of vowels sound bad, like molasses and diarrhoea spilling all over.

Flemish   Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:46 pm GMT

French and Italian.

Guest   Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:14 am GMT

Arabic and Hebrew sound awful. Norwegian, Croatian, Finnish, French and German (only North of the river Main) sound best.

---   Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:18 am GMT

all the languages of India.

guest   Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:44 pm GMT

American English. I don't like the laziness and nasality of it.

d-fens   Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:41 pm GMT

British English, because it's too nasal and squeezy. It just doesn't sound good.

Franco   Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:39 pm GMT

Both American and British English sound bad. Too much "potato-in-you-mouth" sounding.

~   Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:16 am GMT

Vietnamese

Forpresser   Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:19 am GMT

French and Vietnamese sound dreadful to me Swedish too

ID   Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:35 pm GMT

Spanish period

cppgeek   Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:46 pm GMT

Esperanto

youth   Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:44 pm GMT

chinese- beacuse it is too tonal hindi- just dont like it but strangely formal urdu sounds beautiful

Colette   Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:04 pm GMT

Spanish, Serbian and most slavonic languages. Chinese too