Natural Languages I Want to Acquire
(UNDER RECONSTRUCTION)
Japanese?
The most beautiful language...
Everytime when a survey is accomplished about the most "romantic" language, we
always got the European gang at top of the list, namely: French, Romanian,
Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese. Wait a sec! Japanese is not a
European language!
If you put Europe aside (i.e. temporarily send Europen citizens to Mars), you'd
see that Japanese is the most romantic, elegant language on Earth.
That's the opinion of many people, but mine is a bit different...
I classify Japanese as the prominent romantic language, above all its European
peers. While most people see French or Spanish as more "romantic" than any other
language, I come to say that Japanese is the "cutest" over all. The cuteness in
Japanese sounds have no equivalents in French nor Spanish, however it has in its
cousins like Mandarin, Thai or Korean.
Haven't you heard any Japanese yet? I recommend you to watch your first Japanese
MV here.
What makes Japanese so cute? (Just an opinion)
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Its bright tones
The five vowels, あ, い, う, え, and お, that composite the whole Japanese
speech, have very special tones that our ears can notice, they're bright
enough to make Japanese the cutest language.
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Its accent
The way speech should be released is the second most important factor that
makes Japanese cute. On the other hand, sometimes the accent itself is what
makes Japanese very unappealing to the ear. But often, it does not.
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Its moraic structure
Sometimes simplicity makes things cute, so does the moraic structure of
Japanese speech.
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People who speak it
East Asian people in general are the cutest in the world in terms of
smallness, due to many morphological and cultural aspects, like having the
smallest scales and the highest voices.
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The shapes of Kana
To be honest, Kanji is not cute at all. But Kana is, though it originated
from Kanji. Kana and Hangul are the two most cutest writing systems in my
vision.