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[He with Horns on Head]

Mongolian is bad, sounds like someone with stones in their mouth mangling Japanese.

As for most annoying, Vietnamese would win for me, just sounds absolutely horrid. Korean is just 'so-so'. Favorite Asian language would have to be Japanese. Mandarin is okay, depending on who is speaking it.

A lot of Eastern European languages sound horrendous too.

Best-sounding language would have to be English, as it's the greatest language in the world.

[pkang0202]

Vietnamese is the most annoying. I haven't heard much Thai so I can't comment on that.

Chinese can be a bit overwhelming too. Especially if you have a group of people talking all at once (Tai Sai table at the Casino for example).

[The Gipkik]

Yes, Vietnamese. During my time in Vietnam, I asked a Frenchman what he thought of the language and he said this: "The Vietnamese language feels like waking up in the middle of a thick rain forest after the rains, when the birds are all singing and I have a horrible hangover." Yeah, I can appreciate that.

[Julius]

[AgentM]

[niugnepLIVE]

Maybe not linguistically technically correct but to a non-trained ear......

Korean: aeeeooooo uh uh uh waeeeeoooo imnida ni da ni da...ooooooooo

Korean sounds like a petulant sulky 4 year old about to cry.... even the men sound like this. Only in the war movies does the korean language not sound whiny and girly. Adjuma speech in the market place is a completely different animal. Cackling chickens is an approximate example

Chinese Mandarine: shh ch zh shhhh meeeeeoooow shhh chh... something cross between an indignant cat and a steam train.

Chinese Cantonese: not even going to try to write how it sounds... but basically something like an angry cat with torrets syndrome

Japanese- watashi kattagattawattagattbatta.. ashitti bashi gattamatta gattbatta.... Sounds cool, but does sound at times like a rock in the spin drier

German- when spoken by young attractive female, it sounds incredibly sexy... when spoken by old short bald man, sounds almost comical in a Dad's army or whatever it was style. When spoken by anybody else, harsh and gutteral

British english- mostly good... can sound highly intellilectual or completely stupid, depending on the speakers background.

Australian english- mostly uneducated.

Canadian english- bland. boring.

American... wide range... mostly harsh to the ears. New york accent makes my ears bleed.

South african/kiwi..... similar sounding... mostly irritating, but can on occasion (when tinged with british) sound pretty cool.

French- gay.

[Draz]

I don't like the sound of Spanish. It's too fluid or something, doesn't sound like language. Just noise, like someone humming randomly.

I went to the Netherlands before Germany and people who think German sounds harsh make me laugh. After listening to Dutch for a week, German was so soft.

[English Matt]

[No_hite_pls]

[Chet Wautlands]

[visitorq]

[shinramyun]

chinese:

if you hear them speaking fast in cantonese with pissed off tone, it's freaking annoying but at the same time, hilarious. sounds like a retarded cat about to die in pain. you just can't help but grin at least once.

Japanese:

wattashiwa gomenazu gomenazai ashitawa konnechiwa , most of time, listening to japanese girls makes me want to dropkick a baby.

korean:

opppa opppa opppa! STFU!

vietnamese:

you are just making a sound with your tongue the most annoying way you can possibly imagine.

[Carla]

Vietnamese. Definately Vietnamese. How can you take two letters and make 6 different words.... without even changing the order???????????

On a different topic... I do love the food my Viet mom makes

[roadwork]

Didn't someone make a post on Dave's once about the Chinese use of the word "niga" to mean "look at that" and the poster's (black) friend was watching a basketball game with a couple of Chinese students who kept pointing at the screen and say "NIGA!" "NIGA!"?

[crossmr]