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Usenet Posted 19 years ago
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I'm Italian, and when I hear Saxon Languages like English, and German (especially German with cluster like tshcl), it sounds hard... too many consonants.
For example, in music, only vocals are singed... i't obviously impossible to sing one tch...
So there's a strong reason (for me) in why I hear more musical Latin languages than Saxon ones
But my question is:
I'm Italian... it's logical that I prefer Latin
How sounds my language (and other Latin like Spanish and French) at non Latin people?
I hope the smart of my question surpass the quality of my English bye
  

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[/nq] Only in hot jazz. [nq:1]So there's a strong reason (for me) in why I hear more musical Latin languages than Saxon ones[/nq] For some odd reason, the speaker's own language always sounds best. It doesn't matter whether it's English of any flavour, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Sami, Finnish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Albanian, Arabic, Hausa or Xhosa.

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  • [/nq] Only in hot jazz.
  • [nq:1]So there's a strong reason (for me) in why I hear more musical Latin languages than Saxon ones[/nq] For some odd reason, the speaker's own language always sounds best.
  • It doesn't matter whether it's English of any flavour, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Sami, Finnish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Albanian, Arabic, Hausa or Xhosa.
  • Foreign languages all have funny sounds that you can't pronounce, wherever you start out from.
  • You can't call that blotto voce Italian singing more musical than a correctly sung series of Bushman clicks, or the sibilant Lls or a Welsh male voice choir.
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[nq:1]For example, in music, only vocals are singed..[/nq]
Only in hot jazz.
[nq:1]So there's a strong reason (for me) in why I hear more musical Latin languages than Saxon ones[/nq]
For some odd reason, the speaker's own language always sounds best. It doesn't matter whether it's English of any flavour, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Sami, Finnish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Hungarian,
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[nq:2]For example, in music, only vocals are singed..[/nq]
[nq:1]Only in hot jazz.[/nq]
Maybe it isn't true... follow this
Can you sing the word
"Listten to the raddio"?
or better
"Listeen to the raadio"
Sigers, make practice using vocalize, not consonantize Vocalize consist in sing a scale ascend and descend using A, E, I etc, Its obviously impossibile to do it using T
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[nq:2]Only in hot jazz.[/nq]
[nq:1]Maybe it isn't true... follow this Can you sing the word "Listten to the raddio"? or better "Listeen to the ... or L.. (Vocals came from larynx, instead consonants are like a joke with the tongue... think RR... consonants have no-sound...)[/nq]
He was referring to your word "singed". You meant "sung".

singe - verb (singed, singeing) tr & intr to
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[nq:1]sung - past participle of sing[/nq]
sorry!
[nq:1]Italian and Spanish and, to some extent, French definitely "flow" differently[/nq]
I never thought about it in term of timings...
... French sounds better than others latin languages? it's another interesting thing...
English sounds better than German too...
Thanks a lot for the answer...
bye
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[nq:2]Italian and Spanish and, to some extent, French definitely "flow" differently[/nq]
[nq:1]I never thought about it in term of timings...[/nq]
It is possible to consider that Italian (like French) is a syllable timed language, while English (like German) is a stress timed language. This may account for the differences which you described.
One's personal preferences are simply that.
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[nq:1]delightful to listen to and to speak, while Latin is neither.[/nq]
Perhaps you had learn latin at school?
It's incredible (at least in Italy) how school can make detest stuff...

Anyhow, we'll never knows how latin sounds... nor ancient greek or egyptian
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[nq:1]delightful to listen to and to speak, while Latin is neither.[/nq]
Perhaps you have learned latin at school?
It's incredible (at least in Italy) how school can make detest stuff...

Anyhow, we'll never knows how latin sounds... nor ancient greek or egyptian
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[nq:2]delightful to listen to and to speak, while Latin is neither.[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps you had learn latin at school? It's incredible (at least in Italy) how school can make detest stuff... Anyhow, we'll never knows how latin sounds... nor ancient greek or egyptian[/nq]
Why do you think that?

John Briggs
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[nq:1]Why do you think that?[/nq]
It's my humble opinion, of course.
Think about italian-people who learn english.
You can immediatly hear that their english sounds different... it's not your english... it's italish...
But italians who learn english can hear very often english-peolpe-spaking, and its sound
Nevertheless, they can't reproduce the right sound

Can you foll
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... well, obviously this concern closely sounds...

But if you don't love latin, you should not learn it... such if you don't love piano, you should not force yourself to learn it... School should create interest, not force learnings... but it's really only my humble opinion
bye
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