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Why is Japanese so pleasant sounding compared to the rest

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Why is Japanese so pleasant sounding compared to the rest of Asian languages?
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Other Asian languages can sound pleasant, too.
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>>71517504
I dunno, Cantonese sounds pretty sexy imo
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>>71517504
its phonology is completely neutered and the sounds it does have are babby-tier.
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>>71517504
weeb

>>71517528
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>>71517809
chinks
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>tfw you fell for the "Japanese sounds nice" meme

There is nothing more unpleasant hearing snot-nosed teenagers in Tokyo or Osaka talk to each other.
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that's just your imagination
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>>71517504
It's all about the accent that is usually used, japanese can sound ugly too 2bh. Take for example tagalog, it sounds like shit because of those rednecks from Batangas but it mostly have very simple sounds like Japanese.
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>>71517504
The sound such as the music box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-gmKHK2VPs
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>>71517504
probably from media (i.e, anime) and other things that have built this perspective for you. You probably like the mannerisms and tone of Japanese you hear in the media more than the actual language and more than what the average jap sounds like.

No language intrinsically sounds better. Personally I find Chinese languages to be nice, especially Mandarin. Actually pretty much all languages are pleasant, maybe not initially but they grow on you.
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Because you are a weeaboo
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Japanese sounds good overall

Chinese sounds very good spoken by women, so does Korean.

Hindi is absolutely beautiful.

Actually most asian languages are beautiful, imo.
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>>71517995
beautiful
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>>71518750
>t. Mark Zhang Wei
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>>71517528
D I A S P O R A
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>>71517504
Because it sounds a bit like Finnish
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>>71519171
fug off finlan
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>>71519311
Finnish doesn't sound pleasant to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBzov-0lFI
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Mandarin can be nice when spoken in a relaxing tone of voice, but Japanese is by far the most pleasant Asian language.

Turkic languages like Kazakh and Mongolian have grown on me because of their weird vowel sounds though.
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>>71517504
Just does, man. It has a nice flow to it unlike many other Asian languages which are stop-start machine gun languages.
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I find no language to be beautiful. Actually, I don't find anything beautiful.
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Japanese has only 200 syllables and heavy pitch accents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtRs3T_oGqQ

mcdonalds = makkudonarudo

literal babby tier phonology
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>>71519379
The internet has made it so that I can't hear Finnish without cracking up. It's seriously a meme language.

Aside from that, I think it's beautiful, and you have a nice national anthem. Your language caught the ear of Tolkien, too. Thanks for Quenya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKRvD5i44Ko
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>>71519896
This one too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBGPdYAG0c
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>>71519379
It's made me feel to being attacked splitting by words
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I honestly think it's an effect of the writing system.
It just often feels like they are packing two letters after another two letters.
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>>71519844
Large isn't necessarily good, you fat cunt.
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>>71517504
Japanese and Austronesian languages have very similar/simple phonology, yet i have never seen anybody say that Malay is beautiful.

The only actual difference between them is that Japan has anime and first world, while Austronesians are "subhumans" (and therefore, in your mind, ugly).
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Can a Japanese anon Vocaroo themselves saying TOOOSHIBA! in a stereotypical voice really loudly?
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>>71517504
because you're a weeb
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>>71517504
Counter question.

Why does Khmer sound so horrible? It's as if they actively tried to make the least appealing language possible.
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>>71517504
>>71517528
>>71517536
>>71517809
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>>71517841
>>71517863
>Japanese
>kokoro lokoro mokoro nokoro lokoro

LITERALLY Africa-tier.
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>>71521278
It's the semisyllables (like in "Kh"mer), but actually i like it.
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Korean can't be that dissimilar from Japanese, and yet it sounds so much uglier to me.
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>>71521323
It lacks the ugly clicking sounds and it's harmonic.
Why are americans so dumb?
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>>71517504
bc other asian languages are full of ching chong sounds
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>>71521375
gramatically its similar but lightyears ahead in terms of sounds it has in its inventory.
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>>71517504
Chinese sounds better, mostly because japanese is just dumbed-down chinese.
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>>71521485
So are Korean and Vietnamese.

I always amazed how few loanwords Mandarin has. Literally one of the purest language in term of loanwords.
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because things like chinese korean, and etc just sounds harsher
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>>71521375
Answer is simple. Japanese sounds cannot end in a consonant ( except n ) while other languages can.
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Kemono wa itemo nokemono wa inai
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>>71521278
I just looked up a video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UADPwcZ10YA

Holy fuck, this sounds alien.
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>>71521485
Chinese and Japanese are totally different from structure of the language and sounds.

夜來香
Chinese version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYGKAItdgzU
Japanese version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxEH1Ge3xw
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>>71518638
it goes but same for other languages.

I have never been impressed that European and the other Asian languages in medias are beautiful.
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>>71517866
>tagalogs sounds like shit because of those rednecks from Batangas
why do you know this?
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>>71519379
It sounds like fucking pigeons. wtf
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>>71517504
Anime
If japan were third world country, you would think all asian language are shit
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>>71521378
No it has other pretty weird thing about the language. Japan just has memes going for it.
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>>71519379

vitun puhevammanen paska
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>>71523065
The phonetics are pretty and that is what matters
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>>71517504
Why just asian languages as a basis for your cheeky marginalization?? Japanese is the best language in the world.

>>71523391
Japanese sounds better than Hungarian and most European "romance languages" as well, would you agree?
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Most of the languages you're probably thinking of (Vietnamese, Thai, and the various varieties of Chinese, to name a few) are all tonal languages. Japanese is not. Anecdotally speaking, many Westerners who dislike the sound of these languages take exception with the tones more than anything else.
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>>71523741
I'm biased when it comes to Hungarian 2bh.
It has nice vareity.

Japanese lends itself to poetry easily thanks to it's structure.


I think german is beautiful.

But French not so much.
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>>71517504
ANIME
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>>71523796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6E5qfnBTqo
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>>71523796
Japanese has tones anon.

So does English, but I guess it's less.
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