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Post #418343 - Reply To (#417609) by Pupok
Post #418343 - Reply To (#417609) by Pupok
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15 years ago
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British english lol..yeah..it's like a royalty talking..)so pompous and official...)

Ah, you should check out the cockney accent and the northern ones too then - noooo way would anyone mistake them for being posh. Ah, I blame the TV shows - the Brits always speak like the Queen on (most) American shows. I do love Ricky Gervais' accent though! But I wouldn't know which exact one it is - there's like a zillion of those in the UK.

I'm a British born Chinese myself so I'm fluent in both english and chinese. I love listening to Japanese and Korean, plus some of the words do sound similar to chinese. Japanese, in particular, sounds so beautiful and fluid - it just flows well together. A little cold and clinical at times though.

I'm afraid I'm not a fan of Polish, however. It sounds so loud and brash to me. Just not a pretty sounding language.

When it comes to French, the ones I heard whilst in Paris did sound rather 'snobbish'. On the other hand, when I hear some french female singer, their voice sounds so soothing and melodic^^


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15 years ago
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I speak Canadian English, which is clean and very fast
(in most parts of the country).
American English sounds very strange to me sometimes. Pronunciation for many words is different, and even the spelling.
Actually, the British also speak a very different form of English too... I love the way they sound.

Dutch always sounds nice to me; my mother is dutch so I grew up hearing it a lot, and I understand bits of it often because the accent is so familiar.

German sounds like a rough/harsher version of Dutch to me 🤣

I learned some French: we were required to take it in school, I learned French for ballet, and then I spent some time in France: it is much more pompous than British English to me. I simply don't care for it much.

Italian is very smooth ~ What a lovely way to put words together.

I like how Korean sounds, but I don't have enough experience to talk about any other Asian languages.

I've known a few people with really wonderful voices in an African language, but I don't know which one?


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I speak dutch, which is.. very normal to me?

french, but I don't like speaking french cause i always feel like it's such a cocky language, when there are french people in the same space as me and I hear them talk I always feel like they think better of themselves, just because of the language. (sorry for generalizing)

english, also sounds normal to me.

german, it sounds very harsh , imo.

a friend of mine is russian, to me it always sounds like he's barfings or something when he's talking. it sonds pretty weird to me.


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Japanese - bright
Chinese - messy
Korean - whiney
Vietnamese - polite
European English - very polite
American English - lazy
Hick English - sloppy
French - classy
Russian, German - choppy
French - very classy
Italian - classy
Spanish - dunno


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Dutch is my mother tongue.

I Speak english, which I think is a must in modern society.

I also speak German and French (the last one far from fluent though).


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-French-polite!!! And somehow VERY very amazingly romantic
-Cantonese: Super harsh and angry
-English-my norm language
-Mandarin-my norm language
-Indian- Exotic
-Spanish-Exotically cool
-Japanese- CUTE! <3
-Italian- romantic
-Indonesian- sounds like english gibberish (kiddish)


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