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Firstly, yiddish is fantastic. :D i only know a few terms, but they have terms for things you just NEED, like tojus, chutzpah, and oy vey!

 

I also say that German is quite nice. It can be a little too precise on occasion but there we are.

 

Steve, English spoken in South African also sounds threatening. It is the cadence. For example:

 

Try saying the phrases

 

"I've got to say I love your hair"

&

"i'm afraid I have to kill you."

 

In an English RP, an English Australian, and an English South African accent. The aussie sounds like he's joking on both occasions, and the SAfrican sounds like he wants to kill you on both occasions.

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I've always thought English spoken with a South African accent was quite unpleasant, but that's most likely the political associations rather than any quality of the sound itself.

Nope, that is definitely the accent. :rolleyes:

 

It always sounds like the speaker is pissed off, picking a fight or just sulky. (Lots of Yarpies here in Britain, especially nurses.)

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I suppose South African English can sound threatening, but I do know that the nicest and friendliest people I have met are South African.

 

The bushmen (or Khoi-San as they call themselves) language is kinda impossible to a western ear.

 

Though the language I find most disagreeable is Arabic. It sounds bloody hysterical. French on the other hand is beautiful.

 

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In British English, rising intonation at the end of a sentence indicates a question, falling intonation indicates a statement. I've heard that one of the reasons German speakers often come across as arrogant or rude to Brits is because they use falling intonation, as in German, when asking questions. Similarly, Australian and Hawaiian rising intonation takes the sting out of everything, whereas South African falling intonation seems aggressive. However, this is all relative - we misinterpret their meaning because we assume they're following the same system of rules we are, when they're not. It's the foundation of all cross-cultural misunderstanding, and if more Brits bothered to learn a foreign language, any language, we would be better able to handle it.

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The Semitic languages (hebrew, arab etc.) for their horrible guttural sounds

Southeast asian languages(vietnamese, indonesian) It's high pitched and it sounds like they are talking fast. Japanese sounds alright as well as Chinese.

Accents I can't stand is whay you hear near the New York New Jersey area. It sounds like they are talking with their nose plugged up. "Hi I'm from Neew Jewsiee"

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I don't know if there's a worst sounding language in my opinion, but for accents I hate Birmingham and Mancunian. In fact all those North West English accents are pretty vile.

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Spanish is the most beautiful in my opinion, and curiously Spanish is related (so I understand) to Arabic. Go figure :rolleyes: .

 

I like the 'Joisey' accent, in measured doses.

 

Thanks for the lesson there, Steve. Now I know WHY.

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I like the 'Joisey' accent, in measured doses.

 

:rolleyes:

 

It grates my nerves.

 

The best sound American accent is Southern, in the states of Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas. Rural Southern is hard to understand, they either speak it too fast or they slur their words together.

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Some languages I like are Gaelic (Irish, Scotish), German, Spanish, Romanian, Latin and French.

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Spanish is the most beautiful in my opinion, and curiously Spanish is related (so I understand) to Arabic. Go figure  :rolleyes: .

I personally do not understand universal fascination with Spanish language.

Asian languages recently became more "natural" sounding to my ears. o:)

 

Polish is damn annoying. It sounds exactly like Russian and when I hear it, some familiar patterns are instantly triggerred in my brain, but I can't comprehend a word of what is said.

 

Australian accent was horrifying for the first 3 months of my exposure to it.

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Firstly, yiddish is fantastic.  :D i only know a few terms, but they have terms for things you just NEED, like tojus, chutzpah, and oy vey!

 

I also say that German is quite nice. It can be a little too precise on occasion but there we are.

 

Steve, English spoken in South African also sounds threatening. It is the cadence. For example:

 

Try saying the phrases

 

"I've got to say I love your hair"

&

"i'm afraid I have to kill you."

 

In an English RP, an English Australian, and an English South African accent. The aussie sounds like he's joking on both occasions, and the SAfrican sounds like he wants to kill you on both occasions.

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I suppose South African English can sound threatening, but I do know that the nicest and friendliest people I have met are South African.

 

The bushmen (or Khoi-San as they call themselves) language is kinda impossible to a western ear.

 

Though the language I find most disagreeable is Arabic. It sounds bloody hysterical.  French on the other hand is beautiful.

 

"Je t'aime mon amour, et je t'aimerai toujours. J'ai besoin de toi, tu es l'air que je respire, le r

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I like the 'Joisey' accent, in measured doses.

 

o:)

 

It grates my nerves.

 

The best sound American accent is Southern, in the states of Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas. Rural Southern is hard to understand, they either speak it too fast or they slur their words together.

I like Texan and Hawaii-an :rolleyes:

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