Nice sounding natlangs

[Davoush]

Ahhhh! Nooooooo!
As hurribla!

~Lyra

Ahahahaha. Sabia ca ta faria por. As ca'l txava és raru-raru, eh? Par sort yo no'l sentu molt.

Aska las parsones dal sud pansen ka tots als dal nord parlen aixins, i ka tots som uns putus capullus xD

~Lyra

I have a few friends from Barcelona who speak exactly like that...I thought that was how Catalan was supposed to sound.

[Lyra]

Ahhhh! Nooooooo!
As hurribla!

~Lyra

Ahahahaha. Sabia ca ta faria por. As ca'l txava és raru-raru, eh? Par sort yo no'l sentu molt.

Aska las parsones dal sud pansen ka tots als dal nord parlen aixins, i ka tots som uns putus capullus xD

~Lyra

I have a few friends from Barcelona who speak exactly like that...I thought that was how Catalan was supposed to sound.

Yeah, I don;t know why some ppl just speak it that way... it's kind of annoying...
I quite like the Northern accent (with its strange tune) and the southern Mountain accent. I speak a mix of Standard Catalan with a lot of Ebre thrown in...

~Lyra

[Jipí]

So how many catalanophones do we have here now :o

[Mr. Z]

So how many catalanophones do we have here now

Lots of.
It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

[Izambri]

Obviously. Because that's not Castilian, nor any other Spanish dialect. XD

Je sais que cela n'était pas espagnol, mais je crois qu'il y ressemblait assez pour le comprendre, peut-être aussi par l'aide des autres langues romanes. Au moins, si on fait l'effort de discerner les mots apparentés.

Note that the spelling was altered to represent the xava speech, so the difficulties to understand what these sentences mean is higher for a non native.

[Jipí]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.

[Astraios]

I didn't get that... I was mentally pronouncing it as /xi'pi/ or something because it looks somewhat Spanishy or South American.

[Ser]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.

Is /ʤiˈpiː/ a German pronunciation of "GP"? (Not that I know any German). As far as English goes I'd expect /ˈdʒiː ˈpiː/ (both letters stressed). <Jipí> does look like the transcription of a word in a language aboriginal to Spanish America using a spelling system based on Spanish (as is typical of Nahuatl, Quechua, etc.).

[----]

I've been pronouncing it /ʒiˈpi/ since it changed. I'm glad to see that my guess of the pronunciation was pretty close.

[Travis B.]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.

Is /ʤiˈpiː/ a German pronunciation of "GP"? (Not that I know any German). As far as English goes I'd expect /ˈdʒiː ˈpiː/ (both letters stressed). <Jipí> does look like the transcription of a word in a language aboriginal to Spanish America using a spelling system based on Spanish (as is typical of Nahuatl, Quechua, etc.).

For a German pronunciation of GP I would personally expect /ˈɡeː ˈpʰeː/ or like. That said, I definitely agree in the impression I get about Jipí as it is written.

[Izambri]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP

Wops, I didn't. Too obscure to me.

By the way, is this list updated?

[linguoboy]

I didn't get that... I was mentally pronouncing it as /xi'pi/ or something because it looks somewhat Spanishy or South American.

Me, too. In fact, I was initially thrown to discover that "Jipí" was native speaker of German rather than Spanish.

[BloodMerchant]

Good:

Georgian
Syriac
Wu Chinese (e.g. Shanghainese, my mother tongue; I know I'm biased)

Not bad:

Persian
Armenian
Occitan
other Caucasian languages

Bad:

Northern Mandarin dialects (Northeastern Mandarin and actual Beijing dialect sound the worst; very rhotic and too much of those retroflex fricatives, ugly-sounding diphthongs and triphthongs)
Germanic languages

Ugly:

Cantonese (Doesn't really flow as much)
Vietnamese (same reason as above)

[Skomakar'n]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.

Oh! I thought it was Spanish too (after realising every time, after having forgotten already, that it doesn't say "Jlpi"). I would never have guessed.

[Jipí]

Northern Mandarin dialects (Northeastern Mandarin and actual Beijing dialect sound the worst; very rhotic and too much of those retroflex fricatives,

I heard a Chinese girl talk up another guy on the bus the other day and it was all [ʂɹ̩ ʂɹ̩ ʂɹ̩]. Combined with her cute looks it somehow added to cutesy methought. (I didn't understand anything, though, since I don't know Chinese.)

[Pinetree]

I've always been partial to the sounds of Finnish, Scots Gaelic and Russian.

Cant stand French, though.

[aquatius]

+:
Icelandic
Japanese
Croatian (or Polish, for that matter)

-:
Dutch (though I go through phases of liking and disliking it; I find the rhoticity of some dialects far more offputting that the /x/)
Bavarian German (it lacks the sexy crispness of Hochdeutsch)
Vietnamese

[Click]

I like:
Finnish
Spanish
Georgian
OK:
German
I do not like:
Hungarian
Japanese
Dutch

[Skomakar'n]

I try really hard not to have any prejudices against any language, or any bad thoughts when I do know what they sound like, but... I just can't get Russian to sound good sung in my ears. The spoken language is fine, as far as my experience can tell, but when they sing, at a much slower rate, one catches the individual sounds much better, and I realise that there is at least one, and usually several, palatalised consonants in almost every single word. It's just... too much.

At least most other Slavic languages did something interesting with their palatalisation, yielding a varied range of consonantal sounds, affricates or clusters. Russian just really does sound like parodies of it. Most languages don't sound like their parodies, but Russian really does.

Like I said, though, I don't want to have hard feelings for any language, so I shall be continuing my attempts to gain some more love for Russian.

[Shrdlu]

Sko,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-0ScD4Yec

[Qwynegold]

It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.

You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.

Huh. For me it's yippee.

I think Mandarin sounds like a waterfall. All awsome and stuff.

[Skomakar'n]

Sko,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-0ScD4Yec

That was nice.

[Yuuri]

Highly personal, but...
+:
Finnish
Italian
<a vacant place>
+/–:
Swedish
Japanese
Arabic
–/+:
German
Mandarin
Turkish
­­–:
French
Korean
Hebrew

[Thry]

I do like how Spanish sounds (sorry but not Catalan, as much as I like it), not my dialect though.

Castilian Spanish. /TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT/. I can't stand seseo.

English (unless you make me go for dialects, because all have something horrible) and Japanese also sound fine, as does Finnish. French is cool but I'm probably more in love with the language than with the sounds.

I'd agree that Arabic is awful.

[Yng]

But WHAT Arabic? dialects vary so much it's pretty much impossible to pass judgement on all of them. I think most Maghreb dialects are ugly as sin and likewise Iraqi, but Levantine and Egyptian are quite pretty (although Levantine sounds a bit whiny).