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What is your favorite language?

Asked by PhiNotPi (12686points) April 3rd, 2011

What is your favorite language, besides your native language? You do not have to be fluent in the language.

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12Oaks's avatar

Music is written in Italian, so Italian it is, though I am fluentish in another language (self taught).

Seek's avatar

Oh, this is so hard.

I love language in general, and have many “favourites”.

I love the roughness of Gaelic, and the fluid quality of Japanese. I love the romance of Italian and the… something of Farsi. I can’t even explain what I love about Farsi… but it’s awesome. And I love Hindi, and Greek, and Swahili… And sign language? forget it. ** sigh **

Communication rules. ^_^

marinelife's avatar

French. I love the sound of it.

TexasDude's avatar

This is tough. I’ve always liked German because it just sounds badass, and I devoted more than a few years of my schooling to studying it. I’m currently studying Arabic, because it’s a really cool language, and the script is awesome. Russian is cool too. I seem to have an affinity for the languages of the “bad guys.”

I guess if I had to choose, I’d wind up choosing D’ni, which happens to be a fictional language

reijinni's avatar

Right now, Occitan to balance out the French.

Sunny2's avatar

Italian. It’s so open and expressive. Even words for ugly things like garbage sound wonderful.

yankeetooter's avatar

I prefer singing in Latin and Italian. Spanish is probably the second language after English that I speak the best, and German is the most fun to speak…

SavoirFaire's avatar

Ancient Greek. When pronounced correctly, it’s almost like song.

KateTheGreat's avatar

Estonian. My native language is Russian, and I think it is amazing. Estonian is just beautiful. It’s so much fun to speak.

flutherother's avatar

I don’t like the sound of spoken Chinese but I love the look of Chinese characters whether written by brush or printed. I like Chinese poetry and wish I could read the poems in their original language.

Berserker's avatar

I think both Russian and German sound pretty awesome. So do the Scandinavian languages, especially Norwegian.

ratboy's avatar

C++ is huge, subtle, complex, and almost universally “spoken.”

DominicX's avatar

Latin.

As a lover of languages, it’s not easy to choose just one, but I like Latin a little bit more than my other favorite languages (Turkish, Japanese, Basque, etc.) Latin has the best sound, I love the grammatical system, I love the history that goes along with it, I love the long association with Latin and education, it’s just excellent and I may very well some day end up being a Latin teacher. :)

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

I like Italian for the same reason as the very first answer. When I first saw this question, Italian popped in my mind because of music.
French is also a favorite language of mind because I like how it looks when it’s written, and how it sounds when it’s spoken by people who are fluent in it. Not mediocre students like me

dxs's avatar

I like english and italian, mainy because I speak them. But if I were to pick one not of my “native tongue”, I’d say French because everything flows so well. Also, portuguese is soo boggling to listen to because their mouths are like motors nd are saying 9874932 words a minute so do french canadians…so that’s kind of cool, too.

Seelix's avatar

I like Latin a ton and I’d love to study it in greater depth than I already have.

I can speak French, Italian and Spanish (and English, of course), and I guess Italian is my favourite. I say that because of the literature and culture that goes along with it, and because if I said any other language, the grad school gods would kick me off the PhD waiting list.

I’m planning for my PhD thesis to study italiese, which is the Italian-English hybrid that’s developed in places where immigrants have settled (I’ll be focusing on Ontario, but it exists in other English-speaking places as well). I’ve learned a little Italiese from the plays I was in during my undergrad, but I’m really looking forward to getting more into it.

disenchanted_poisongirl's avatar

Greek
English
Finnish

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