What’s your least favourite language

[Tablet County]

French.

I told you France sucks.

Not a fan of Mandarin, even when sung. Some other languages I don't like sound good when you sing them, but a lot of popular Chinese songs just sound like the Pinky and the Brain version of Yoko Ono.

Cantonese supremacy.

 

[WonderWino]

Hebrew. Sounds like someone constantly clearing their throat.

Hey now don't go ragging on mel brooks

Definitely going with french. But whoever invented welsh spelling deserves a kick in the balls

 

[innocent jogger]

My least favorite language would have to be Java.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

English spoke with an indian accent

 

[SIMIΔN]

Cantonese supremacy.

Not a fan of Mandarin, even when sung. Some other languages I don't like sound good when you sing them, but a lot of popular Chinese songs just sound like the Pinky and the Brain version of Yoko Ono

Cantonese is worse.

 

[VanyaMotorbike]

I always thought Portuguese was really ugly. Any time I watch Brazilian pron I have to mute it

 

[Tablet County]

Cantonese is worse.

Is this supposed to be a negative example? 'Cause while the music sucks it sounds fine to me.

 

[Waifu Days]

Uruguayan Spanish. All the "y" sounds now go "sh" and I don't find vos cute.

There are times that I hate how soft Swedish sounds.

 

[The Feline Solution]

Romani and Urdu. I am forced to hear both daily.

 

[Not a bee]

I'm not a fan of Spanish

 

[JinxWinx]

I can name two off the top of my head... I cannot stand French or Dutch.

 

[Lazy Printer]

Latin american spanish.

 

[Baboeshka]

I can't stand hearing Australian sometimes. You can blame Daniel Andrews for that with his threats towards the unvaccinated during covid. The accent immediately reminds me of him and pisses me off.

I can name two off the top of my head... I cannot stand French or Dutch.

As a dutch person myself I agree. Nederlands is one of the ugliest sounding languages ever.

 

[Devout Muslim]

Not a fan of Mandarin, even when sung. Some other languages I don't like sound good when you sing them, but a lot of popular Chinese songs just sound like the Pinky and the Brain version of Yoko Ono.

It sounds like you’re describing traditional opera, which borders on yodelling with how far they take some of the notes IMO.

Even so, I’ve never really associated Mandarin pop music with shrill notes. Does this song sound bad to you? It’s a classic Singaporean Mandarin song.

 

[Overly Serious]

I see French mentioned a lot. I only speak it a little so I look to more proficient speakers to correct me but in my basic ability with the language I find it much more limiting than I thought. Example, some English and their equivalents in French:

I study / J’étudie.
I do study / J’étudie
I am studying / J’étudie

Now with tone of voice to convey the varying emphasis between the examples the subtle differences in meaning are easier to show but I think if you're a native English speaker you'll pick up on them from just the writing. The first conveys that studying is an activity you do, the second is the same but with a connotation of refuting the opposite. E.g. "I've never seen you studying" / "I do study!" And the third of course describes states what you are doing right now.

You can swap in whatever very you like really: "I garden" (describing a hobby); "I do garden" (Refuting the negative), "I do gardening" (answer a question such as what do you for fun, similar to the first); "I am gardening" (why do you think I am covered in soil?).

French doesn't seem to have that but it may be that I'm just too basic in my knowledge. What I found in general with French is that the vocabulary is so much more limited. Example, we say moth and butterfly. Too different things. They say papillon and papillon de la nuit. That must be why French people talk so quickly - they have to use more words to say the same thing. I don't hate the language, I don't know it well enough to judge it fairly. But these are my impressions. I also found Portuguese and Spanish a bit limited in the same way. Russian in some ways feels like the closest to English in a way, in that it is also very complex and seems to have a big old vocabulary. Or maybe it just feels that way as a student.

Mandarin somebody mentioned and I actually quite like it. It's very logical and consistent compared to most languages, which I guess is what happens when you have a very long unified history and not too many people successfully invading you from dissimilar language groups. It is the poster child for why Phonetic alphabets are better, though.

It's not really "hate", but you cannot convince me that Welsh isn't just an elaborate hoax.

I can. By introducing you to the Welsh.

 

[NoReturn]

It sounds like you’re describing traditional opera, which borders on yodelling with how far they take some of the notes IMO.

Even so, I’ve never really associated Mandarin pop music with shrill notes. Does this song sound bad to you? It’s a classic Singaporean Mandarin song.

No, that stuff is nice, you were right about the opera.

I know part of it is the different way of singing, too, kind of like how Hindi has a different scale than western music:

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

Vietmase. Japanese. chinese koraen african jewish jewish jewsih french arabic

 

[Bionicle of War]

Somali and AAVE.

 

[Brain Power]

I WILL NOT learn mapudungun. Fucking dead and shoehorned everywhere ooga booga language not even natives speak.

 

[Huh what?]

English spoke with an indian accent

My blood pressure instantly spikes whenever I have to call customer service and there's an Indian accent on the other line. It makes me not want to do business with that company.