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      Originally posted by InTheMoment
      Korean...the way they can speak without using consonants is astounding.
      I love Korean! I even know one Korean word, which romanized is (roughly) chalmorugepsumnida, meaning \"I don't understand\".

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      Pillow talk and Jive are a close second.
      Ha, reminds me of Airplane --

      Jiveman2: Mnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
      Attndnt: Can I get you something?
      Jiveman2: S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up. Tightly.
      Attndnt: I'm sorry I don't understand.
      Jiveman1: Cutty say he cant hang.
      Woman4: Oh stewardess, I speak jive.
      Attndnt: Ohhhh, good.
      Woman4: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
      Attndnt: Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine.
      Woman4: Jus' hang loose blooood. She goonna catch up on the` rebound a de medcide.
      Jiveman2: What it is big mamma, my mamma didn't raise no dummy, I dug her rap.
      Woman4: Cut me som' slac' jak! Chump don wan no help, chump don git no help. Jive ass dude don got no brains anyhow.



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      Pig Latin, man, I used to love Pig Latin. Me and my friend would talk in Pig Latin when the parents were around, cuase they didn't know it (dont know how they managed that).



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      Originally posted by dianatastic!
      Personally, I think Italian is very beautiful.
      I cannot agree more In particular, I would take the Tuscany dialect of Italian.

      As a second language I would take French: it's has a sweet sound indeed.

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      Originally posted by Soberbob
      Whats Pillow Talk?
      http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=...s=pillow%20talk


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      Originally posted by InTheMoment
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      Originally posted by Eleven+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eleven)</div>
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      ENGLISH!!!! the most beautiful language is ENGLISH! lol. Second most beautiful language is THAI!! Third is the AFRICAN CLICK TALK language!!!! And the WORST is CHINESE!!! CHINESE SUCKSSS!!!!
      I change my mind.[/b]
      HAHAHAHAHA oh lordy

      I'd have to say with a few interesting (to say the least) exceptions, indeed English is the most beautiful language to my ears. Like this bit from John Donne's, A Valediction: forbidding mourning. Especially the alliteration in the last line.

      Dull sublunary lovers love
      (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit
      Absence, because it doth remove
      Those things which elemented it.

      But we by a'love, so much refin'd
      That we ourselves know not what it is,
      Inter-assured of the mind,
      Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse.

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      German, when it's being spoken by a skilled American woman. Native German-speakers use more of the back of the mouth than the front. Americans mostly use the front. So when a reasonably skilled American speaks German, she will tend to use the fullness of her mouth, and consequently speak a bit more deeply, but reveal her subconscious preference to not speak too deeply (lest she sound mannish), simultaneously wanting to try to speak the language correctly, and play so completely around this harmonic middle ground, and be happy when she finds and stays there comfortably...

      It opens old feelings in me that are massively difficult to explain, as if she was awakening memories from when I was baby before I learned to speak, and was neurologically selecting phonemes to use and discard, and she's using the ones I discarded harmonically shifting back and forth with the ones I didn't, oscillating waves in my nervous system, stimulating use and growth of those cells in tandem with ones I already use, tickling me... I close my eyes as it's happening and I do shiver all over!

      [aside]
      Oh the things I think about in school. Two female German teachers who were good, but who were clearly exasperated by their jobs in the public school system. They would sit there and just speak sometimes, looking down. One was really good. But she left (good for her!) and was replaced by a dilettante, who was just looking for a job and not a career, whom I hated miserably for more reasons than the fact that she barely knew the language, or how to teach... it was bad enough the pedagogy was brainless, now the teacher was too.
      [/aside]

      French-speakers can only have a chance to sound beautiful when they're speaking English. Then they sound like free people. It is definitely charming when a young French girl is struggling with her English in the beginning stages, though. You are impressed by her desire to be free from her country's cultural-linguistic centrism, but she doesn't want to leave home...

      A Hindu speaking Japanese is also a pleasure to hear, if you know Japanese. Both languages are filled with that double consonant sound (the "k" in "bookkeeper") and are very syllabic, so the only accent they tend to have is a lack of Japanese pitch, which is coarse anyways.

      Most beautiful written language? I'd have to say Japanese... it's the only written language in the world that has both ideograms and syllabic characters (complexity and simplicity, respectively), while also allowing for roman letters from time to time. Very cosmopolitan. Especially considering Japan is historically such an isolated country. There was already spoken Japanese long before they started to have a written language. Buddhist monks needed one, though, so they borrowed what they knew of Chinese and messed with it. So there is a paradox of a lack of originality in the language and something that is distinctly Japanese. And it looks good written both up-and-down and side-to-side. And it's read right-to-left when written in the latter, and left-to-right in the former. Forces the brain to be limber.

      Originally posted by Rakkantekimusouka
      Chinese is the basis for Japanese --
      Not in spoken language. Most people think that because the writing looks the same that the languages are closely related. Not at all. Japanese is as different from Chinese as it is from English. No on believes me when I say this, but it comes from my native Japanese professor.

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      All language is beautiful in my opinion. I love English with a passion, but when I learn some more languages they will kind of be equal to me I guess. I'm fascinated by Russian at the moment, I just love the sounds and the meanings.

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      Originally posted by Ex Nine
      German, when it's being spoken by a skilled American woman. Native German-speakers use more of the back of the mouth than the front. Americans mostly use the front. So when a reasonably skilled American speaks German, she will tend to use the fullness of her mouth, and consequently speak a bit more deeply, but reveal her subconscious preference to not speak too deeply (lest she sound mannish), simultaneously wanting to try to speak the language correctly, and play so completely around this harmonic middle ground, and be happy when she finds and stays there comfortably... *

      It opens old feelings in me that are massively difficult to explain, as if she was awakening memories from when I was baby before I learned to speak, and was neurologically selecting phonemes to use and discard, and she's using the ones I discarded harmonically shifting back and forth with the ones I didn't, oscillating waves in my nervous system, stimulating use and growth of those cells in tandem with ones I already use, tickling me... I close my eyes as it's happening and I do shiver all over!

      [aside]
      Oh the things I think about in school. Two female German teachers who were good, but who were clearly exasperated by their jobs in the public school system. They would sit there and just speak sometimes, looking down. One was really good. But she left (good for her!) and was replaced by a dilettante, who was just looking for a job and not a career, whom I hated miserably for more reasons than the fact that she barely knew the language, or how to teach... it was bad enough the pedagogy was brainless, now the teacher was too.
      [/aside]

      French-speakers can only have a chance to sound beautiful when they're speaking English. Then they sound like free people. It is definitely charming when a young French girl is struggling with her English in the beginning stages, though. You are impressed by her desire to be free from her country's cultural-linguistic centrism, but she doesn't want to leave home...

      A Hindu speaking Japanese is also a pleasure to hear, if you know Japanese. Both languages are filled with that double consonant sound (the \"k\" in \"bookkeeper\") and are very syllabic, so the only accent they tend to have is a lack of Japanese pitch, which is coarse anyways.

      Most beautiful written language? I'd have to say Japanese... it's the only written language in the world that has both ideograms and syllabic characters (complexity and simplicity, respectively), while also allowing for roman letters from time to time. Very cosmopolitan. Especially considering Japan is historically such an isolated country. There was already spoken Japanese long before they started to have a written language. Buddhist monks needed one, though, so they borrowed what they knew of Chinese and messed with it. So there is a paradox of a lack of originality in the language and something that is distinctly Japanese. And it looks good written both up-and-down and side-to-side. And it's read right-to-left when written in the latter, and left-to-right in the former. Forces the brain to be limber.



      Not in spoken language. Most people think that because the writing looks the same that the languages are closely related. Not at all. Japanese is as different from Chinese as it is from English. No on believes me when I say this, but it comes from my native Japanese professor.

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      Originally posted by Roller
      I'm fascinated by Russian at the moment, I just love the sounds and the meanings.
      Oh! I'm not alone!

      *a single tear of joy rolls down my cheek*

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      Its not a language per say but I've always been fond of English Cockney Ryming slang.

      Its just fun to talk like that. It works by taking a word, lets say wife , and find a common phrase that has a ending word that rhymes with wife...like Trouble and Strife then taking the first word of that phrase , Trouble, and replacing it with wife......

      Ex: my trouble is at home ....


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      Originally posted by CryoDragoon
      the expert has spoken *
      Cryo, have you heard of a podcast out of Rotterdam called "Spacemusic?" The site is over at Spacemusic.nl, but it's in English. The guy's voice who runs it is starting to bridge my mind to the sounds of Dutch!

      Fetish, can you sing Henry VIII?

      Ame, I tried to learn Russian using tapes (it's never offered at my schools) but the sounds seemed to change every time a speaker said a word. It's hard to tell what pronunciation is crucial for understanding and what is not. Would you say that there is comparatively more relaxed precision in the pronunciation than in other languages? Maybe it's because I'm trying to listen too hard...

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      oh I forgot to add that my favorite language to sing in is German

      Singing french opera is ok, but hard NOT to sound like you're oding a Pepe le Pew immitation.

      Singing in Italian is hot and sexy, but a bit too boistrous for my palate.

      English opera is nice, but very difficult to articulate and be understood. Too many mixed vowels that change in phonation depending on pitch.

      But something about singing in German (I'm speaking in terms of languages when they are CLASSICALLY SUNG, not spoken ok? There is a huge difference)....and well, you don't have to over-articulate those throaty consonants, or you'll sound like Hitler. And the vowel sounds are pure like in italian. Just let them slide all over your tongue and it's daaaamn sexy. I'll see if I can find an mp3 of me singing in german and I'll upload a demonstration.

      Originally posted by Ex Nine
      German, when it's being spoken by a skilled American woman. Native German-speakers use more of the back of the mouth than the front. Americans mostly use the front. So when a reasonably skilled American speaks German, she will tend to use the fullness of her mouth, and consequently speak a bit more deeply,
      That's an excellent point, and actually, this is the approach that has to be taken when singing in german. The back of the throat sounds have to be moved forward or they don't project over an orchestra. This gives the language a much ligther and more focused quality to it, rather than the brutal stereotype that the spoken language often receives.

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      Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
      And the vowel sounds are pure like in italian. Just let them slide all over your tongue and it's daaaamn sexy.
      You saying tongue and slide in the same sentence is daaaamn sexy.
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      James...ich habe seeeeeeeehr viel Lust für dich

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      Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
      James...ich habe seeeeeeeehr viel Lust für dich
      Not sure what that means, but it's working...at getting me aroused.
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      Originally posted by Ex Nine
      Would you say that there is comparatively more relaxed precision in the pronunciation than in other languages?
      The pronounciation isn't that relaxed at all. It's just when people start speaking it quickly the letters can get jumbled together. Also, the pronouns are usually 1-5 letters long and are pronounced attatched to the words they modify. Intonation's huge, though, (with my favorite example being the word "mukah").

      Muká = flour
      Múka = torment

      He he... fun stuff. Also, it's hard to learn the grammar from tapes unless they're explicitly covering it. It's very detail/context oriented.

      NOTE: To people traveling to Russia who have never studied Russian: don't rely on travel guides. You'd be better off trying to find someone who speaks English than making a fool of yourself trying to pronounce the words.

      And Ophelia, what about Russian choirs? The bass of those men is just mind-blowing! Have you ever sang anything in Russian?

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      I gotta say japanese but swedish and english ain't so bad either.

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      Well japanese is my personal favorite but Im kind of biased because Ive been studying it for about 5years now and living in the japan for the past 2 but I studied some spanish in highschool el traje de bano!= the bathing suit!

      I mean what other language can have you say in ONE WORD...'running to get on the train before the doors close' ('kakekomijyousha') OR 'death during sexual intercourse with a woman' ('fukujyoushi' literal kanji meaning: over the stomach death) OR EVEN BETTER 'stealing into a girls bedroom in the middle of the night in order to make love' ('Yobai') ALL IN ONE WORD ... They must've had a big problem with the last one back in feudal japan since its so easy to say: 'Yobai' 'Yobai' 'Yobai'

      and my favorite proverb which I say in japanese all the time 'good medicine always tastes bitter' ('Ryoyaku kuchi ni nigashi') for its double meaning: people never want to hear good advice, and the literal one (yes, I like ecstasy which is super-bitter, so sue me )


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      Originally posted by SolSkye
      Well japanese is my personal favorite...

      I mean what other language can have you say in ONE WORD...'running to get on the train before the doors close' ('kakekomijyousha') OR 'death during sexual intercourse with a woman' ('fukujyoushi' literal kanji meaning: over the stomach death) OR EVEN BETTER 'stealing into a girls bedroom in the middle of the night in order to make love' ('Yobai') ALL IN ONE WORD * ... They must've had a big problem with the last one back in feudal japan since its so easy to say: 'Yobai' 'Yobai' 'Yobai'

      and my favorite proverb which I say in japanese all the time 'good medicine always tastes bitter' ('Ryoyaku kuchi ni nigashi') *for its double meaning: people never want to hear good advice, and the literal one (yes, I like ecstasy which is super-bitter, so sue me * )
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      I think you people haven't heard any languages from India. India has more than 200 languages. " Unity in diversity "

      Most sweet language is Tamil. ( Tamilnad, India )

      Most brilliant language is Sanskrit. ( Language of Hindu Gods )

      Most beautifull language is Malayalam. It has got the innnocence of Tamil and prestige of Sanskrit.

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      I think french is a nice language, and I'm not talking about the broken bullshit they speak here in Quebec, but the actual french... although most of the grammar rules in it are completely pointless and it's complicated as hell...
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      Well, I think Portuguese is very beautiful. But I'm bias because I lived down in Brasil for a couple years and just fell in love with the Portuguese language!

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      My mother tongue is the hungarian, but I really hate it! So boring language, it doesn't sound well, I hate the hungarian bad words, you know, like the english "f.cking", hungarians always uses bad words, there are lot of bad words... so... I love listening english, since I heard "everybody's changing" from the british Keane band. "Change" sounds beautiful. Much of english words are wonderful, so I think English is the most beautiful language is the whole world, I really really really love it! One day maybe I will be able to speak english like the English people. Or not, but I don't want to die in hungarian. Why not english is the only one language in the world??!!! God must speak egnlish too.

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