Order from the harshest to the sweetest: Russian, Ukrainian, Slovakian and Polish

[Foxy]

Slovakian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian.

Really, how can you say that Russian is soft?
If Russian is soft what are the romance languages?

[rhiannon]

My bf always refers to Russian as a sweet language (!), maybe because it has more weak marks than Ukrainian?!

To my romance ear the sweetest is Polish, Russian is the most characterist but it doesn't sound sweet at all to me (on the contrary it sounds quite arrogant).

Ukrainian to me sounds like a mix of Polish and Russian but less characteristic than both (doesn't have the arrogant twist of Russian and doesn't have the "sh-sh" sound of Polish), yet Ukrainian is like a more guttural Polish. Slovakian sounds the harshest.


I don't know if what I wrote follows any logic.

What is your opinion?

So mine is:

Sweetest: Polish
Ukrainian
Russian
Harshest: Slovakian

I wouldn't really know, but I did have a Slovakian roommate for a years time in med school. She was confident, but certainly not harsh. She became a surgeon.

[Insuperable]

Really, how can you say that Russian is soft?
If Russian is soft what are the romance languages?

Btw, I would put Ukrainian and Russian together, on the 3rd place.

[щрбл]

Really, how can you say that Russian is soft?
If Russian is soft what are the romance languages?

For example, they pronounce their vowels softer than the others as well as they use extensively ь softening the consonants. And probably many other reasons which I can't think of.

[Foxy]

For example, they pronounce their vowels softer than the others as well as they use extensively ь softening the consonants. And probably many other reasons which I can't think of.

True, but the final effect is still a harsh language. Indistinct vowels make a harsh sound, not a clear, sweet one. It's the same thing that happens in germanic languages that use the Umlaut.

[ЛыSSый]

My bf always refers to Russian as a sweet language (!), maybe because it has more weak marks than Ukrainian?!

To my romance ear the sweetest is Polish, Russian is the most characterist but it doesn't sound sweet at all to me (on the contrary it sounds quite arrogant).

Let me repeat one time more: ukrainian is not an independent language, it's a dialect of russian with about half of polish and few of jewish, turk and romanian words and some notmain polish language constructions. It's an oficcial opinion of international linguistic science.

Aslo, in russian, polish and "ukrainian" languages exists different variants of speaking, not dialekts, but different intonations, and some of them sounds like song as default.
I know as minimum 1 central-ukrainian an 1 north-russian.