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Your favourite language?

English 131 37.11%
 
Japanese 51 14.45%
 
Korean 4 1.13%
 
Italian 18 5.10%
 
Spanish 43 12.18%
 
French 21 5.95%
 
Russian 13 3.68%
 
Swedish 4 1.13%
 
Chinese 6 1.70%
 
Other (Post! :D) 61 17.28%
 
Total:352
Mnementh on 15 October 2012
Chris Hu said:
Sal.Paradise said:
Sam3o said:

Well, 400 million views of "GANGNAM STYLE" would like to have a word with you

LOL! Just kidding.

"Gangnam Style"

Spot the English.


I would love to see a song that is completly in a foreign language get 400 million views.  But most people still prefer their music in English.  Take me as an example I grew up in Germany as a native German speaker but even before I knew a good amount of English I prefered my music in English and so did most of my country men the time I lived in Germany 1972-1988 the majority of songs that where popular and high on the music charts where in English.

99 Luftballons

But yes, because most musicians and most music industry is in english-speaking countries. People usually do like songs in every language possible, because usually they don't care about the lyrics.



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mai on 15 October 2012

There's actually a comprehensive (sort of) research by George Weberr on importance of various languages:
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm

The article is rather old though. Not sure if importance counts as the best, but still interesting.

 

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usrevenge on 15 October 2012

English is pretty much perfect.
"romance" languages give gender to objects
Russian looks like scribble
asians sound ridiculous
germans mad all the time.