Languages that sound bad

TheGirl   Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:42 pm GMT
I don't like Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian (unless it's opera) and RP English (unless it's in Harry Potter or a film adaptation of a 19th century novel). Which languages sound bad to your ear?
Caspian   Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:06 pm GMT
Well that's me stumped. RP English is my native language, I'm learning Mandarin and Italian and like the sound of Cantonese.
Andi   Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:30 pm GMT
Languages like English with lots of vowels sound bad, like molasses and diarrhoea spilling all over.
Flemish   Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:46 pm GMT
French and Italian.
Guest   Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:14 am GMT
Arabic and Hebrew sound awful.

Norwegian, Croatian, Finnish, French and German (only North of the river Main) sound best.
---   Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:18 am GMT
all the languages of India.
guest   Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:44 pm GMT
American English. I don't like the laziness and nasality of it.
d-fens   Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:41 pm GMT
British English, because it's too nasal and squeezy. It just doesn't sound good.
Franco   Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:39 pm GMT
Both American and British English sound bad. Too much "potato-in-you-mouth" sounding.
~   Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:16 am GMT
Vietnamese
Forpresser   Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:19 am GMT
French and Vietnamese sound dreadful to me

Swedish too
ID   Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:35 pm GMT
Spanish period
cppgeek   Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:46 pm GMT
Esperanto
youth   Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:44 pm GMT
chinese- beacuse it is too tonal
hindi- just dont like it but strangely formal urdu sounds beautiful
Colette   Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:04 pm GMT
Spanish, Serbian and most slavonic languages. Chinese too