Most attractive-sounding European language

[Queen B]

Ok, I have seen the ''least attractive-sounding European language thread", and now its time for the most attractive one.

[Sagitta Hungarica]

My opinion might change, as I might add to the list, but right now to me German, English, French, Hungarian, Finnish, Dutch, Gaelic, Italian, Icelandic are the most beautiful sounding.

[Peyrol]

Monegasque language.

[Damião de Góis]

To my ears, italian.

[Treffie]

Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish

[morski]

Greek spoken by dandelion, I suppose.:p

[Queen B]

Greek spoken by dandelion, I suppose.:p

:p:p I don't have a nice voice, but I think that Greek along with Spanish are the most attractive languages in Europe.

And its one of the few times that I tell this not because I am biased, but because I really believe that it is.

There is a balance between the vowels and the consonants, without a rough accent like f.e. German have.

[Sikeliot]

Italian, Portuguese, and English with a strong Scottish or northern English accent.

[Unurautare]

They all sound nice,except Hungarian(imagine if these people were angry):

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[Svartálfar]

Estonian and Finnish.

[Wanderlust]

English, German, Danish, Finnish and Greek because I'm biased. ;)

[Sagitta Hungarica]

They all sound nice,except Hungarian(imagine if these people were angry):

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The Romanian troll strikes again :p

[Sikeliot]

If someone doesn't have something nice to say, then don't say it ;) And I mean, this thread is called "most attractive sounding European language" so only post positive comments at least.

[Germanicus]

Perfectly clipped English is an art form...this video will help.

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[Sebastianus Rex]

Italian by far.

After that, french, english and spanish.

[Laubach]

German, french and italian.

[Leliana]

Finnish, German and Italian. :)

[Logan]

Much depends upon the speaker. Scots Gaelic
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[gold_fenix]

French and Italian

[The Alchemist]

German is ubersexy

[AussieScott]

Italian, Portuguese, and English with a strong Scottish or northern English accent.

Och aye lassie. :)

French is no bad either spoken by a woman with a real feminine tone.

[Hevneren]

Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish

I'm surprised, to be honest. I don't think of my language as attractive sounding. I suppose, for me, an attractive language would be Italian. At least the kind I've heard. Not sure about all the dialects. Women speaking French also sounds pleasant to me, while I often find men who speak it a bit annoying.

[Hevneren]

English, German, Danish, Finnish and Greek because I'm biased. ;)


You like Danish but not Norwegian or Swedish? :eek:

To us, Danish sounds too guttural and like they've got a hot potato in their mouth. A bit like Dutch. :p

[The Lawspeaker]

To us, Danish sounds too guttural and like they've got a hot potato in their mouth. A bit like Dutch. :p
It's funny. I have seen more often that Danes and Dutch are being compared to each other.

To many Danish sounds a bit like someone from the North-East of the country while he is having a very severe cold and is still trying to speak. :D


To me: Italian, Flemish Dutch (if spoken by a girl) or French sounds beautiful. German if spoken with a slight Austrian accent. English only sounds civilised when spoken by someone like Melvyn Bragg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwclNPnqJ2U&feature=related) or Edward Fox (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1I1eOQgrw). For short: Received Pronunciation.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Is there a big difference between flemish dutch and the dutch spoken in the Netherlands? Is the accent softer, more melodious?

[Anthropologique]

French, Italian and Portuguese.

[Jake Featherston]

French, overwhelmingly.

[The Lawspeaker]

Is there a big difference between flemish dutch and the dutch spoken in the Netherlands? Is the accent softer, more melodious?
Yes. Flemish Dutch sounds somewhat softer, more melodious then the version spoken in the Netherlands (apart from down South).

Compare this (http://www.webscene.nl/video_v3.aspx?sr=1&vid=LZVFYqmgu0GrVpGKAcm5Xw) (Dutch news) to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzdtI2zD9Mg) (Flemish news).

[Sikeliot]

French, Italian and Portuguese.

Agree.. European Portuguese especially.

[Rosenrot]

I like Italian, because sounds Epic for some reason. Althoug German really are Über sexy :p

I like Swedish to. At least sounds good on metal songs:

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[Rosenrot]

Agree.. European Portuguese especially.
Carioca portuguese sounds great! xD
Sometimes...

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[Sikeliot]

Some types of Brazilian Portuguese are nice, but not the ones where the vowel sounds are too drawn out, and make the speaker sound slow.

It takes a Portuguese person much less time to say the same sentence than a Brazilian, simply because Brazilian Portuguese is so drawn out. It's like what US Southern speech sounds like to a northerner.. except it's Portuguese.

[Incal]

Any European language sounds sexy when spoken by a lady.

[Adrian]

Italian...

[Sahson]

I can't believe the amount of people saying italian. I don't like it.

[Adrian]

I can't believe the amount of people saying italian. I don't like it.

I suggest you this movie...

[Unurautare]

I can't believe the amount of people saying italian. I don't like it.

"Bimbo Latin",as one frustrated guy put it(lots of words and names endings with -o) sounds more melodious,compare Italian to Romanian(names ending with -u or -ul) or conversational Latin(names -us) and most people will choose Italian.

http://youtu.be/GVBN0_UOL6I?t=2m15s Latin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhxV869vzU Romanian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTODzCG_eM&feature=fvwrel O! *although this guy is American.

[Arrow Cross]

Latin.

[Turkophagos]

1. Latin languages.

2. Greek.

3. Finnic languages.

4. Slavic languages.

5. Germanic languages.


In this particular order.

[Peasant]

Arabic

[Queen B]

Arabic

Ehm - its about European :confused:

[Wanderlust]

Ehm - its about European :confused:

There are so many Arabs living in Europe, so.. ;)

[Queen B]

There are so many Arabs living in Europe, so.. ;)

:D:D:D can't argue on that. lol

[Mordid]

Finnic

[Turkophagos]

Arabic

Arabic doesn't sound that bad when it's accompanied by Byzantine music.


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[Sylvanus]

The ancient attic greek, italian and the gaeilge.

[Turkophagos]

The ancient attic greek



Because you hear it spoken in movies, songs and everything.

[Sagitta Hungarica]

Arabic

Trolling?

[heyaitsme]

I'm a fan of French ;)

Portuguese is alright too...

[heyaitsme]

Carioca portuguese sounds great! xD
Sometimes...

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I like it, sounds cute :thumb001:

[bluesky]

english (irish accent) swedish,russian and ofc croatian and if i say croatian i must include serbian,bosnian,slovenian,macedonian and bulgarian too :)

[ikki]

beautiful finnish language and two finnish top celebrity stars
http://vimeo.com/30840997

[Absinthe]

Spoken by women: French, Spanish, Italian

Spoken by men: German, Dutch, English (proper), Swedish/Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, etc.

I can't judge the attractiveness of Greek since it's my native tongue. ;)

[BanjaLuka]

english (irish accent) swedish,russian and ofc croatian and if i say croatian i must include serbian,bosnian,slovenian,macedonian and bulgarian too :)

Your no. 666 Satanic post on the Apricity had to be about languages :P

Pffft FAIL ;)

[Queen B]

As I told before, I love how Spanish sound.
Today I watched ''A single man'', and Jon Kortajarena's spanish (along with Kortajarena himself) was amazing in the ear (and the eye:icon_redface:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlms5l7Ho7A

( I don't know how his accent is classified though)

[MagnaLaurentia]

French, bien sûr! :P

People know just French from France but French from Québec is also beautiful.

Vincent Vallières, Pop Rock/Folk 2010
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Robert Charlebois, Rock/Folk 1976
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[BiałaZemsta]

French, Polish, Russian... in no particular order.

[rhiannon]

Perfectly clipped English is an art form...this video will help.

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I love all the accents in England, but as far as the Queen's English versus the commoner variety, I like the Cockney accent even more:) Perhaps because to my ears, it sounds more Northern, kind of like Scottish English.

Please don't faint....:D (I can see you and Osweo just cringing right about now, lol). We Americans don't distinguish British accents that well from each other....but my exposures have show me that I do love the sound of an Irish or Scottish Brogue.

[rhiannon]

I will admit that French is beautiful to hear properly spoken....but I have always heard that the French pretty much hate the rest of us because they think their language is so superior to all the rest. Hearing this has always therefore detracted from my appreciation of the French Language.

I personally have great preference for the Germanic languages....

[AussieScott]

I love all the accents in England, but as far as the Queen's English versus the commoner variety, I like the Cockney accent even more:) Perhaps because to my ears, it sounds more Northern, kind of like Scottish English.

Please don't faint....:D (I can see you and Osweo just cringing right about now, lol). We Americans don't distinguish British accents that well from each other....but my exposures have show me that I do love the sound of an Irish or Scottish Brogue.

Cockney is what the Australian accent predominately descends from, it differs very slightly from state to state. Though I like my Granddads upper class Scottish accent, like Sean Connery's, but with slightly more of a Scots accent.

[rhiannon]

Cockney is what the Australian accent predominately descends from, it differs very slightly from state to state. Though I like my Granddads upper class Scottish accent, like Sean Connery's, but with slightly more of a Scots accent.

Right....because Australia was originally colonized by convicts who had been booted of England, or so that is always what was told to me.

[AussieScott]

Right....because Australia was originally colonized by convicts who had been booted of England, or so that is always what was told to me.

Correct the poor areas in the SW of England I think, NZ, Canada and US colonies received them as well, not sure on numbers though.

[safinator]

English sounds attractive IMO

[gold_fenix]

As I told before, I love how Spanish sound.
Today I watched ''A single man'', and Jon Kortajarena's spanish (along with Kortajarena himself) was amazing in the ear (and the eye:icon_redface:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlms5l7Ho7A

( I don't know how his accent is classified though)

central accent or correct Castilian,we can say is the common Spanish, by the way when a Greek speak in his languaje sounds as a Spanish speaking greek

[Queen B]

central accent or correct Castilian,we can say is the common Spanish, by the way when a Greek speak in his languaje sounds as a Spanish speaking greek

Thank you! I love that accent.
Actually, in the sound, Greek and Spanish, have very similar sounds.
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[Arthur Scharrenhans]

So many people say Italian, I feel flattered! ;-)

I like the sound of Icelandic and Portuguese.
Scots (or English with a Scottish accent) is nice, too.

Ancient Greek was beautiful but modern Greek, IMHO, is so-so.

[Sagitta Hungarica]

I will admit that French is beautiful to hear properly spoken....but I have always heard that the French pretty much hate the rest of us because they think their language is so superior to all the rest. Hearing this has always therefore detracted from my appreciation of the French Language.

I personally have great preference for the Germanic languages....

Well French have every reason to feel their language superior to most. It sounds as if a group of brilliant literature experts created it.

[Sylvanus]

Because you hear it spoken in movies, songs and everything.

Coz I learnt it many years ago. :rolleyes: The diftongs and triftongs were beautiful and ethereal like paideuomai.

[Gratis]

Also saying French and Italian.

Spanish is goddamn annoying.

[Monolith]

French and Russian.

[Treffie]

Nothing sounds as sweet as Irish Gaelic when in song :love:

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[rhiannon]

Well French have every reason to feel their language superior to most. It sounds as if a group of brilliant literature experts created it.

It's a pretty language, but not so pretty as to warrant the chip on the shoulder I have always heard the French to have.

JMO, of course:)

[SaxonCeorl]

Italian for me.

[Zephyr]

Icelandic, Norwegian and Faroese without a doubt.

Also Irish Gaelic and Welsh in the west. Occitan, Lombard and Venetian in the south. Latvian and Lithuanian in the east.

[Monolith]

Nothing sounds as sweet as Irish Gaelic when in song :love:

Sounds great. :)

[Ausência Forçada]

Portuguese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-4ejzALy0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDby_KHmVO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2wkORpplM

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Italian sounds good, french too.;)

[Drawing-slim]

Strangly i find girls that speak german atractive sounding. Goes without saying french girls are very atractive when theu speak.
Engish beats them all, english souds good to speak it read it sing it.
Albanian language is very atractive depending what dialect you like.

As for ugly sounding languages, serbian and greek languages are sadly depressing, also russian does not sound good at all.
Im surprised how authors of these nations ever found the joy writing in these languages, seriously.

As for italian and spanish i consider them soap opeta anoying languages

[Riki]

[QUOTE=Treffie;577150]Nothing sounds as sweet as Irish Gaelic when in song :love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=itq32Jd1jJE

[The Lawspeaker]

Nothing sounds as sweet as Irish Gaelic when in song :love:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=itq32Jd1jJE

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Méav Ní Mhaolchatha is eff.... hot. :cool::D (let alone Mairead Nesbitt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2dDbmVWUg))

[Peyrol]

Italian & German sung together

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[Leliana]

I like songs in Italian language, they have a nice melody. :) Eros Ramazotti, Gianna Nannini, Adriano Celentano, Laura Pausini or Al Bano und Romina Power. :boohoo:

[King Fingolfin]

Among Modern Languages: Italian, English (South British and Irish accents) German, French, Irish and Scottish.

Among Ancient and Medieval Languages: Latin, Greek (especially Attic and Ionic dialects), Old Norse, Occitan.

[musthavename]

English,Cambridge accent.

Flemish(-Dutch),Brabantian accent.

Italian,Tuscan accent.

[Comte Arnau]

Among Ancient and Medieval Languages: Latin, Greek (especially Attic and Ionic dialects), Old Norse, Occitan.

L'occitan es pas mòrt!

[beaver]

Italian sounds very good but i'm not certan about its practicalness.

[Peyrol]

English,Cambridge accent.

Flemish(-Dutch),Brabantian accent.

Italian,Tuscan accent.

I agree, tuscan accent is very funny, but very ancient.


Italian sounds very good but i'm not certan about its practicalness.

Unless you want live here, in Switzerland, in Malta, in San Marino, in Vaticano, in Principaute di Monaque, in Eritrea or in Libya is totally useless outside the peninsula.

[beaver]

Originally Posted by beaver View Post

Italian sounds very good but i'm not certan about its practicalness.

Unless you want live here, in Switzerland, in Malta, in San Marino, in Vaticano, in Principaute di Monaque, in Eritrea or in Libya is totally useless outside the peninsula.

I meant absense of cases (grammatical) in the English. If you decided to change one word in some Russian sentence you would have to change absolutely all ends (and even to work with the idea "from the zero"). I understand that I'm writing in some pidgin English on forums but I, at least, have not to do this hell work. And I said about Italian only that it sounds great :)

[Peyrol]

Originally Posted by beaver View Post



I meant absense of cases (grammatical) in the English. If you decided to change one word in some Russian sentence you would have to change absolutely all ends (and even to work with the idea "from the zero"). I understand that I'm writing in some pidgin English on forums but I, at least, have not to do this hell work. And I said about Italian only that it sounds great :)

Ah ok.
I thought that you meant you like italian language but at international level is useless :D

[Comte Arnau]

Originally Posted by beaver View Post
I meant absense of cases (grammatical) in the English. If you decided to change one word in some Russian sentence you would have to change absolutely all ends (and even to work with the idea "from the zero"). I understand that I'm writing in some pidgin English on forums but I, at least, have not to do this hell work. And I said about Italian only that it sounds great :)

Russians and Germans should decide once and for all to reduce all those unlearnable endings to just three or four. But quicklier, not in a slow gradual progressive way. That way they'll get more clients in the learning club. ;)

[beaver]

Russians and Germans should decide once and for all to reduce all those unlearnable endings to just three or four. But quicklier, not in a slow gradual progressive way. That way they'll get more clients in the learning club.
:D No way, we will enjoy our idiotic languages. English and Bulgarian were really successful in the fight against the ends and too complicated grammatical constructions. English won for many reasons (and this is among them).

[Bard]

Russians and Germans should decide once and for all to reduce all those unlearnable endings to just three or four. But quicklier, not in a slow gradual progressive way. That way they'll get more clients in the learning club. ;)

I agree, I've got a total repulsion for all those endings (and I've been studying latin for 8 years, my god).
At the moment I am studying spanish, it's a beautiful language, and an highly logical one. I find it almost easier than italian.

[Aces High]

English.

[Äike]

1. Estonian (Many foreigners who have heard it, instantly agree)
2. Finnish (Sounds very similar to Estonian, but is less refined and more archaic)
3. Swedish

[Leliana]

1. Estonian (Many foreigners who have heard it, instantly agree)
2. Finnish (Sounds very similar to Estonian, but is less refined and more archaic)
Isn't that the same language?

[Äike]

Isn't that the same language?

No, Estonian and Finnish are closely related, but they are different languages. A Finn can't understand Estonian without learning it, he maybe understands only some of it.

[The Ripper]

1. Estonian (Many foreigners who have heard it, instantly agree)
2. Finnish (Sounds very similar to Estonian, but is less refined and more archaic)
3. Swedish

Estonian is just a bastardization of tr00 Finnic. ;)

[Comte Arnau]

To what extent can you Finns and Estonians understand the Sami languages?

[The Ripper]

To what extent can you Finns and Estonians understand the Sami languages?

Not at all. Some words may sound / look similar.

EDIT: that reminds me, Sámi languages are sexy!

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[Äike]

To what extent can you Finns and Estonians understand the Sami languages?

0%, I understand it as well as you probably understand Dutch.

The Sami language is in a different language group from Finnish/Estonian, like Spanish is Romance and Dutch is Germanic.

[StonyArabia]

Russian, English and Maltese. Maltese is dialect of Arabic but altered heavily by Italian. In that order.

[SilverKnight]

British - English
specially in women ;)

[Thunor]

Queen's English
German
Dutch (many non-Dutch people find it ugly, but I like it.)
Russian
Swedish

I can't think of any more at the moment.

[Stars Down To Earth]

This is all pretty subjective, since each person's whole perception of sounds and languages will be differently shaped, but I'll bite anyway.

Modern languages: German, French, and Russian.

Ancient languages: Latin, Greek (especially the Attic dialect used in the old dramas), Sanskrit and Old Norse.

[rashka]

I love the Slavic languages. They sound so beautiful and rich in a sort of down to earth way.
The Slavic group is probably closest to Germanic, Celtic and Latin languages. It seems to be underrated by the Western world yet they had a huge and thriving culture. I wouldn't be surprised if it is even older than the other 3 groups, considering that all 4 came from the same root.

Baltic languages like Lithuanian and Latvian are also nice as they along with Slavic had been one language (one theory) before separating.

:icon_yell: As of 1997 there were 415,000,000 speakers of Slavic languages.


Russian song with English subtitles
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Serbian song with English subtitles
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Polish song with English subtitles
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[billErobreren]

I don't remember posting here but Oh well
I say
Welsh! my favorite, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the only national anthem I can listen to without wanting to slit my own throat & actually enjoy.
Icelandic, music to my ears.
Russian(not a fan of the people but that language is beautiful)
English, of course:rolleyes:
German(sexiest language on earth)
I always kind of liked Greek(well a lot actually)
Norwegian, I always liked.
Czech
Dutch(Don't know why it gets such a bad rep)
Polish
The Roman languages all kind of annoy me but Italian sounds great coming from women & funny from everyone else like Spanish, Portuguese sounds beautiful when sung, French annoys the crap me so I keep use to a minimum, Romanian is OK & Catalan is pretty nice.

[Guy234]

Allthough Im from germany, its definiteley spanish and italian, than some east european languages of very hot girls spoken lol

[Leadchucker]

Welsh! my favorite, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the only national anthem I can listen to without wanting to slit my own throat & actually enjoy.


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[Dohtig]

English, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and German.

[Harmonia]

I love sound of Finno-ugric languages, especially Hungarian and Finnish. It's a pity, that those two languages are extremely hard to learn X.X ..I also like Greek, Polish, Russian and north Germanic languages.

[PetiteParisienne]

I'm a bit biased toward French, but I do enjoy particularly enjoy hearing Scots Gaeilc, Swedish, Romanian, Swiss German, and Lithuanian.

[Trun]

Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Greek, Serbian - the languages in which even a death curse sounds like "I love you".

German - the language in which even "I love you" sounds like a swear.

[Styggnacke]

Finnic languages spoken by women. And Swedish, of course.

[Pallantides]

Icelandic, North Sámi and Finnish

[пустиняк]

English with Scottish accent or Irish accent Hahahah

[Hurrem sultana]

french sounds beautiful when women speak it

[rashka]

Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Greek, Serbian - the languages in which even a death curse sounds like "I love you".

German - the language in which even "I love you" sounds like a swear.

I'm trying to understand this. :confused:

[WitheredWhiteness]

Norwegian and Icelandic. Norsk er det vakreste språk!!! :D

I have to admit that recently I have also a crush on Finnish...

[Renekton]

Italian and then Spanish

[InfamousAngel99]

For me it’s not the language itself, it’s how deep a guy’s voice is. Idc what language a man is speaking, I will almost always find a deeper voice more attractive than a higher one

[Teutone]

Spanish

[Davystayn]

Russian definitely

[RenaRyuguu]

English, French and Swedish sound interesting to me.

[Roy]

Estonian, French, Portuguese

[Salty Ears]

Portuguese