# What Language Sounds the Best **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896 "2010-12-21T01:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/1 "2010-12-21T01:13:18Z")
You do not have to know the language at all but which language sounds the best (for any reason) to you? I like German personally. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/2 "2010-12-21T01:33:05Z")
I like it too, but not because I think it sounds “nice” - it sounds interesting. For pretty, I have to be boring and go French. But if you hadn’t qualified it by saying “sound”. the language that fascinates me most is sign language. I LOVE to watch deaf people communicate. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/3 "2010-12-21T01:34:13Z")
Russian. No good reason. Just like it. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/4 "2010-12-21T01:36:00Z")
Russian. Go look up Russian versions of classic Disney songs on Youtube. I think it sounds awesome. Edit: Damn you, **MsWhat**! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/5 "2010-12-21T01:37:59Z")
I don’t really like the way either French or German sound. I do enjoy listening to Italian and Portuguese, though. They both sound very musical to my ear. (I bet Spanish would as well, except that it’s too ordinary - it doesn’t sound interesting, it just sounds like Spanish.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/6 "2010-12-21T02:06:10Z")
Portuguese for me, too. But I also love the sound of French. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/7 "2010-12-21T02:28:21Z")
Russian. It sounds awesome. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/8 "2010-12-21T02:29:53Z")
OMG Russian, deffo. I watched Putin telling Michael Dell to go eff himself at a summit meeting and just melted. Dark horse: Benjamin Netanyahu speaking English. OMG OMG OMG. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/9 "2010-12-21T03:15:40Z")
I’d say French, actually. Sure it sounds pretentious, but it is beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Amasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Amasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amasia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/10 "2010-12-21T03:17:21Z")
Mongolian. There is a flow to the language that is very relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/11 "2010-12-21T03:17:48Z")
Italian, with French as a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/12 "2010-12-21T03:25:28Z")
Swedish is very lyrical. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/13 "2010-12-21T04:13:24Z")
I speak Russian, and I have to admit that it doesn’t sound particularly beautiful to my ear any more–it just sounds like talking. Sad. I don’t find the other Slavic languages particularly lovely to listen to, either. Same with French, although everyone I know who speaks it speaks “dirty Quebec” or chiac, neither of which are very romantic. I love listening to Danish or Swedish. Finnish is interesting to listen to. I could listen to Swahili all day. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/14 "2010-12-21T04:17:50Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > I speak Russian, and I have to admit that it doesn’t sound particularly beautiful to my ear any more–it just sounds like talking. Sad. I don’t find the other Slavic languages particularly lovely to listen to, either. Since I speak Bulgarian, I compare all Slavic languages to that. Russian sounds like a harsher Bulgarian, not particularly nice to listen to at all. Bosnian is more melodious, though, like Bulgarian with an Italian accent. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/15 "2010-12-21T04:21:53Z")
I’ve always thought Mandarin chinese sounded fairly elegant. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/16 "2010-12-21T04:24:38Z")
Italian as spoke by Sophia Lauren! Oh and Finnish is a cool sounding language. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/17 "2010-12-21T05:35:03Z")
I love to hear a woman speaking French. But a man - ugh! Sounds like they’re trying to hawk up a huge ball of phlegm. Disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/18 "2010-12-21T06:05:58Z")
I love listening to my Romanian buddies arguing. I know they are being perfectly vile at each other but it sure is pretty sounding =) And I adore russian, german and my viking buddies speaking english with their normal accent. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/19 "2010-12-21T06:14:05Z")
When I was a kid I had a CD by a band from Iceland called Varttina. All of their songs were sung in the native language. I listened to it over and over…it has a real hypnotic quality to it. Sometimes it kind of sounds like English, as in, you can “hear” English words in it that aren’t actually there. But I really like how it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/20 "2010-12-21T07:25:26Z")
French. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896.md?page=2)