# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/41 "2010-12-21T20:56:40Z")
I like the sound of Welsh, Greek, Finnish and Japanese. I don’t understand why people like French. It sounds too mushy and phlegmy to me, and all those horrible nasal sounds… ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/42 "2010-12-21T21:20:24Z")
I like any non-American English language and especially the ones where I have no idea what they are saying which is why Mexican Spanish and German would be my least favorites as I understand a lot of the words being said. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/43 "2010-12-21T21:39:01Z")
Mt actual vote goes to **Castilian Spanish** ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/44 "2010-12-21T22:03:34Z")
Japanese sounded pretty to me before I learned a fair deal of it. Now it just sounds normal. I like lyrical Chinese, like poetry or song, but I am not a huge fan of the standard spoken language. Thai to me sounds like the aliens from Mars Attacks! I like Italian and Icelandic. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/45 "2010-12-22T01:09:47Z")
When I lived in Spain there were a large number of Senegalese immigrants and I really loved the sound of the language they spoke to each other. Looking it up, I see that Senegal has a number of native languages, so I have no idea what language I was actually hearing. It just sounded very round, like bubbles floating up through water. I also like Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish (especially Argentinian Spanish). ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/46 "2010-12-22T02:56:08Z")
Fans of Russians speaking English should watch Rounders, the accent John Malkovich does may not be 100% accurate but it is very pleasing to my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/47 "2010-12-22T03:54:43Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Thai to me sounds like the aliens from Mars Attacks! It most certainly does. Lao is a softer version of Thai though; it’s not bad at all. Chinese, any dialect, sounds like two roosters fighting near a live microphone with the amp turned up to 11. The wife likes Italian. She’s fascinated with the way Swedish sounds, but I’m not sure she “likes” it. Myself, I think English sounds great :D. But I also enjoy listening to French, German (has to be the right speaker though), Spanish, Hawaiian, Malay and Nepali. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/48 "2010-12-22T13:59:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ladino. > > My inlaws speak it, and while they do it mainly to annoy me, it’s still a beautiful language. > [@JoseB](#): > > I would say this as well. I don’t know if it’s still on and can’t check at work, but rne used to have a program in Ladino and you can listen to their programming through their website (no location restrictions last time I tried to do it from abroad). Music, poetry, news, history… I think the program was called Sefarad. ---
**Author:** ![lisalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lisalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisalan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/49 "2010-12-22T14:50:42Z")
German is too gutteral sounding. I like French from France not French-canadian french as well as Italian. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896/50 "2010-12-22T16:11:54Z")
> [@lisalan](#): > > German is too gutteral sounding. It depends on the region. Some are more guttural-sounding than others. I like the Swiss accent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-language-sounds-the-best/564896.md?page=2)