Which is your most favorite and least favorite language?

[Annamariah]

Isn't there a large minority of Swedish living in Finland? But indeed, Finnish is not a Scandinavian language. It belongs to one group with Hungarian, but allegedly those two can't understand each other either (not surprising, seeing as they are so far away from each other and have probably developed on their own for most of the time). What we were probably thinking of was Danish and Swedish which are so similar that the two can just talk to each other. Danish people also crop up in Swedish dramas without being subtitled (such as Wallander). I'm not sure whether Norwegian is similar or understandable, although Sweden and Norway were one kingdom for a long time (but that's saying nothing, I mean, look at Hungarian and German...).

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are all very much alike (Icelandic too, though it's the most different among the bunch). I can understand both Danish and Norwegian in their written form quite well, since I know Swedish. Hungarian is related to Finnish, but the similarities are mostly in structures and grammar, not really in the vocabulary, so I wouldn't understand any Hungarian.

About five percent of Finland's population are Swedish-speaking Finns. That means that they have Swedish as their mother tongue, even though they are Finnish (not Swedish immigrants). And because of that five percent, all the rest of us have Swedish as a compulsory subject at school even in universities. (That five percent also has to learn Finnish, but at least to me that makes more sense, since Finnish IS the language of the huge majority.)

[The Kid]

One of my favorites is spanish. I heard it most of my life, even if I am only a mediocre speaker. I grew up hearing Mexican spanish, but I do love to hear the spaniards speak with their cute accents and vosotros familiarity.

But the best ones must be native American languages - Nahuatl and Quechua especially. (I know they are totally unrelated, I'm just listing them together). Maya is nice too, but I have only heard it a few times.

There are no languages I dislike, though Tagalog (I think I spelled it right) comes pretty close.

[kaethe]

My favorite is definitely English. Direct, uncomplicated and full of echoism. Just beautyful!



"Favorite: Austrian German. There is something about a light and flowy form of such a guttoral dialect that just hits the spot and is beautiful so much. Listen to Ode to Joy or 99 Luftballons by Nena, and you can see for yourself."

Well, 99 Luftballons and Ode an die Freude are not Austrian German or do you know a special Austrian Version?

By the way: Is there anyone who could tell me how to get this "Originally Posted by-frame" to mark the quotes I´m referring to?

[faithosaurus]

My favorite is Spanish, but that's because I can speak it. I think I like it more than English, even though that's my first language.

I can't really think of any languages I don't like, but if I had to choose, I'd probably go with Russian.

[Sea]

By the way: Is there anyone who could tell me how to get this "Originally Posted by-frame" to mark the quotes I´m referring to?

At the bottom right of the post you want to respond to you can click the "Reply With Quote" button, or you can just use the QUOTE /QUOTE start tag and end tag. If you want to quote multiple people or multiple times I would suggest using copy and paste.

[kaethe]

At the bottom right of the post you want to respond to you can click the "Reply With Quote" button, or you can just use the QUOTE /QUOTE start tag and end tag. If you want to quote multiple people or multiple times I would suggest using copy and paste.

Thanks a lot, Sea! That should help...

[Galvin500]

My favorite languages are French and Russian. I speak Russian as well, and I agree, it sounds so intense and cool. French is just such a gorgeous language, and though I don't speak it I love to hear it.

My least favorite languages are Chines and Japanese. I really don't like hearing the fast, staccato-type languages they have.

[tonywalt]

My favourite is Italian.

Least favourite is Ibo (and various other languages found in Nigeria).

[hannah_arendt]

My favourite are Spanish and English.

[Ecurb]

I like Sindarin.

[Darcy88]

My favourite is Spanish. Don't have a least favourite.

[symphony]

Oh dear, I pop a favorite something every few hours. As for languages, where do I start? I've been really obsessed with Gaelic sounds these days. I heard this song called bothan airigh am braigh raithneach recently and been trying to get a feel of how to pronounce gaelic sounds ever since. I can speak only one and a half language myself (my first language is bengali, then of course there's english), but I'm fascinated by sounds and languages. I try to sing in languages I don't speak, by hearing them over and over again.

So while we're at it, anyone here know any gaelic to help this poor soul learn some of it?

[Pensive]

Favorite: French.
Least favorite: Also French, because I have no patience for learning it.

[symphony]

https://soundcloud.com/symphonied/my-gaelic-attempt

Can't anyone see just how desperate I am? Someone just teach me the damned language already!