What is your favourite language?

What is your favourite language and why?

Don't rush! Consider the way it sounds, its historical and cultural associations, how it benefits you, how it makes you feel...

I've tried to include as many of the biggest and 'most important' languages in the world, but I apologise if I've missed any. Mention them in the comments below!

Chinese (Mandarin)	8
Spanish	6
English	41
Arabic	4
Russian	5
Hindi/Urdu	2
Punjabi	0
German	10
French	17
Japanese	16
Italian	5
Korean	2
Swahili	0
Portuguese	6
Latin	3
Greek	4
Swedish	2
Esperanto	0
Sign Language	2
Hebrew	0
Gibberish	1
Klingon	3
Pirate	5
I Hate All The Languages Of The Humans	4
Bird	10
Other (Please comment below)	6

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NoraBaker

11 years ago

I speak love.

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- shuggy-chan
  
  11 years ago
  
  shhh, no talking.... just emotion
  
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Saycheese

11 years ago

I picked Sign Language. Well I know American Sign Language I should say. I just find the language very interesting and I had taken a couple classes in the past and the stories with it are intersting also. We were required to stay the night at a Deaf school too. And never say they are deaf, they are Deaf and they don't have disabilities they just can't hear.

I need to practice it and re-teach myself some signs I've forgotten over the years. How they sign is pretty cool too; where they put their verbs, nouns and subjects in the sentences.

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- DaemonWolf
  
  11 years ago
  
  As with most languages, the first thing I learnt in sign were the swear words. :¬)
  
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  - iEatZombies_
    
    11 years ago
    
    When I was little a deaf guy was trying to show me "I love you" in sign -which I knew already- and I thought he was trying to say he loved me. I freaked.
    
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- disthing
  
  11 years ago
  
  I need to spend some time learning British Sign Language. I learnt a little several years ago and I enjoyed it. There is something fun about being able to express words and sentences through body language alone - like a more coherent, structured form of charades :) It's a shame there would be so few opportunities for me to practice it with someone.
  
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  - Saycheese
    
    11 years ago
    
    Yes I have to agree.
    
    Something about it I just love it. I remember after I had taken the classes it took a little while before I had stopped signing while I would talk to people. lol.
    
    But you can always just check online websites if you want to learn more. Although a lot of times they have different signs for certain words but still they have some really good websites that have tests and quizzes too. But there should always be a time to practice it with someone too. :) Others need to find it more interesting too.
    
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    - shuggy-chan
      
      11 years ago
      
      dude, i dont know why, but i found that to be very attractive lol, like i honestly dont know why
      
      lol, "ohh yeah babe, sign to me, ahhhh thats so hawt" xD
      
      i think there is something wrong with my brain
      
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Who_Fan4Life

11 years ago

I couldn't really choose a 'favorite' because I haven't spoken any other besides English.

But the ones that seem pretty cool to me are Italian and German.

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tellmeimwrong

11 years ago

Women who speak French and have a French accent. Omg. <3

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Finding_Peace_In_A_Mad_World

11 years ago

English and German.

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an-easy-lover

11 years ago

Arabic is my native language and i love it but i adore English

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- disthing
  
  11 years ago
  
  Arabic has been a language I've been interested in learning for years now. I love how it sounds, the uniqueness of it and the way its written - beautiful!
  
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  - shakernatural
    
    11 years ago
    
    Omg i knoooooooow! I love the way it sounds too:) such a beatiful sound and language. My boyfriend is lebanese and i know some words too:)
    
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    - an-easy-lover
      
      11 years ago
      
      I love Lebanon and its people,they can be very loud lol! People in the Arab world ,including me, have been jealous of the cool, amazingly sexy Lebanese accent dshglhal awesome accent i wish i had :(
      
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      - shakernatural
        
        11 years ago
        
        My boyfriend has this accent..he sounds just like shaggy, haha, the dude who sings and raps "angel":)
        
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theaverageatheist

11 years ago

Afrikaans is awsome^^ i like it because it origenates from 17th century Duch but it's mixed with Portuguese,French,English, Malay, and many native african languages. if you speak only english it may be a bit difficult to understand some one speking it but you can quite easily understand written Afrikaans. thats why i like it, it's a language that any indoeuropean speaking person can easily learn. btw I can speak english,italian fluently then I can speak a bit of spanish,japanese and Afrikaans.

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- GuessWho
  
  11 years ago
  
  How does "Gaan fok jouself" sound?
  
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- disthing
  
  11 years ago
  
  I love how Afrikaans sounds :)
  
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DaemonWolf

11 years ago

Maths.. its the language of Science.

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NeuroNeptunian

11 years ago

I like Spanish and I want to learn it. It's very simple, it makes sense and I just like the way it feels to speak or hear it.

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NoraBaker

11 years ago

I love languages and honestly find it too difficult to opt for one of them alone. I like the idea of a pacific Tower of Babel, where you hear so many different sounds, melodies, structures, but *have to* communicate - as frustrating as it may be, it's such fun to try and do it in a language you've just been introduced to!

DISCLAIMER: If, by any chance, I am creating divisions in fucking society for referencing a biblical story it most certainly is because I fucking want to. Please, pardon my French.

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- NeuroNeptunian
  
  11 years ago
  
  Forgive her. She too is part of my Neo-Nazi coalition to plunge the world into endless religious warfare.
  
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- disthing
  
  11 years ago
  
  Ha!
  
  Why are you creating divisions in society NoraBaker? Why?!
  
  Where's suckonthis9 when you need him.
  
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- shuggy-chan
  
  11 years ago
  
  what, nahhh that shit is old testament, to me, old testament stories aremore like mythology with morals to them.
  
  its the new testament where it get really preachy
  
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- flutterhigh
  
  11 years ago
  
  I should start adding these disclaimers to all my posts.
  
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MaggotMayonnaise

9 years ago

I actually like Danish

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Rainbow_Cookie

10 years ago

Polish. Though I really like the Frisian languages (specially West Frisian) but eh, not very common at all. Hmm Bird? I guess that's useful.. Haha I Hate All The Languages Of The Humans! Nice

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shuggy-chan

11 years ago

well i like all the asian languages, from japanese to korean to thai (i like thai) to more central asian, like indian dialects gujarati

we have family friends from that area that speak it

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LeSigh

11 years ago

I'm so glad this list wasn't longer - I never could have decided. I have spent more time with Greek, but I absolutely love Japanese. Sometimes I dream in it. <3

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Dulse.

11 years ago

Hungarian and Russian. Slavic, Altaic, and Uralic languages are nice sounding overall to me.

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shakernatural

11 years ago

J'adore ma langue, le francais. C'est une tres belle et unique langue!!

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- [Old Memory]
  
  11 years ago
  
  Sa fait du bien voir du francais bein écrit. D'habitude c'est: "Hey ti-Guy, passe moé dont une froide sti!"
  
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  - shakernatural
    
    11 years ago
    
    Ouaiiii, haha ca c'est les canadiens lol, ils disent toujours "esti" ou quelque chose du genre.
    
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    - [Old Memory]
      
      11 years ago
      
      C'est juste nous autre les quebecois. Des fois, j'ai un peut honte que la plupart du monde parle comme ca, haha. Je pense le plus pire c'est ceux qui vit en gaspesie et d'autre places comme sa. Leur accent avec les mots qu'ils on creer, c'est vraiment dégueulasse je trouve.
      
      T'es pas quebecois si tu ne dit pas: "Esti, criss, caliss ou tabarnak!" :P (Meme le monde qui parle anglais le disent, haha)
      
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      - shakernatural
        
        11 years ago
        
        Mdr, "tabarnak!" mon ami le dit tout le temp, c'que c'est drole comme mot:)
        
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misca

11 years ago

I like my native language, Finnish.

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BurnaBaby27

11 years ago

I don't have a favorite language. They're all unique and interesting to learn about.

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KeddersPrincess

11 years ago

I dunno. French just sounds very pretty to me.

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Avant-Garde

11 years ago

Can we pick more than one?

I'll go with French, German and Japanese:)

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howaminotmyself

11 years ago

Body language.

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Corleone

11 years ago

English. Easy grammar, extremely wide vocabulary. Love it.

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- flutterhigh
  
  11 years ago
  
  English grammar is only easy if you've grown up with it. It's really full of contradictions and erroneous rules.
  
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  - Corleone
    
    11 years ago
    
    Umm, I didn't grow up with it. I'm Belgian.
    
    the only languages I know are English, Dutch, French, German, Latin and Italian. Judging by the ones I know, I think The English language has the easiest grammar by far.
    
    There are probably some easier languages out there (such as Esperanto), but from this list, English is definitely my first choice. Furthermore, there are little languages with such a wide vocabulary.
    
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Captain_Kegstand

11 years ago

I only speak English :(. The opportunity to learn other languages here sucks! I will learn Spanish though, I am determined!

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flutterhigh

11 years ago

I love Japanese and English, if only because I speak them. Otherwise, Portuguese, Russian, French, and Arabic are all beautiful among others.

It's just Dutch that sounds terrible, really. Sounds like a guy drowning.

CCHHEUDEN TOCH MEISJE DIJK JARJACHVELT glubglubglub

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GuessWho

11 years ago

HyperText Markup Language

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- dappled
  
  11 years ago
  
  You speaking HTML5 yet?
  
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  - GuessWho
    
    11 years ago
    
    Nah. I only know curse words.
    
    ...and a few jokes: http://izismile.com/2009/09/10/selection_of_html_jokes_36_pics.html
    
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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

German sounds amazing.

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dappled

11 years ago

It's either French or Spanish for me. French sounds very cultured, and Spanish is sultry. I once took the long route home because I was walking behind two Spanish women talking and I was just enjoying the sound of it.

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GreenSkyBlueGrass

11 years ago

Latin because it the root for so many languages. including five of the languages mentioned on your list. And its the ground language used for most areas of science. historically Latin was the language used by many great worries such as the roman's and Greek, during the B.C's it was commonly used to communicate through different empires and through out Europe and the middle east. And in my opinion most people with Latin roots are sexy ;)

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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

italian because one word kind of rolls into the next

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- flutterhigh
  
  11 years ago
  
  You would like me when I'm drunk, then.
  
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  - [Old Memory]
    
    11 years ago
    
    isnt that gibberish?
    
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- [Old Memory]
  
  11 years ago
  
  Yeah same, it sounds very fluent.
  
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anti-hero

11 years ago

Chinese is not a language.

My favorite language is Kaixana, sounds very nice to the ear.

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- disthing
  
  11 years ago
  
  As a generalisation it is, but I get your point - it's more of a family of dialects. I wasn't going to list all the dialects so I simplified. But just for your benefit, I put Mandarin in brackets :)
  
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  - flutterhigh
    
    11 years ago
    
    Technically, isn't every language a family of dialects?
    
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      11 years ago
      
      The major ones are pretty similar but the nation uses over 100 different languages, none of them called Chinese.
      
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    - disthing
      
      11 years ago
      
      Yes many are, but some people argue that Chinese dialects can be so diverse that they constitute a language themselves rather than a variation. So I changed it from Chinese to Chinese (Mandarin), the biggest Chinese dialect, to make Parrish happy :P
      
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    11 years ago
    
    Thank you :)
    
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NotFloydzie

11 years ago

I only know two. I do like my native language, but I don't know how it feels to have all the others as my native language.

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Allistalla

11 years ago

the only ones poeple picked were English , Russian , chinease , and french . Thats curies .

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  11 years ago
  
  Auctully I kindve like Allistallian but ill probobly never learn it becuase not many poeple knwo its like omgod totolly thier loss. Im serioues my freind! XD
  
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  - disthing
    
    11 years ago
    
    Its like my favuroit languije lol , i treid to learn the grummor but i triyed to but Im still laerning but I will . bioeuauotifal.
    
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    - shakernatural
      
      11 years ago
      
      Lol wtf?? Hahaha "bioeuauotifal" lmaoXD
      
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      11 years ago
      
      You dont haev to feel inattiquate becuase its normol lol the grammer is diffrent so my piont is its if you didnt have alot of opputunitys you didnt laern. but omgod your huluroies! we can totolly practis allistallan but you cant be super hidoeos an promiss not to toach me funny lol XD
      
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        11 years ago
        
        @NoraBaker/Disthing
        Man! That was so damn funny and creative! You guys have really been paying attention in class, haven't you? lmfao
        
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