Best sounding language?

[Graham]

Provided its not spoken in a whining or sing-song manner.

Then it could lead to terminal irritation or worse.

I like sing songy Italian or English spoken by an Italian. Also like to hear Welsh, but not to look at. As an assortment of random scrabble letters.

[Corvus]

I have a certain affinity for the Slovene language,
I really like to listen to it.

[Yaroslav]

Spanish, including Catalan? Why not English including Dutch then?

Dutch is dialect of German.

"Finnish-Estonian-Hungarian-Turkish"

Yeah, they're all really similar languages.

Finnish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUU7geqN-U
Estonian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Mp7ri7uUM
Hungarian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVsrM0hqIc
Turkish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-edujla-E

Finnish and Estonian are similar, but Hungarian and Turkish...

To foreign ear they sound the same, and they are all part of same language family called Turanian.

[Vasconcelos]

Dutch is dialect of German.

Don't think our most well known dutch member will enjoy reading this, coming from someone who lives on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

[Europa]

[QUOTE=OrthodoxUnity;825735]Dutch is dialect of German.


You probably meant West Germanic?English is Germanic too..

[Styggnacke]

To foreign ear they sound the same,

I've never heard of anyone who has confused Finnish with Turkish...

and they are all part of same language family called Turanian.

The idea of a Turanian language family is outdated.

[Comte Arnau]

Dutch is dialect of German.

You base language classification on a racial map?

The thing is, you could have a point in joining Portuguese with Galician, Czech with Slovak, English with Scots, Italian with Corsican... Different standards for languages springing off a same root. But considering Catalan a dialect of Spanish, Romansh a dialect of French or Sardinian a dialect of Italian just means you're simply misinformed about these languages, to say it in a polite way.

[Foxy]

I voted for French because as an Italian I cannot understand how my language sounds. In Italy we say that French is the language of love so I went with it.

[Foxy]

Provided its not spoken in a whining or sing-song manner.

Then it could lead to terminal irritation or worse.

I like sing songy Italian or English spoken by an Italian. Also like to hear Welsh, but not to look at. As an assortment of random scrabble letters.

Can you post me a video where someone speaks with a sing-songy Italian? I wanna understand what it means...

[Graham]

Can you post me a video where someone speaks with a sing-songy Italian? I wanna understand what it means...

The opposite of monotone, dull.

singsong
1. (Linguistics) an accent, metre, or intonation that is characterized by an alternately rising and falling rhythm, as in a person's voice, piece of verse, etc.
2. . A monotonously rising and falling inflection of the voice.

In Italian Speaking English. I can find this well known chef in the UK.
Gino D'Acampo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clTz2i4nG6s&feature=fvst