The manliest is, by far, Arabic. If Captain Falcon were real, he'd be a manly fucking towelhead, in the unforgiving desert of the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia born and raised, speaking the roughest dialect of the harshest language. And his name would be QAA'ID SHAHID!
For the most feminine one I'll have to settle with Swedish. It's very soft, it flows nicely and is always spoken in a sort of sing-song tune. Svenska tjejer är heta!
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Anonymous2008-07-25 3:50
french is for wimmins
southern Slavic languages sound pretty manly
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Anonymous2008-07-28 9:28
It's all perception. I, for instance, think Arabic is for chicks and Swedish for übermen.
Korean is pretty manly imo.. and Jamaican English too in some instances.
Feminine languages.. Brittish, most likely.
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Anonymous2008-07-31 14:18
feminine: French, English and Mandarin
masculine: Russian, German and Spanish
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Anonymous2008-07-31 16:20
feminine: Swedish, British English, Mandarin
masculine: Russian, American English, Korean
homosexual: Hindi
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Anonymous2008-07-31 19:38
>>7
English is feminine and Spanish is masculine? oh wow
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Anonymous2008-08-01 4:33
people who think german is manly probably don't speak it. i love it, but it's a very soft sounding language once you get used to it.
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Anonymous2008-08-01 19:16
>>9
Well, with Spanish, I might be biased because I've watched like 200 episodes of the Mexican dub of Dragonball Z. >>10
I'm >>7 and fluent in German.
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Anonymous2008-08-02 18:49
feminine: Quenya
masculine: Ithkuil
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Anonymous2008-08-03 2:08
>>12
>Ithkuil
the script looks cool and rough, but the language itself? Dunno, I think it sounds more like something between vomiting and the babbling of a retard, not like something I'd label as particularly manly.
>>15
Actually the Masculine ones would rather be Spanish, Italian, Italian and Mandarin.
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Anonymous2008-08-16 22:38
Otto Jespersen once said that Hawaiian sounded very feminine, and therefore the Hawaiian people are unable to do things like wage war. That claim has some serious LOL factor.
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Anonymous2008-08-16 22:57
Russian, and some other slavic languages are pretty damn manly
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Anonymous2008-08-17 1:43
most feminine, Italian, French, Portuguese...
German and Scottish accent in English are manly imho
Why do people think English sounds feminine? I would think it's more neutral sounding...
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Anonymous2008-08-18 12:17
>>23
That's because you're a native English speaker, most likely.
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Anonymous2008-08-19 0:58
>>23
because they probably are thinking men speaking it, but try to imagine a female. Yes, english makes men sound gay, and women sound butch.
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Anonymous2008-08-20 12:05
German is one of the most manly languages. Just listen to some old stuff, not the modern shit raped by turks and faggots.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 0:48
>>23
I've heard that English is a very nasally sounding language to non-native speakers.
Think of a gay guy talking. That is what everybody else hears when they listen to us.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 1:06
>>27
Really? I always wanted to sound like an old queen, awesome.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 16:13
I spoke with a chick I met in Japan in Japanese on the phone the other day. A friend, who overheard the conversation and doesn't have a clue of how Japanese even sounds like, said I sounded like a mouse.
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Anonymous2008-08-30 1:54
Japanese is a really feminine sounding language I think. I only base that on all the native Japs I've talked to in real life. All the girls I've talked to have orgasmic sounding voices. I would fuck their voice. It's ridiculously cute. The guys however, tend to have a tough time sounding manly.
I think English sounds masculine. Honestly, our language is fucked up and all choppy.
For starters, someone I know once described American English as "sounding like they'd had too much to eat".
There's differences in British English too; think stiff-upper-lip upper-class English (for ppl who'd barely go for anything as manly as a fox-hunt (where the dogs do the killing, btw)) vs accents like Cockney from the the run-down East-End districts where you'd find the hooligans &stuff.
Out of all the Slavic languages, Macedonian would be the most "manly" sounding. The other South Slavic languages have a lot of rising and falling tones while Russian has a lot of palatalization which make them all sound a little more feminine. Macedonian also has a reputation of being quite hard and stiff in terms of phonetics among other Slavic speakers.
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Anonymous2008-09-28 8:57
>>37
sounds exactly like every other southern slav language imo.
Serbians always sound angry though...
>>15
I agree with this gentleman. French and German makes you want to cough out your lungs.
Where are spanish and japanese sounds are very soft, even the rolling Rs for spanish.
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Anonymous2008-10-08 16:46
Some Germanic lanugages sound quite masculine to me - the toning seems... I mean, imagine a girl speaking in swedish - she's probably hot, but I'd much rather have her speak something softer, more mellow - finnish, perhaps?
Turkish also sounds masculine because of their weird vowels or something I'm not sure.
I find Arabic... not feminine, but not manly at all - the toning I find atrocious. Perhaps gay is the word I'm seeking.
Russian, with the abundant "j"s and palatilization can sound feminine in a very nice way.
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Anonymous2008-10-28 12:13
Masculine:
English (American)
German (Standard)
French
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Russian
Korean
Arabic
Indonesian
Feminine:
English (British)
Spanish
German (Swiss)
Chinese (Shanghainese)
Italian
Japanese
Hindi
Dutch
>>45
No, French sounds like a person explaining a political platform in a very deliberate manner. Or a menu. Seriously, watch some French newscasters; you can just imagine them speaking very passionately but with great restraint about the hardships of the proletariat.
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Anonymous2008-11-01 19:56
>>43
Japanese language can sound both ways. For instance I often see females pronouncing でしょ somehow like "desiyo" while males say "desho" only (unless they're gay).
>>48
Mostly true, but Dutch pronounces the g more masculine, as if you're an aspiring death metal vocalist.
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Anonymous2008-12-08 7:23
Swedish looks very manly written down, but it sounds so fucking gay. Big disappointment.
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Anonymous2008-12-08 10:11
>>55
BTW, I've been doing the Rosetta Stone Swedish lessons.
Is that really how you're supposed to pronounce "sju"? They speak it like "hue" or sometimes like "flu", first time I listened to it I went WTF?
When they say sjuksköterska it's almost unintelligible. I kinda expected the "sj" to sound like "sh" or something, but it sounds just like a bunch of windy noises before the vowels.
>>56
"sj" represents the phoneme /ɧ/. This is by the way distinct to /h/, which is just like the English "h" in "hot."
Well, good luck on trying to pronounce this.
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Anonymous2008-12-08 20:22
>>57
This sounds a lot like the Rosetta Stone guy. >>58
I intend to. After I'm fluent in Swedish, I'll go for Norwegian, then Danish.
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Anonymous2008-12-11 10:24
>>58
Learn the 2 at the same time, they're pretty similar.
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Anonymous2008-12-12 0:07
>>59
Are you fucking kidding me? It's just a voiceless palatal-velar fricative. Give me something hard to reproduce! ;)
Shit that's a hard sound to make. Thank God I understand enough linguistics to read the wikipedia page, listen to the sound file included there, and then reproduce it based on my knowledge of what "palatal" "velar" "fricative" "dorsal" "central" and "voiceless" mean.
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Anonymous2008-12-12 0:23
>>62
Just a voiceless palatal-velar fricative? No way! Read the page from Wikipædia once again. also called a voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, voiceless postalveolar and velar fricative, or voiceless coarticulated velar and palatoalveolar fricative
Harder than it looks, isn't it?
However, personally I think that pronouncing any of these sounds would be far enough for a Swedish speaker to clearly understand you.
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Anonymous2008-12-12 4:34
>>61
Probably I will, good idea. >>62
Fuck off, faggot.
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Anonymous2008-12-12 9:54
>>56
Yeah, have fun with those.
Sju, skjuta, kök, chef, kjol. These are examples of some words I'll bet you'll have a lot of fun with. :)
Also, try this little tongue twister:
Sju sjuka sjömän sköttes av sjutton sköna sjuksköterskor.
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Anonymous2008-12-16 0:26
Korean = Manly as a Giant Penis Riding a Harley
its like Japanese but for men
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Anonymous2008-12-16 1:18
>>66
Penis Size Around The World
Country Flaccid Length(inches) Erect Length(inches)
United States 3.4 5.0
Germany - 5.6
Spain - 5.3
France 4.7 6.2
Japan 3.1 5.1
Brazil - 4.8
Italy 3.9 5.9
Venezuela 3.7 5.0
Mexico - 5.9
Greece - 4.8
India - 4.0
Saudi Arabia - 4.9
Chile - 5.5
Colombia 3.5 5.4
Korea (1) 2.7 3.7
Korea (2*) - 6.1
* The second Korean result was kindly provided by a reader who
says it comes from a study conducted on a college campus by The
Korean Consumer Protection Board. (We're currently trying to
track that study down.) http://www.altpenis.com/penis_news/global_penis_size_survey.shtml
VANK or Voluntary Agency Network of Korea is a non-governmental
South Korean organization made up of 16,000 volunteers,
including 1,000 youth members and 5,000 foreign members. It
was started in 1998 by Park Ki-tae and a group of 300 young
people concerned about the "distorted" image non-Koreans had of
Korea. In particular, VANK criticises major online websites,
including the CIA World Factbook, for posting "mistakes or
inappropriate expressions" about Korea,....
Is the Korean Consumer Protection Board part of VANK? lol