BEST LANGUAGE

[Senpai]

Brazilian Portuguese is the best sounding romance language.

Honestly, I hate it. I've grown up watching UFC so I think hearing Brazilians constantly just made me begin disliking it. I severely hate the English accent of most Brazilians.. MOST

[Latinus]

Honestly, I hate it. I've grown up watching UFC so I think hearing Brazilians constantly just made me begin disliking it. I severely hate the English accent of most Brazilians.. MOST

Cool story.

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[Senpai]

Cool story.

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I could just be conflating the language with my bias against certain fighters. Who knows.

[Óttar]

Don't you guys learn Spanish down there in school?

Foreign language education is shit in the U.S. unless you go to a private school. I took Spanish in 6th grade in Rhode Island at a private school. It was this early education which is partly responsible for my knowledge of Spanish now. I began teaching myself German in 8th grade and minored in it in college.

[Dick]

private school.

Yes bro we get it, you're rich.

[billErobreren]

What do you seek to do with this new language, is the question. Do they have to be European?
Let's see.

I've always liked the sound of Slavic languages; Polish sounds nice but too hard, their phonetic's a bitch too. My biggest handicap with Russian was always Cyrillic and Czech was probably the easier one for me to get into. I've given up on all three since I was about 19 but yeah Czech's easier than Polish, that's what I remember. I don't know much about Serbo-Croatian or any of the Southern ones.

Romance? Italian and Portuguese are the nicest for song. Then, there's French, Romanian and Spanish. None are easier for Anglophones, I just had an easier time getting into French and later Spanish since my mother was a child of the 60s and some people then were into "ye-ye" music and I remebered a good chunk of those songs. Spanish has been butchered and mangled every way possible, no two Hispanophones sound alike, so don't even bother trying to sound Castillian, it's fine.

With Germanic languages? Standard German's the most useful and awfully sexy, at least to me. Dutch sounds like an Anglo-German baby with funny sounding g's. For Scandinavian languages...It's pointless to learn them, very few speakers and most Scandinavians you'll meet are coherent English speakers already so all you'll get is a flattered look from them. They're very closely akin so once you know one you might as well say you know all three. I don't really speak Norwegian or Swedish, turns out all I had to do was speak a less flat Danish at a slower pace, g's aren't as weak and are often replaced by k's, roll my r's and mind that "skj" is pronounced something like "sch" in Norwegian. Icelandic and Faroese are more distant but there's fewer of them to go around.

[Dick]

What do you seek to do with this new language, is the question. Do they have to be European?
Let's see.

I've always like the sound of Slavic languages; Polish sounds nice but too hard, their phonetic's a bitch too. My biggest handicap with Russian was always Cyrillic and Czech was probably the easier one for me to get into. I've given up on all three since I was about 19 but yeah Czech's easier than Polish, that's what I remember. I don't know much about Serbo-Croatian or any of the Southern ones.

Romance? Italian and Portuguese are the nicest for song. Then, there's French, Romanian and Spanish. None are easier for Anglophones, I just had an easier time getting into French and later Spanish since my mother was a child of the 60s and some people then were into "ye-ye" music then and I remebered a good chunk of those songs. Spanish has been butchered and mangled every way possible, no two Hispanophones sound alike, so don't even bother trying to sound Castillian, it's fine.

With Germanic languages? Standard German's the most useful and awfully sexy, at least to me. Dutch sounds like an Anglo-German baby with funny sounding g's. For Scandinavian languages...It's pointless to learn them, very few speakers and most Scandinavians you'll meet are coherent English speakers already so all you'll get is a flattered look from them. They're very closely akin so once you know one you might as well say you know all three. I don't really speak Norwegian or Swedish turns out all I had to do was speak a less flat Danish at a slower pace, g's aren't as weak and are often replace by k's, roll my r's and mind that "skj" is pronounced something like "sch" in Norwegian. Icelandic and Faroese are more distant but there's fewer of them to go around.

Be honest, you write for a living don't you?

[Daco Celtic]

I actually started learning Welsh, and was making good progress but quickly became disenchanted with it due to the 0 people I could converse with.

From what little Welsh I've heard, it actually seemed like a very pleasant language. Not harsh or guttural. Too bad more people don't speak it.

[Dick]

From what little Welsh I've heard, it actually seemed like a very pleasant language. Not harsh or guttural. Too bad more people don't speak it.

Don't worry mate, english in the US will become extinct before Welsh does in whatever country they speak it in.

[Nazarene]

Russian imo