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Originally Posted by maianhvk
I just came home from French class. I'm truly struggling with it, that "language of love". (Gee, in my opinion French sounds really @#$%^&. Duh.) Why do they have to seperate nouns into masculin and feminin?
("voiture" and "Allemagne": feminin. "sac" and "miroir": masculin. Unbelievable.)
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At least you don't have the problem that your native language has masculine and feminine words as well, like Dutch/Flemish. Often a word that's feminine in Flemish will be masuciline in French or the other way around.
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Originally Posted by astra
Although I know two languages with masculin and feminine I feel you pain. I also never understood "language of love" definition. I sounds harsh and dull to me. I find English much more beautiful. No. Not because I speak it (somehow) now. I felt this way in my school time, when I knew English as well as I knew and still know German, French, Italian and hundreds others. It was just my natural perception of foreign language. On the other hand I never disliked German as many do. It sounds robotic and harsh but somehow....precise  Always disliked Arabic. For some reason it associated with the language of the land of Mordor for me, so unattractive and ugly it was. I guess it is a very personal thing, depends on your hearing. I cannot sing, so mayby I am limited in the range of sounds, though my hearing is absolutely fine (checked it 1 year ago). |
I think it depends on the dialect. I can't stand Texan American (no offense to any Texans on this forum though!), but I like Oxford-English. It's the same for French I think. One of my colleagues is from Paris, and his French is beautiful. German ... now that is a harsh-sounding language! I think the dislike has a lot to do with history though.
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