<p>Vietnamese.</p>
<p>It sounds like their vocal chords are in their nose.</p>
<p>haha. whoever said hindi is an ugly language couldnt be more wrong, its beautiful. now gujurati is an ugly language.</p>
<p>Anyone seen "Barry Lyndon"? It made German seem so romantic.</p>
<p>i agree, every language has its ups and owns. </p>
<p>personally i think french is a little snobbish</p>
<p>why is there a thread on the ugliness of languages? </p>
<p>it's a direct slur on the people who speak that language. there are no ugly languages, period. the purpose of language is the beauty of communication--it's an art, no matter what an individual viewer or listener thinks it is, based on their own personal biases. </p>
<p>besides, you can't just take the sounds into account. some believe English to be harsh and gutteral due to its Teutonic roots. However, the sheer number of words in English give it nuance and complexity on a different dimension than its cadenzas on the lips and in the ears.</p>
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why is there a thread on the ugliness of languages?</p>
<p>it's a direct slur on the people who speak that language. there are no ugly languages, period. the purpose of language is the beauty of communication--it's an art, no matter what an individual viewer or listener thinks it is, based on their own personal biases.
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<p>No kidding that they're all art forms. That doesn't stop some of them from sounding terrible though.</p>
<p>Now if anybody's seen that old war movie Zulu, then they'd really know what an awesome language is.</p>
<p>Frisch weht der Wind<br>
Der Heimat zu
Mein Irisch Kind
Wo weilest du?
(T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland) </p>
<p>Demandez-vous : le mouton oui ou non a-t-il mang</p>
<p>i've seen a couple people post spanish and french as the worst sounding...</p>
<p>they ARE known as romance languages for a reason (besides they're origin of course).</p>
<p>why are they called "romance" languages?</p>
<p>because horny European men enjoy seducing young American women with them</p>
<p>and why do they usually work?</p>
<p>I don't think it's the seductive movement of the moustaches while speaking those languages.</p>
<p>lol the punjabi language is probably the harshest sounding language. i don't hate it, but if a white person were to hear it, they'd think its rather harsh...especially if they caught a cursing/screaming conversation lol</p>
<p>hebrew... it always sounds like they wnat to hawk a loogie right in your face. lol, i remember cringing back in the bar mitzvah days.
german... harsh!
russian... a little, brutish to my ears.
certain american english accents too.</p>
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<<haha. whoever="" said="" hindi="" is="" an="" ugly="" language="" couldnt="" be="" more="" wrong,="" its="" beautiful.="" now="" gujurati="" language.="">>
as a native speaker of gujarati, i must say that i am highly offended...i agree that hindi is a beautiful language, my favorite, in fact; but gujarati is no less beautiful...if you were to meticulously compare the two, you might be surprised to find out that they're very similar</haha.></why></p>
<p>I like the Oolu Tribal African Dialect.</p>
<p>n!or !clk!ah</p>
<p>I love you. the ! are clicks made from your mouth. </p>
<p>jk i made that up. DUH</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>Whoever said Vietnamese is a nasty sounding language...
I'm gonna have to agree, and this is coming from a Vietnamese guy. Sounds pretty grating, brutish, etc. French, the language that Vietnamese was adapted from, sounds a whole lot better.</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>That's pretty tough to admit when you're comin right from it.</p>
<p>You should be proud of yourself, because yeah, heh, I totally agree, Vietnamese is not pretty...</p>
<p>German and Chinese are also disgusting. sorry. actually hendi can be nice (some times) but most of the time it sounds like a ghost is howling.</p>
<p>out of all the asian-chinese languages I heard japanese is the nicest. there's not so much "ching choong" in it and more "seekaa seki" (more stretched out tones as opposed to those TIGHT, short tones in chinese/viet..)</p>
<p>has anyone actually heard Taiwanese before?</p>
<p>heres a sample
mms://media.settv.net/dmusic/may<em>2002/may2002</em>02.asf</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/taiwanese/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/taiwanese/index.htm</a></p>
<p>let me hear you ratings of this language</p>
<p>baller: I don't know what version of the Chinese language it is that you've been listening to. I've been speaking mandarin and shanghainese for the past seventeen years of my life, and I've been to various areas of China, all with their distinct regional accents. </p>
<p>I have never heard a "ching chook" anywhere. Generally it's beginner chinese that emphasizes the staccato syllables of each. and. ev.er.y. word. When you're fluent (and actually speaking Chinese as opposed to kung-fu-movie-chinese) you get unbroken cadences that are "stretched out." </p>
<p>You also have to take individual voice patterns into account, as well as individual emotion. There are some people with dulcet tones that can make the most "ugly"l of languages sweet. There are others with high shrill voices that can destroy the most "beautiful" languages. </p>
<p>And by the way, please don't use words like "disgusting." Adding "sorry" afterwards doesn't cut it.</p>
<p>tebro...i agree...no language is disgusting
please consider how people who are native speakers of these languages that you're calling "disgusting" "harsh" and what not feel when you say that :)</p>