What's your favourite language and why?

[Eran of Arcadia]

b is a really good reason but you're not supposed to choose your own language.

I didn't; English is my native language but I can speak Spanish fairly well. If they mean "languages that you don't speak at all", then one of my favorite languages must be French; it does sound beautiful.

 

[BlizzardGR]

I didn't; English is my native language but I can speak Spanish fairly well. If they mean "languages that you don't speak at all", then one of my favorite languages must be French; it does sound beautiful.

My bad then!

 

[Rambuchan]

Thank! Here's another link from that website.

Nice one. Unfortunately, I'm not a linguist, so many of those terms go right over my head.

 

[Leifmk]

Latin. The language of educated Europeans for most of the past two millennia.

 

[C~G]

I happen to also like latin in some sense.

Favourite would be english, not being my native language which should be rather obvious to anyone reading my messages.
With english you're able to communicate with so many people that it gives opportunities that you never dreamed of as a child.

Of course I like it also because I grew up watching english movies and television shows.
English shaped my world view so I became more cosmopolitan?

After all we need one language to unity us and not to separate us. (That sounds like quote from LOTR )

 

[Phlegmak]

Russian is the coolest language. German is the next coolest.

Latin is pretty good too.

I can already speak some Spanish, and I must say, it's an ugly language. I speak it because my wife's family is Peruvian, and my entire family on my mother's side is Cuban.

 

[Shaihulud]

German, because im trying to learn it and i like the german people.

 

[C~G]

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

- Mark Twain

 

[Spartan117]

i dont know but i think that english can be the most descriptive...

otehr than that i like spanish, i am mexican

 

[Evil Tyrant]

I like Russian, I can't understand a word of it, but it is very beautiful to listen to. I also like German, mostly due to the fact that everything sounds like a death threat in it.(this impression may be the result of my watching too many war movies when growing up) I have also just started to take Spanish lessons, but that is a school requirement, and the only languages to choose from were that and French.

 

[Rossiya]

I love the italian language and its dialects. As well as being semi-fluent in italian, i am also learning the dialect my dad speaks from him. He's from a village in Frosinone, Lazio. The dialect is unlike italian in the sense that the some of the phoneticness (is that a word?) of italian is lost.

beautiful langauge

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

I like to hear Spanish, but I'm most fond of Gaelic as I've been looking at my ancestory lately.

 

[Ansar]

French and Italian.

 

[Quinzy]

im irish, but i love the sound of a fleuent irish (gaelic) speaker. well, from the north anyway. not a kerry or cork accent.. eugh..

also i like german, but that could also be because i'm studying it too...

 

[Fox Mccloud]

I really want to learn Chinese, Russian and Arabic. Maybe I should also learn Hindi, Japanese, Latin, Quechua and Spanish.

Probably silence for me. The only other language I just about know is English and I can't learn any others.

Silence is not a language, so that doesn't count.

 

[Turner]

I said it before here and I'll say it again: I got cursed out in Russian once and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Poetic.

 

[CaptainF]

Spanish!

I can actually understand it/speak it/read it/write it.

Saberlo es Quererlo.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

I love the sound of Italian, especially as spoken by northerners and Romans. It's a musical language, very nice, very lyrical. I have a friend from Italy who speaks it at home, and it's amusing to hear him argue with his mother over the phone (generally, he's at my house, wanting to continue our Hotseat game of CivIV).

I speak a fair amount of Arabic, and I happen to think it's wonderful, correctly spoken. Unlike most languages, it has a better tone to it when spoken by men--it's a language that comes from the throat. It's also quite possibly the nicest language to look at--Arabic calligraphy is wonderful. Written Arabic has this wonderful quality to it; it's flowing one letter into the next, and it looks like the letters are dancing into one another.

Chinese is horrible to listen to, but what it lacks in sound it makes up in the beauty of well-written characters. Simple, yet beautiful--it fits the Chinese well, and the Japanese even better.

 

[The Yankee]

I need/want to learn more Russian. I'll also agree with the above post that Arabic can sound quite nice. Especially when sung.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Of course, I just like to hear other languages in general. I love it when in movies they use subtitles. And today 2 of my friends were speaking German to each other - very interesting.