What is the most beautiful language?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

[Lavender Brown]

1. Everything in Italian sounds like "I love you"

[Phillycat]

22. Agreed!

I love the sound of Italian. :)

[Richardo]

26. "Sylvia Poggioooooli, NPR news, Rome"

:)

[Phillycat]

29. Mmmmmmmmm.

Sexy! And I'm a woman!

[SCDem]

2. Portuguese

I think Portuguese is the most beautiful language there is. Unfortunately I have not mastered it but I still think it is the best there is.

[Goldmund]

3. Hahaha who the hell voted "German"???

[redqueen]

31. I did

I like it!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

4. I voted...

Italian, but I'm biased.

I like Russian a lot... so sexy!

[Hand]

30. No kidding!

A great-looking Russian lady works right across from me and occasionally speaks with her sister on the phone... OY! "Da, khorosho" never sounded better!

:loveya:

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. !kang

Of course. :eyes:

[flamingyouth]

6. Had to vote for Swedish

First, because probably no one else will, and second, because I was lulled to sleep by my grandmother singing to me in Swedish. :D

[Shrek]

7. COBOL

Absolutely mellifluous.

[terrya]

8. French, of course. The language of amour.

[sam sarrha]

9. Esperanto

[DelawareValleyDem]

10. Pig Latin

[calico1]

11. I like the sound of Portuguese.

Knowing Spanish, I can pick up quite a bit of Portuguese, even though most people think it would be Italian that a person who speaks Spanish would understand best.

[Richardo]

12. We had some French interns here for the summer...

...our department was assigned a one of the gals, and I spent many an hour in unproductive distraction listening to her in the adjacent cube speaking French on the phone. :loveya:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Yes. Back to work now. :spank:

[lilymidnite]

13. Irish Gaelic

[Cat Atomic]

33. That language has an interesting sound, doesn't it?

I heard it for the first time on vacation last year. I'd SEEN it before, of course- on signs and things like that. But I'd never heard it spoken.

I just listened to people speaking it at the train stations and pubs for ages. Really unique sound.

[Huckebein the Raven]

14. I voted French

but I love the sound of Italian too.

[LDS Jock]

15. What's wrong with English?

Of foreign languages, I like German best.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I was thinking the same thing lds. When used properly, it can be

a very beautiful thing. :hi:

[chenGOD]

25. English is the most illogical language ever...

That's what's wrong with it...and tring to teach it as a Second language does my head in!!!1

Plus it's such a copycat language...all the good words come from other languages...


(ok, not all the good words, but I don't think DU lets us type the really good English words...lol)



PS: I do actually quite enjoy the English langauge, and find that yes, when used properly it can be an excellent language. But it's not the coolest-that's Japanese. Although swearing in Korean is quite a lot of fun. :)

[MissMillie]

16. This question reminds me of

A Fish Called Wanda.

[puddycat]

17. Feline

[UpsideDownFlag]

18. Swahili.

Click CLick, Dirka Clik.

:smoke:

[djeseru]

20. The language of love.

Okay, so it sounds a little corny...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. english and bengali

[On the Road]

23. The Europeans Used to Say:

You speak French to your lover,
English to your business associates, and
German to your horses.

[LiberalEsto]

24. Estonian

If you ever have a chance to hear it, it sounds like birds singing. Truly melodious. Many people who hear me speaking it are amazed at how nice spoken Estonian sounds.

There was some language competition, maybe 100 years ago, in which Estonian was voted the second most beautiful language in the world, after Spanish.

Naturally, I'm Estonian-American.

[Village Idiot]

27. Don't know about beauty -

Russian and Arabic are the two world's best languages for swearing, though!!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. Hungarian

The poetry would be world famous if more people read the language.

[Cat Atomic]

32. Have you ever heard Turkish?

It's hard to top French, but Turkish comes close. It's full of V's and S's.

Spanish is beautiful, too- especially as it's spoken in Spain. It sounds like "chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Hawaiian

It's almost all vowels.

Example: Mahalo a nui loa = "Thank you very much."

The first time I spent a summer session at the Unversity of Hawaii, I stayed in a dorm called "Hale Laulima." The next time, I was in "Hale Aloha Lehua."

[JVS]

35. Die schoenste Sprache ist natuerlich die deutsche Sprache.

[China_cat]

36. Other

Sign language.