I gotta say I think English sounds the best. So for me it’s more a question of accent. Tough call there.
Japanese is pretty cool in sound and structure. Almost too cutesy and repetitive.
I don’t want to sound like a Nazi, but after all the dramatic portrayals of Nazis speaking english I’d have to say that’s the accent that is standing out the most to me at the moment.
I haven’t really traveled much so I don’t have very much exposure to the various sounds of human languages. I still find it interesting to think about.
I do love italian. Once a guy thought I was from UK, I do have a slight accent. My french and arabic are average, not great but not bad either, I can read and write. My native tongue is armenian though, english is pretty good also. I would love to learn german, spanish.
I used to work in a place with a lot of Indian immigrants, and I loved listening to them talk amongst themselves. I don’t know which language/dialect they spoke, there’s so many. But it was so fast and intricate and delicate and musical.
I really enjoy listening to Cantonese. It sounds so exasperated all the time to me.
I’ve slowly developed an appreciation for the accent I grew up with, Midwestern English. When I was in Japan, I thought Japanese sounded like a bright, babbling spring. The accents of home sounded like a warm, slow river in comparison.
I’d have to find the town with the most active night life and spend a few days there.
Then take a bullet train ride to get a good view of the country side. Mt. Fuji has always been visually impressive. It’d be cool to see how it shapes the landscape in real life.
Maybe in a decade I’ll be able to afford these things.
That’s pretty much exactly what I did on my first trip! Landed in Tokyo, then bullet train to Kyoto, right past Fuji . I think we took the third fastest train - still the bullet train but not the very fastest. I kept wondering if I’d recognize Fuji when we passed it, but it was unmistakable.
Temples and shrines and bamboo forests in Kyoto. We stayed in a ryokan. It was super expensive but so worth it.
but it still has its own rhythm and flavor - it just took getting away from it for a while for me to appreciate it.
. I think we took the third fastest train - still the bullet train but not the very fastest. I kept wondering if I’d recognize Fuji when we passed it, but it was unmistakable.