Beautiful languages
 

I'm not sure if this is the necessary place for this sort of topic, but you know, whatever.

What languages do you find the most beautiful?

I'm fond of French (of course), Portuguese, and German can be extremely pretty if spoken well. If you disagree, listen to Lacrimosa. I'm referring only to the way they sound, I only speak English and a small bit of German.

I find the english language the most beautiful actually. Both in writing and in speech.

Someone will probably kill me for this but....Finnish. I don't care who's speaking it, I die of joy when I hear it.

Dutch/German and I agree on the Finish remark.

And French in a French-Canadian accent = <3

Any language can be beautiful if spoken or written by someone with a gift of eloquence. But personally, I'm a bit partial to Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Italian. It's the most romantic-sounding language I can think of. I also like Hawaiian. It has a great flow to it.

French, definitely.

Second the German. I'm also partial to the way Sanskrit and classical Greek sound--in my head at least.

German and Japanese have always been my favorite languages. French is pretty cool too, and I'm roughly learning phrases in Latin.

This reminds me of a movie called "A Fish Called Wanda". In it, one of the main characters is intensely turned on whenever someone speaks to her in RUssian, Italian or any foreign language for that matter. V. Funny!

Japanese and Italian.

anybody ever hear Die Eier Von Satan by Tool? It's funny, because it's in German, and it's really really industrial and creepy. It's made to sound like some sort of Satanic war-banter or something. But it's really just a recipe for deviled eggs.

German and Farsi

I like Spanish and Italian most. Although any language really, spoken with eloquence and suavity, is beautiful.

German...but im a bit biast.

I love French, Russian, and actually English.

Those are the most beautiful in my opinion. Especially Russian.

I find Italian and Spanish to be the two most beautiful languages (and the sexiest) in the world.

Well Im learning japanese now,and I think of it as a beautiful language.It's deep and complex,and theres alot of versitility to it.

I'm actually a bit fond of true old english. (as in anglo saxon)

Hear hear! Especially when they get all alliterative in their poetry.

I agree, Old English is really nice as well as French, German, Itallian, Finnish, and Spanish.

Are you serious??? That's too funny. I am going to have to check that out.

I've learned a little Japanese having lived in Tokyo for 5 months and I'm hoping to go to Uni next year to learn it full time (joint with Linguistics if I get my way).

There's a neatness and a tidiness about Japanese that I find fascinating. Yeh It's my favourite. As for being beautiful... certainly in its written form.

Ha yes. It used to scare me, then I found out what it was actually saying. It's awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpePJ5MJrJ0
(there's a video clip with Stop motion by the Brother Quay)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl-OZ3breE

that is the Lord's prayer in Old English. Very... eerie.. It sounds like you should be able to understand it.

Latin! And old Norwegian. Around the viking era. Japanese is way overrated IMO. I also love Quenya, but I'm not sure if it counts. Finnish isn't bad either.

Oh, and I don't speak any of the above =/ But someday!