>> J.Le Carre: "And I discovered that the language fitted me. It fitted my tongue. It pleased my Nordic ear." After learning several european languages, I once

>> J.Le Carre: "And I discovered that the language fitted me. It fitted my tongue. It pleased my Nordic ear." After learning several european languages, I once went to Romania, and enjoyed how nice romanian sounds. I was always thinking why we perceive some languages sound nice and some others not. How languages are perceived depend on the backgrounds of speaker and listener, on the context we're in, on which part of the mouth they are spoken and on the pitch level etc. So a good test is to see the languages spoken by a beautiful seductive person, during dispute, during business negotiation, in pop culture, during manly talks full of testosterone, in the mouths of immigrants and lower classes.While I worked in Germany, a test I was making was to ask someone from a non-neighbor, remote country like Cambodia how German/French or Spanish sounds. At the end all languages sound nice in some context.