In your opinion, what is the best sounding foreign language?
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Russian.  I like the way that the words can sound melodic or harsh depending on the tone of the speaker.  Other languages, like French, sound beautiful even if you tell someone to f$%^ off.  Germans can say "I love you," and I want to run for the hills, it sounds so harsh.  But Russian can adjust to the mood of the speaker.
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It sounds like russian
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I'd have to say Melanesian. I don't know why, but it sounds right.
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german and french , love.Although the german they speak sounds like a mix between french german and dutch.it is understandeble though.
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I love other languages.  All of them, really.  I like to hear them spoken in groups.  It flows so naturally, as though you should understand every word, but you don't.  I tried to speak German while living abroad, but I was with many americans and we'd only speak German when we were drunk and in class.  I was lucky - I could speak it more than most.
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Hmmm I can speak of french as I'm french. It's said to be a quite hard language and it really is, lots of exceptions in grammar, many problems of tenses. Well it's also known as a beautiful language and maybe it comes from the fact it's difficult.\nSpanish is close to french I think complexity is quite the same or slightly easier (I've learned it for 3 years). It's a nice language that sounds good, like there's sun in their language :)\nChinese is much more simple regarding tenses and grammar (my girlfriend is chinese) but one very hard thing is they have sounds we don't, they make difference between two sounds just from the tone where we don't really hear any difference, I think it's a question of habit. Of course the writing is also harder, there's a way to write with normal letters too...\n\nRegarding usefulness I think chinese is a language that will be interesting in the few next years as China is opening more, french can be interesting too and I think french can provide a better population coverage than spanish if you choose between those two...\n\nSo good luck in your learning and I hope I provided interesting inofmrations to guide you in your choice :)
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English, Spanish, french
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What language to take, you mean? French, probably.
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I grew up speaking English and I have at various times tried to learn Spanish, Italian, Latin, German, and Hebrew.  In my opinion, Spanish was the easiest and German was the hardest.
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English English is the one I prefer.  It is by all means the proper way of speaking it since the language first developed in Britain.  Oh yeah, I love the accents as well.
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italian although you will also see german and other languages from europe (mostly italian though)
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Choose the language that you are the most passionate about.  \nIf you love Italian hillsides and the beauty of Tuscany choose Italian!  \nIf you want to hold St. Peterburg in the palm of your hand and squeeze it so hard the juice runs into youir heart choose Russian!\nEtc., Etc
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I speak English, Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French; studied Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese and Farsi...\n\nI can't even BEGIN to list the advantages that weren't even mentioned in the previous replies. But just for the sake of showing some effort, here are a couple of things that make you really appreciate understanding (and using, eventually) a foreign language:\n\nI. Humour (you learn to "get" all the jokes). This is also the shortest way to make friends and become accepted anywhere. Also gives a profounds insight into the culture. Understanding another culture's humour is 70% of the culture per se already. Usually, humour is applied to the most important issues in a society.. Once you get that, you're in.\n\nII. Money.. Obviously. I don't think anyone can deny the fact that languages are "useless" in the INFORMATION AGE. \n\nIII. Respect -- to me personally, knowing a language (in any and all of its aspects) has become a source of healthy self-esteem and significant satisfaction in respect to my social status and interactions.\n\nIV. It's SEXY -- if you know how to use it, it can be the most potent aphrodisiac served on the most succulent plate of all: the tongue ;) I would advise every one to serve themselves in that sense.. ;)\n\nV. It's intelligent -- the philosophy that everyone "educated" already speaks English, so there's no point in learning other languages is the most self-destructive one that a culture can present to the world. It is a philosophy of arrogance and ignorance. The worst thing one can do is not learn. Learning, of whatever you want, is the definition of an intelligent being. The important thing is to avoid following boring, conventional methods when you study... Learning is all about innovation, about finding new things and information, about enriching your ways. So, there's no reason why you should go with the established system. You should experiment and try different little ways and find the one that is most pleasant to you :)\n\nOn this positive note, I bid you good night B-)\n\n\nVeronika
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i had french, it is an interesting language..\ndepends on u , whether u want to experiment something new or not
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Spanish, easy on the tongue, flows like a song, very easy to pick up, and is only second to the US, all over the world. Will definately not be a waste of time. I Took french all through high school, can't remember a word because its used very little here.\nSpanish on the other hand is as important as english. It is my third laguage, truly a wonderful language to learn and easy too.\nGood Luck
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Personally I think Latin languages (French, Italian, Spanish), would sound most musical to Western ears. \n\nHowever, scientifically, some Asian languages, for example, Vietnamese, are much more musical - there will be 4-5 different words differing only by the tonality of one sound. So, you actually have to sing the words as you speak!\n\nP.S. Since I can't reply to your e-mail question whether I am a linguist or a musicologist, I add my answer here - no, I am none of them. My knowledge is based on watching a couple of TV programs about it and personal interactions with people from those parts of the world.
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Spanish is the sexiest, German is the worst. But in terms of being cool, Japanese tops them all!!