Most Annoying-Sounding Languages?

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The annoying-ness is amplified when I don't understand the language, of course.

From the languages I've heard, Hindi/Urdu, Vietnamese, and Filipino are really fricking annoying.

Contrast this with languages such as Japanese, Taiwanese, and Romance Languages (e.g. French, Spanish, etc.) which are quite pleasing to the ear (usually).
 
There are only two things I can't stand... people who are intolerant of other cultures and peoples... and the Dutch.
 
Culture has nothing to do with it.

Languages are a funny thing. Know one, and the sounds take on meanings. Don't know one, and the sounds are just sounds.
 
Dutch is just a goofy sounding language. I don't care for it at all. And to be honest, many asian languages aren't exactly pleasant sounding. Nothing against them personally, but yeah.....they're no french.
 
I think German sounds pretty butch. It isn't annoying. It just isn't all that poetic sounding of a language.

As far as most annoying, I'd definitely agree with the previously mentioned dialects of the English language.
 
Danish sounds pretty weird. They convert most of the consonants into drawn-out vocals, and drag all the sounds out of their stomachs. I'm Norwegian and can read Danish perfectly since our languages are very similar on paper, but if I listen to a Dane, all I hear is guttural nonsense like geeeidebooudeiæææigemuuuutheloooouwe. I have no idea how they can talk together at all.

Oh, and Dutch is funny.
 
MaverickX9 said:
I think German sounds pretty butch. It isn't annoying. It just isn't all that poetic sounding of a language.
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That's actually true.
Best example would be a speech by you-know-who, dubbed with the completely unrelated ramblings of a comedian some 60 years later (it's about leasing a car):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-7QoiOH9r0

Personally, I find the dutch language at least amusing, it sounds like German with a heavy case of sore throat or reciting poetry while gargling to me.
 
Not the language really, but the shrill, shrieking overacting on Japanese anime makes my ears bleed.
 
Alex said:
Not the language really, but the shrill, shrieking overacting on Japanese anime makes my ears bleed.
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Or when theyre walking down the street, and you can hear theyre talking a block away.
 
All germanic languages. I just really don't like the way they sound.
 
Instigator said:
Most germanic languages look cool in written form, but are unbearable when spoken. The only possible exception is Swedish.
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How come? Of course, agree with you, but I'm still curious :)
 
Flemish is dutch done right :P for proof talk to any dutch guy one second after he speaks with an attractive belgian girl and he will agree.

I like dutch and german, but only because they are beginning to take on meaning for me as I'm SLOWLY learning to speak them (dutch more than german right now). I like german because at first it's impossible to tell if the person is angry or excited if you don't speak it.

for straight out awesomeness I think we can all agree that Scottish English is the greatest language in the world. It's a fact that a joke told in regular english is about 5 times less funny than when a mildly drunk scottish person tells it.

Chinese bugs me a bit, if only because there is so many chinese people that don't integrate into society where I'm from.
 
I'm not sure if it's british or irish, but the whole lot of them that can't pronounce 'th'.

You would hear 'That's what I thought you were thinking' as 'Tats Wert I Tawt You Werr Tinkin'
 
demon said:
Dutch is just a goofy sounding language. I don't care for it at all. And to be honest, many asian languages aren't exactly pleasant sounding. Nothing against them personally, but yeah.....they're no french.
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I agree.

I think French and Japanese and great sounding languages. Chinese sounds terrible, though. Scandinavian languages are nice too.
 
I hate Asian languages. I used to like it, but now sitting in a Computer Science room for hours upon hours listening to all the "ooo~" sounds just really pisses me off.
 
Scullibundo said:
I'm not sure if it's british or irish, but the whole lot of them that can't pronounce 'th'.

You would hear 'That's what I thought you were thinking' as 'Tats Wert I Tawt You Werr Tinkin'
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That's Irish, or Bugs Bunny. In the town I'm from, the local mouthbreathers can't say 'th' either, they repace it with f and drop 'h's like "I'll ave free of em" (I'll have three of them)

Not that I talk the Queen's English either, my wife's family in the US have a hard time understanding me, I think they thought we Brits talk like 50's BBC newsreaders.
 
After spending the last 3 months in Hong Kong... my vote goes to Cantonese. It just sounds so... coarse? And people here seem to 'shout' it all the time. It gets fricking annoying....especially when they do it at 3am in the hall at night when I'm trying to get some sleep
 
Chinese

because they're so ****ing loud damn these people and their language...

working with Chinese people for 5 years didn't help in this matter
 
Jill Sandwich said:
That's Irish, or Bugs Bunny. In the town I'm from, the local mouthbreathers can't say 'th' either, they repace it with f and drop 'h's like "I'll ave free of em" (I'll have three of them)
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That's not Irish, that reads like some english variant :p

I'm sure there are some Irish accents where the 'th' is often dropped in favour of a hard 't', but not where I'm from. Although to someone from outside it probably all sounds the same. The most annoying Irish accents are probably from Cork or Kerry.
 
I always hated french for the gayish sentence melody .. and yeah I speak french. :(
Other than that some English accents are also quite annoying.
 
thomaser said:
Danish sounds pretty weird. They convert most of the consonants into drawn-out vocals, and drag all the sounds out of their stomachs. I'm Norwegian and can read Danish perfectly since our languages are very similar on paper, but if I listen to a Dane, all I hear is guttural nonsense like geeeidebooudeiæææigemuuuutheloooouwe. I have no idea how they can talk together at all.

Oh, and Dutch is funny.
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quoted for mother****ing truth. big up danes. Also, reading swedish is a pain. And spanish(especially when it makes them sound so feminine...) and (whiny-girl) korean is such a tragedy to the ears.

and Danmark needs to stop their bullshit counting system, are there any danish people here that can defend that silly silly system?
 
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