Your top 5 most and least favorite world languages

[Cristiano viejo]

U like German but dont like castellano???

That is my language, boy. It does not count.

[Teutone]

I only like German and sincerely I dislike and even hate the rest, especially English and French. Russian, Italian, Portuguese also sound repugnant to me.

[Ranger0075]

Despite obvious difference among Indo-European languages I don't feel they look off to my ears when in comparison to African or Asian languages. SE Asian and Chinese languages (Sino-Tibetan and Tai) sounds funny to me tho. My favorite one is Arabic despite how weird it sounds for non-natives bcs when you finally start to study it you can notice how rich it is.

[rothaer]

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Bottom:
German (unwieldly polysyllables, guttural, sledgehammer accent, witness Mort)
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Nothing against that assessment but motivating it by how a Balkan Gypo speaks it seems somewhat unfair, lol.

[Jingle Bell]

Top ones:

Galician
Portuguese
German
Serbian
Russian


Least ones:

Hindi
Turkish
West-African languages like Yoruba

[Eurafricanid]

Top ones:

Galician
Portuguese
German
Serbian
Russian


Least ones:

Hindi
Turkish
West-African languages like Yoruba

Brothah! haha

Most

Galician
Greek
Occitan
Catalan
Ligurian (and other Gallo-Italic languages)
Italian

Least

Arabic ()
Turkish (Sounds like a weird mix of the Gypsy language + Slavic, to me)
Mandarin & Other Sinitic Languages (A bit too confusing to me)
Languages that have retroflex consonants


Disclaimer: I don't hate these languages, they're just the bottom of the list, when we're talking about world languages

Many in common! I didn't put purtuguese because it's obvious haha (btw, hindi is a language with retroflex consonants, the most famous one)

[KirillMazur]

Favourite:
German (I can write in German here at the same level as in English, but it will take triple time to make the post readable).
Serbian + Belarussian
Persian
Amharic (has this "ы" sound like in Russian and not so consonant like other (Asian) Semitic langs.
Mordovian
Lithuanian

Least favourite:
Chinese
Vietnamese
Thai (tonal langs as a whole)
French

Yes. But craziest thing is that Finnish sounds exactly SAME as Hungarian (feel, pitch, accent, everything). I always get shocked when I see Finnish video or film.
average Joe can easily confuse it with Hungarian. Vocabulary has nothing in common tho except maybe few dozen words only linguists can recognize.

I can't believe they have same vibe and they separated enormously long time ago, thousands of years have passed!

When you hear Finnish as Indo-European native speaker it sounds like Hungarian except you can't understand anything.

The Mordovian languages sound like Russian, but with a Finno-Ugric vocabulary. They do not contain any foreign sounds for the Russian ear, the only difference is a slightly different approach to stresses. The Mordovian languages are in stark contrast to the neighboring Volga-Finnish languages, which are full of exotic sounds for Russian and sound like completely foreign languages.

[Roy]

Favourite:
German (I can write in German here at the same level as in English, but it will take triple time to make the post readable).
Serbian + Belarussian
Persian
Amharic (has this "ы" sound like in Russian and not so consonant like other (Asian) Semitic langs.
Mordovian
Lithuanian

Least favourite:
Chinese
Vietnamese
Thai (tonal langs as a whole)
French

The Mordovian languages sound like Russian, but with a Finno-Ugric vocabulary. They do not contain any foreign sounds for the Russian ear, the only difference is a slightly different approach to stresses. The Mordovian languages are in stark contrast to the neighboring Volga-Finnish languages, which are full of exotic sounds for Russian and sound like completely foreign languages.

I think Lithuanian sounds quite Russian-like. I think it is the melody of the language and palatalised consonants that remind me Russian.

Latvian OTOH though does not give me this impression.

[sanhadji]

Favorite

English
French
Takbaylit (kabylians)
Fusha (Koran arabic that sound poetic and sophisticated unlike arabic slang spoken in arabs countries)
Italian

Least

Chinese
Russian
Swedish
Indians languages (dont know the name but i sucks)
Turk

[B01AB20]

A lot of imagination and invention I guess.