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    Quote Originally Posted by Clementina View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Treffie View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wanderlust View Post
    English, German, Danish, Finnish and Greek because I'm biased.

    You like Danish but not Norwegian or Swedish?

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hevneren View Post

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


    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 or Edward Fox. For short: Received Pronunciation.

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

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    French, Italian and Portuguese.

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    French, overwhelmingly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sebastianus Rex View Post
    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 (Dutch news) to this (Flemish news).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthropologique View Post
    French, Italian and Portuguese.
    Agree.. European Portuguese especially.

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

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

    [YOUTUBE]701P9m-4mUQ[/YOUTUBE]
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