Most and least attractive languages (sound-wise)

Just my opinion of course.

To me, some languages that I find not-attractive sounding are: Dutch, Portuguese, Cantonese

Languages that I find attractive sounding: Italian, Japanese

Neutral on: English, Korean, Russian, French, Spanish

Posted May 4, 2023, 8:43 AM UTC

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[deleted]•

Danish is the worst. The. Worst.

I like mandarin.

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cozymelli•

Japanese sounds really beautiful. I also like english.

I don’t like the sound of the russian language (and not because of the war or anything, I am really just talking about the language).

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Quiet_Goat8086•

I had a roommate in college from India. I was always concerned when she would talk to her family back home because it seemed like they were mad at each other. But it’s just a harsher sounding language.

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SeriousPuppetOP•

Yeah same with Cantonese. Sounds very harsh like they are yelling at each other, but apparently that's normal.

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gooese_doark•

no joke, my mother-language: norwegian, sounds pretty bad
probably like everything else sounds fine, i like french

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SeriousPuppetOP•

I can't recall what norwegian sounds like. Is that where erling haaland is from?

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gooese_doark•

Yeah Haaland's from norway. And if you don't know how Norwegian sounds, i guess you can just... Search it up?

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SeriousPuppetOP•

I think certain words/phrases sound nice in french, but some not so much, like when it starts to sound too nasely and like they are spitting.

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highmickey•

Phonetically German sounds really wonderful to me and east asian countries' languages sound bad.

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fizzlefistIf it pings, I can kill it.•

Klingon was deliberately designed (yes, it’s an actual constructed language) to be as difficult to pronounce and harsh to hear as possible. So, there ya go.

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Chachaanteng2021•

Language is a part of the culture, when you know the culture of Hong Kong, then you may find cantonese is also attractive. Perhaps you can check out this channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7wmLug\_B7E&t=53s

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SeriousPuppetOP•

Good point. I actually don't find it too unattractive. Not nearly as bad as Dutch. (and I'm part Dutch).

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