why is chinese so ANNOYING to my ears???

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: CaseTragedy
more high pitches.




i hate vietnamese--once i sat through a vietnamese concert--i had to jab myself repeatedly in the ear to lessen the pain.

LOL! I'm Vietnamese & I too have to do that occasionally. It all depends on the person, because there are many soft spoken Viet people & dialect sound surprisingly sweet to the ears.

 

[Crappopotamus]

cantonese is my first language. heh. manderin sounds like slurry cantonese to me. i dont have a problem w/ jap or korean. jap is kinda sing song and a lot of 'domo'. so damn polite. korean i hear is usually from pretty girls so i cant complain

about the whole loudness issue: chinese people are really loud. haha. when everyones loud, you ahve to be loud.

 

[slycat]

Harshest chinese dialect: Hokkien/Fujian

Its like they are fighting/arguing all the time.

 

[bleeb]

"SAY PAHPO"

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
Korean and Japanese don't annoy me at all. They both have solid pronunciations (hence their korean/japanese rap actually sounds very good without having to understand it)

They're both calm as well, consistant in tones. They can sound very soft and pleasing to the ears when they say a sentence like... "I would like to drink coffee today."

if you were to say the same thing in vietnamese/chinese, it'd probably sound like this:

"AIII WoulD liiiiiiiiIiiIike tOOo Dr*i*nk! coFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE todaiiiii!!!"

ugh. hope you get my drift.

zin tien, wo shihuan he ga-fei.

Pretty soft to me...

 

[lchyi]

Yea, chinese women always sound mad when they're talking all fast. I guess it depends what part you're from, my whole family is like turtle-slow speakers but when I go to China town I hear some pretty harsh dialects (in Mandarin). Cantonese is a different story.

 

[Noirish]

You just don't know what you are talking about.
There are so many chinese dialects, you can't just negate all of them because of a single one.
However, it's true about Cantonese, it's one of the loudest, most annoying, common chinese dialects used.
Mandarin, Japanese, Korean are all nice dialects though.

 

[Gulzakar]

I'm the same way about Spanish.

 

[shopbruin]

WHAT THE?!

i speak cantonese also and i find it a lot calmer than mandarin. mandarin is harsh to listen to with the shh and the chhhh all the time.

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
I'm the same way about Spanish.

What the? That's extremely odd... I speak Spanish fluently and I can't even imagine how anyone would think the language is harsh to the ears...

 

[Banana]

1) The people were speaking in an annoying manner--happens with any language--I remember my "elders" chastising me for speaking in an uncouth manner not befitting my noble lineage
2) Chinese (all dialects) sounds alien and harsh for people who did not grow up with it. Again--this applies to some other languages as well.

 

[Banana]

Originally posted by: kt

zin tien, wo shihuan he ga-fei.

Uh . . . my Mandarin is really bad, but I'd reply: "Go to Starbucks."

 

[Chaotic42]

Heh, I agree. I don't like the way Vietnamese sounds either. Too... weird.

 

[Cougar]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace

Originally posted by: Whisper
Mandarin is really sing-songy, yeah...but Cantonese can seem pretty harsh. A girl that I was talking to spoke both Cantonese and Dutch, and the two were fairly similar as far as harshness went.

However, Korean isn't much better. It's maybe not as audibly assaulting when you aren't used to it, but it's still pretty dayam throaty. Then again, I don't think I've heard a language yet that annoys me just by being spoken. Vietnamese can come close sometimes, but even it can sound nice depending on who's speaking.

on the contrast, you know what sounds really really sweet?

greek coming out of my gf's lips.. (she's physically korean but adopted by greek parents, speaks fluent greek.. HOT!)

A greek speaking korean...interesting mix. Greek can sound sweet unless it's your mom yelling at you for something then it's time to head for the hills. Oh, and a single greek is tolerable, but the volume grows exponentially with each additional person....think "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

 

[tk149]

I find ebonics more irritating than any other language. Takalog (Filipino) is a close second. But it really depends on how loud the speaking person is.

 

[V00DOO]

Seriouly when I hear people speaking Korean, it sounds like they are spitting. Anyway, two chatting chicks are annoying no matter what language they speak.

 

[brtspears2]

From my experience:

Mandarin - la, nee-ga (think about that when theres an african american around...) constantly over and over
Cantonese - ahhh at the end of sentences to make it sound more important

 

[geckojohn]

I really like the way Vietnames sounds... i like all the ups and downs.

 

[geckojohn]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
From my experience: Mandarin - la, nee-ga (think about that when theres an african american around...) constantly over and over Cantonese - ahhh at the end of sentences to make it sound more important

what does "la, nee-ga" mean? I hear it all the time too...

 

[Noirish]

Originally posted by: 1YellowPeril

Originally posted by: kt

zin tien, wo shihuan he ga-fei.

Uh . . . my Mandarin is really bad, but I'd reply: "Go to Starbucks."

Oh...
Couldn't quite get the last 3 words.
Maybe it should be "hur ka-fei"?

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
For me, it's not so much that it's annoying, it just sounds so harsh. Almost like listening to German or something.

I find it annoying when people say stuff like "I'm black, so it's okay for me to have negative attitudes associated with black people."

i agree with everything this man said.

 

[RayH]

Next time try this, followed by any combination of this, this or this.

 

[LOLyourFace]

what does 'ki mu chi' mean in japanese?

i hear it in jap porn all the time.. *runs away*

 

[Noirish]

Originally posted by: RayH
Next time try this, followed by any combination of this, this or this.

LOL.
Too bad most people wouldn't understand.

 

[Noirish]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
what does 'ki mu chi' mean in japanese?

i hear it in jap porn all the time.. *runs away*

<-- No, I didn't hear that from porn
<-- No, I don't really speak Japanese
However, it means "Feel Good", people can correct me.