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Perhaps? I may have heard it and don't remember. I have heard Swiss and Sweedish. (exchange students in HS) But, the majority of nordic languages have harsh consonants.
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I googled quickly and here's an example of spoken Finnish.

A poem that you can listen to in real-player format:
http://virtual.finland.fi/stream/kivi.wav.ram

Here are the words and all:
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/akivieng.html

Pronounciation varies in different parts of the country a lot.
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Kelly Antilles wrote:Perhaps? I may have heard it and don't remember. I have heard Swiss and Sweedish. (exchange students in HS) But, the majority of nordic languages have harsh consonants.
Swiss speak a very funny German/French/Italian, though. It's really almost a different language.
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My favoriate is English, because I speak it!

Anyway, I'd like to learn Japanese or German, by my parents made me take Spanish. Well, there's still college.
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Oberleutnant wrote:I googled quickly and here's an example of spoken Finnish.

A poem that you can listen to in real-player format:
http://virtual.finland.fi/stream/kivi.wav.ram

Here are the words and all:
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/akivieng.html

Pronounciation varies in different parts of the country a lot.
There are a lot of umlauts in Finnish. :) Way cool, though.
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Latin, its beautifully complex but dastardly simple. I love it.
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The main problem I have with german is that I cant type it. I cant get Umlauts over leters. could someone help me with that?

But I am in my second year of german and wil be visiting that fine country over the summer.
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My favourite language is profanity.
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My favorite literary languages are German and English, for opposite reasons. German because it has so many double meanings (with only 10,000 necessary words), and English because it is so specific and yet malleable. You can easily craft different sentences just by changing word orders or a few letters, and it is easy to specify exactly what is going on.
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I keep waiting for someone to say, "the language of LOVE". :twisted:
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