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    Quote Originally Posted by Markos View Post
    I don't like spoken Mandarin, it's too harsh.
    I hate -SH- sounds in Mandarin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markos View Post
    Korean is the best, but I am bias.

    I actually think Japanese sounds good, but the softer consonants compared to Korean is weird to me sometimes haha. Japanese spoken very intensely sounds awesome.

    Vietnamese is sooo weird, haha. That's a funny one to me, and I agree Thai also for sure. I don't like spoken Mandarin, it's too harsh.
    Yeah, you seem biased lmao

    I do like Japanese though, definitely sounds nicer than standard Mandarin, at least to non-speakers of the languages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mutabor View Post
    I hate -SH- sounds in Mandarin.
    Yes! Shershersher, lol. I don't mean to mock but it seems very out of place in comparison to other sounds in the language. Very strange to the un_trained ear. Japanese and Korean are not tonal languages and have many consonants which are familiar to English speakers, so they should sound much nicer compared to the tonal languages in China and SE Asia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markos View Post
    Yes! Shershersher, lol. I don't mean to mock but it seems very out of place in comparison to other sounds in the language. Very strange to the un_trained ear. Japanese and Korean are not tonal languages and have many consonants which are familiar to English speakers, so they should sound much nicer compared to the tonal languages in China and SE Asia.
    I think Mongolian Manchu language influenced Korean. Hence it doesn't have tonal tendency like Chinese. Linguists can't prove that Korean should be included into Altaic family but agglutinative grammar of Mongolian and Korean languages indicates that there was interaction.

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    Kusunda language of Nepal, only 3 speakers left. It is a language isolate that doesn't belong in any known language family.


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