I do, what do you think?
i speak mandarin, and since ive grown up with ALOT of koreans, i find that the korean language soulds really nice... but i especially think japanese is the best... but after learning the language, its not as great anymore and i find japanese really choppy and retarded... i like korean the best... i often try to speak beijing mandarin, since im half shanghai/taiwanese, to make it sound more like korean... i dont know, someone tell me if beijing madarin sounds more like korean... btw i think cantonese and veitmanese sound the exact same, except canton sounds worse... but they bnoth sound horrible and annoying...
I think japanese sounsd retarded. I respect the language and wouldn't mind learning it. But in the middle of a sentance they have to throw in an english word and add "-o" or "-u" to the end.
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I hate nigger lol
im korean, but i've lived in china,beijing/shanghai for 10 years... :)... i dont know... the first time i heard it, it sounded like "sha, zhe, bu, shi, zha" use alot of tongue rolling... then i started to like it, sounds smooth and i listen to mandarin music really often... songs like S.H.E, jolin tsai, wilber pan, lee hom, sissi dai, jay chou but im glad korean music is getting so popular... boa,big band, suju... oh and mandarin suju-m but anyways since im korean, go korea, best language!
I think most people here like Japanese only because they watch a lot of anime. It's really not that nice of a language.
I hate japanese. grammatically.
I think Japanese sounds like French. And hearing French feels like there's somebody licking through your face..brrr.
I like Cantonese because I believe it has preserved more features from Middle or Ancient Chinese than Mandarin such as the final consonants. However my family actually speaks the dialect of Toisan/Hoisan which is a little bit different from Standard Cantonese.
>>33
My Cantonese teacher accused many of her students of speaking with a Toisan accent--she heard Toisan everywhere! Toisan's a LOT different from Cantonese, though. Only five tones, and a voiceless lateral fricative!
Cantonese sounds terrible to my ears, the hideous ping-pong noise is too much.
The reason I wanted to study Japanese was because I thought it sounded beautiful.
The reason I got into anime was due to the studies.
Can't stand Mandarin. Sounds like people can't use their mouths quite right.
And that thing where Beijing speakers throw the "r" on the end of things is probably the most annoying thing ever.
CANTONESE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ANGRY around here. So I can't compare it with Mandarin, since they only switch to Mandarin to be all gentle with us foreigners.
Mandarin sounds like you've got something stuck in your throat and you're pushing the sounds through your teeth. Cantonese sounds more laid back and expressive.
Who the fuck are you cunts to say which language is the worst, you cunts probally dont even speak another language apart from your fuckin engrish
in this thread asian people and a few white nerds
Japanese is entirely unlike French, even our Quebec French. The phonotactics differ greatly.
French is more harsh, mainly because of the "r" (voiced uvular fricative). Japanese just flows on the tongue.
Japanese is ok but there's too many final u for my taste.
Cantonese is annoying, VERY ANNOYING.
Mandarin varies, depends on dialect.
Korean sounds kinda like Beijingian.
>>41
This is a thread about opinions. Please respect everyone's point of view. I'm sure you hold somethings close to you which others do not agree with.
no. i learned japanese so i could play visual novels.
>>37
i agree with him french are language that sounds more class
whereas japanese and cantonese you can only show-off to your friend that you can go other country without language problems
No I don't think they sound cool at all. German is the coolest language in my opinion. I also only learned Japanese so I could play there visual novel, but I don't particularly like the language.
Do any of you guys REALLY know any of these languages? I mean can you really explain its structures, writing and sound systems. Can you read newspapers written in any of these languages, or at least able to read cook books?
I'm very doubtful.
"i agree with him french are language that sounds more class" - - how can you really say that, without TRULY mastering, well both French and Japanese or Cantonese.
For those think Japanese sounds really quick - you're all kidding, right? You only feel like that because you don't know the language, LOL.
No wonder American, especially those with Anglo-German decent tend to be so ignorant when come to foreign languages.
Korean sounds horrible to me.... sounds like ppl are gonna fight each other sometimes.
Other times it sounds really whining and grates on my ears.. when ppl speak korean around me i can't concentrate.
Japanese and Chinese are ok I guess although neither sound great.There's one chinese language that is annoying I think cantonese but not entirely sure.
Italian is the most beautiful sounding language.
Of the Chinese languages, Mandarin sounds stuffy and stuck-up while Cantonese sounds choppy but is the language of the people.
我真的觉得韩语、广东话和日语听上去给人的感觉丝毫不一样。应该是和各自的文化底蕴有关吧。我会听广东话。每次听到都觉得很温暖、很舒服。像极了当地人。日语让我觉得很小心严谨，发音很短促。很利落。但是很难让我觉得舒服。韩语，我真的不想多说了。我一度很喜欢，但是了解的多了，就越觉得韩国人有些奇怪的狭隘。实际上，我现在一点都不喜欢。
>>53
您是否讲广东？ (Sorry, this is a machine translation... Are you a native speaker of Cantonese?) Also, why do you not like Korean anymore?
i like korean and japanese.
to me chinese just sounds loud and annoying
All the lauguages are nice,
No one can say which is nice or bad.
To me, there are all the same.
Random intervene! Woohoo!
As a person who can speak chinese, mandarine, english and malay, I could give some honest opinion, LoL. (From the combination of the language i know, you should know which country I originate from, LoL.)
Cantonese, even within citizen and between cantonese, we admits that cantonese somehow felt like it sounded more rude compared to all other languages, LoL.
There are times where I felt korean and japanese are similar to chinese/cantonese.
For example, japanese: sekai (world) is cantonese (saekai)
Korean: junbi (ready) is cantonese (junbei)
These are just examples of their similarity.
Not to mention that japanese uses kanji and korean uses hanja, which is same as chinese/cantonese.
Cheers!
> There are times where I felt korean and japanese are similar to chinese/cantonese.
> japanese: sekai (world)
> Korean: junbi (ready)
No wonder since Japanese and Korean have gotten a lot of loanwords from Chinese.
I have to say, I think out of the Asian languages, Japanese and Korean sound the most pleasing and similar to each other. I have to admit Chinese (both Mandarin and Canto) gets on my nerves. From shopping in Seoul and Toyko, and hearing Japanese and Korean, it sounds nice! but then I hear Chinese and well...I want to get out of the store as soon as possible. I also find that Chinese-Chinese people are more rude than the average Asian...
Boy those, "Shur, Shu, Chi, SHUh" sounds really grate my ears.
Viet, and Thai are not so pleasant either...
Mongolian is aite.
~Italian and Spanish (Spain) not Mexican or Puerto Rican... sound beautiful.
I am Canadian, and I have dated girls of three nationals: Koreans, Japanese, and Taiwanese. From my experience, I must say the sound of the language most depends on who it's spoken by and it also reflects the attitudes and zeitgeist of the country. Japanese are extremely polite; their language doesn't even have offensive or expletive words. They never raise their voice unless they have to. On the other end of spectrum, there's mainland chinese, who don't have regard for what others think in the public. So one might perceive them as annoying and rude, but it's just part of their culture. In the middle there's a mix of both: Korean. I've stayed in Japan for about half year, and when I first arrived in Korea, I couldn't really make out whether they were speaking Japanese or Korean. As far as Cantonese is concern, I used to hate it, but I like it better than mandarin.
ma po dou fu! away!!!
I LOVE KOREAN~ Japanese is cool too. Cantonese gets a bit weird at times but is rather interesting to some extent. ^^
At first I thought that japanese is very strange and complicated, after the first 6 months I started to vomit just thinking about japanese(not because it was complicated) but now I find japanese the best language ever existed.
cantonese is one of the ugliest languages i've ever heard.
wow I can't believe there's ppl that actually enjoy listening to Korean?? I don't know about you but to me Korean has the distinction of being both extremely rough and angry while at the same time being incredibly whiny. I don't even know how that's possible but it is.
Cantonese sounds awful to me as well.
Japanese sounds too femenine for my tastes. But overall I would say Japanese and Mandarin sound the most "elegant" however you want to put it.
And don't even get me started on those SE asian languages like tagalog, or Thai, Vietnamese etc.
Overall to be honest asian languages just aren't that nice sounding.
>>63
What? That doesn't seem to make any sense.
A fire broke out on a ship. The captain, wanting to make the passengers dive into the ocean with smoothness, said:
to the English, "A true gentleman would dive in a time like this"
to the German, "The rules say to jump overboard"
to the Italian, "The lady of fine proportions just went overboard"
to the American, "If you jump, you will be a hero"
to the Russian, "The bottle of vodka was swept away; it's still within reach"
to the French, "Please do not go overboard"
to the Japanese, "Everyone else has already made the jump"
to the South Korean, "The Japanese has already made the jump"
to the Chinese, "Those fish look pretty tasty"
to the North Korean, "Now is your chance to seek asylum"
Sailor: "Captain! The Korean still remains!"
Captain: "Leave him alone."
Sailor: "Why do you say so!"
Captain: "He will be nothing but trouble if he survives. I'll be demanded compensation for wetting his clothes"
>>And don't even get me started on those SE asian languages like tagalog, or Thai, Vietnamese etc.
This kind of thing always surprises me. OK, you don't like the way any of them sound. That's fine. But I find it strange that it seems appropriate to you to group them together. Ignoring the fact that we're talking about three unrelated language families, they don't even have similar phonetic inventories... essentially, they sound nothing like one another! First and perhaps most obviously, Tagalog's got no tones. Thai and Vietnamese both have tones, but very little else in common. Viet's mostly monosyllabic, which makes the rhythm of speech completely distinct from that of Thai. The vowel systems are also completely distinct--Vietnamese has four vowels not found in Thai, and Thai has at least three, perhaps four, not found in Vietnamese.
I love Mandarin, especialy when it is pronounced by scholar officials in historical drama.
korean is definitely the best language. daehanmikguk saranghae!! i have been learning it for a while but its still soo hard xD japanese is second. i do find chinese a refreshing break from korean and japanese though
i think korean sounds cool but the women somehow always sound a bit whiny to me.. the pop music is super popular (maybe thanks to the prettyboys though)
japanese sounds pretty badass if you ask me, although some of it is just funnily pronounced english :P probably one of the coolest languages out there
mandarin makes people sound wise and confucius-y and cantonese is really choppy but is probably one of the more modern/trendy languages (like jap) because of the ever-changing slang and stuff. ive heard that if you leave hong kong for a year then the way you talk will be kind of old fashioned. i think chinese might be the hardest to learn though..
i love japanese!im learning it right now, its pretty cool. somehow i love how korean sounds, sometimes it reminds of french LOL and kpop is just so awesome all the hot singersxD the music is pretty gooood.. chinese idk i prefer japanese and korean:)
i am sitting to this korean couple who one of them is my roomate. I think They are talking normally though, but it sounds to me like they are in big fight, I can't concentrate of my studying much, Korean language is too harsh, annoying, and lack of manner which is nothing to be praise of at all.
Whether or not a language sounds pretty or ugly is determined largely by the way in which a person speaks. With that caveat in mind, I think that Japanese sounds nice, that Korean sounds slightly less nice, and that Chinese (either mandarin or cantonese, not like I could tell the difference) sounds really ugly. It's hard to listen to Chinese without thinking, "How the FUCK do these people make these sounds?!" If I learned the language, I'd probably think differently, but Chinese is one of the most alien-sounding languages I've ever heard.
German can also sound nice to me.