View Poll Results: Which of the most widely spoken European languages worldwide sounds better to your ears?

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  • Dutch

    3 7.69%
  • English

    19 48.72%
  • French

    2 5.13%
  • Portuguese

    5 12.82%
  • Spanish

    10 25.64%
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    Default Which of the most widely spoken European languages worldwide sounds better to your ears?

    The presenters accents in the videos are standard for their country of origin (Netherlands, England, France, Portugal and Spain).

    Dutch
    Mainly in the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Netherlands Antilles, Suriname

    [YOUTUBE]Eu7XI22vjbg[/YOUTUBE]

    English
    Mainly in the British Isles and British dependencies and overseas territories, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

    [YOUTUBE]WnmBk_3TawQ[/YOUTUBE]

    French
    Mainly in France and its overseas territories, Wallonia (Belgium), western cantons of Switzerland, former French colonies in Africa, French Guyana, French Antilles and Quebec (Canada)

    [YOUTUBE]7hg11Kw5ppY[/YOUTUBE]

    Portuguese
    Mainly in Portugal and its autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé e Princípe, East Timor and Brazil

    [YOUTUBE]nHFKmGnicF4[/YOUTUBE]

    Spanish (Castilian)
    Mainly in Spain and much of South and Central America

    [YOUTUBE]-JfColTsuog[/YOUTUBE]

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    European Portuguese.

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    i would say Spanish because is similar to the language spoken here

    and also english, but only english from UK, strangely i have difficult to understand american english, while british english is easier to understand for me

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    British English or very good (like Bostonian or the like) American English.

    If it is bad English (low level and most dialects), then I prefer French and Spanish in comparison.

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    Spanish. It seems to have more of a flow in the way it sounds.

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    British English... I love it!
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    1. English
    2. Dutch
    The rest of those languages dont sound all too awesome to me.

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    Well, I voted for Dutch since it's a language I'm quite interested in at the moment (perhaps because I'm visiting the Netherlands in the Summer). I like the kinda "rough" sound of the Dutch language.

    As of English, I appreciate a Queen Elizabeth II-type of British English, very clean and polite.

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    Depends what they're saying.

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    English sounds the best to me. I like French too.

    I'm surprised by how nice Portuguese sounds here. It almost sounds like French to my ears!

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