Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You can learn 150+ languages (from the gorgeous to the gross) with quality native-speaking teachers on italki🎉. Buy $10 get $5 for free for your first lesson using my code ROBWORDS
Web: go.italki.com/robwords
App: go.italki.com/robwords
Is 🇮🇹Italian delightful and 🇩🇪German disgusting? Is 🇨🇳Mandarin a melodic mess? In this episode, Rob meets the linguists who've tried to work out which are the world's prettiest and ugliest languages. The results are sure to surprise you.
==LINKS==
Niklas and the team's study: researchgate.net/publication/370072268_Do_some_languages_sound_more_beautiful_than_others
Daya: italki.com/en/teacher/2412143
Bank: italki.com/en/teacher/7470575
Klingon Style: youtube.com/watch?v=CayMeza487M
Jesus Film: jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus.html/tok-pisin.html
Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok:
robwords.com
twitter.com/robwordsYT
tiktok.com/@robwords
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Good and bad reputations
2:30 ITALIAN - The most beautiful?
3:40 italki
4:50 GERMAN - The ugliest?
6:09 EXPERIMENT
7:32 RESULTS
8:07 Disliked languages
9:45 THAI - A tonal language
11:05 Languages we like
11:36 MOST BEAUTIFUL familiar languages
12:30 TOK PISIN - A popular Creole
13:44 How German did
14:28 SIDE EFFECTS
15:23 The ideal voice
16:38 CONCLUSION
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
#languages #linguistics #breakthrough
You can learn 150+ languages (from the gorgeous to the gross) with quality native-speaking teachers on italki🎉. Buy $10 get $5 for free for your first lesson using my code ROBWORDS
Web: go.italki.com/robwords
App: go.italki.com/robwords
Is 🇮🇹Italian delightful and 🇩🇪German disgusting? Is 🇨🇳Mandarin a melodic mess? In this episode, Rob meets the linguists who've tried to work out which are the world's prettiest and ugliest languages. The results are sure to surprise you.
==LINKS==
Niklas and the team's study: researchgate.net/publication/370072268_Do_some_languages_sound_more_beautiful_than_others
Daya: italki.com/en/teacher/2412143
Bank: italki.com/en/teacher/7470575
Klingon Style: youtube.com/watch?v=CayMeza487M
Jesus Film: jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus.html/tok-pisin.html
Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok:
robwords.com
twitter.com/robwordsYT
tiktok.com/@robwords
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Good and bad reputations
2:30 ITALIAN - The most beautiful?
3:40 italki
4:50 GERMAN - The ugliest?
6:09 EXPERIMENT
7:32 RESULTS
8:07 Disliked languages
9:45 THAI - A tonal language
11:05 Languages we like
11:36 MOST BEAUTIFUL familiar languages
12:30 TOK PISIN - A popular Creole
13:44 How German did
14:28 SIDE EFFECTS
15:23 The ideal voice
16:38 CONCLUSION
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
#languages #linguistics #breakthrough
