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Does any language come close to Italian in its aesthetics and rhythm? Anonymous Fri Oct 13 09:41:25 2017 No.10142062 [Reply] [Original]

Watching videos of people speaking Italian on YouTube, listening to my family speaking Italian, reading literature or Italian poetry etc - all of it is just so aesthetic. Even general conversing sounds so rhythmic like poetry. I have been learning Italian for a few months now and it has been really enjoyable to learn. Having studied French previously the learning curve has been very small. Discuss.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 10:27:57 2017 No.10142172 It's just another vulgar dialect of Latin

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 12:27:38 2017 No.10142514 >>10142172 latin would be 100% useless and gay if it werent for ecclesiastical writings. the roman empire was a cultural black hole.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 20:04:17 2017 No.10143670 https://youtube.com/watch?v=BhZ6qH552oU

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 20:59:55 2017 No.10143801 old english best english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanuomTvKwE

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:01:30 2017 No.10143805 >>10142514 This guy's never read Apuleius

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:02:55 2017 No.10143812 >>10143801 That was actually pretty great

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:05:36 2017 No.10143819 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDnmGnYb6I

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:05:44 2017 No.10143820 >>10142062 Once your Italian gets good enough check out the great Italian poets of the 20th century: Montale, Saba, Zanzotto, Ungaretti, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:08:11 2017 No.10143831 >>10142062 You've haven't lived until you've had a Latina qt whisper sweet nothings into your ear in Spanish

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:09:52 2017 No.10143838 >>10142172 Read De Vulgari Eloquentia pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:11:01 2017 No.10143845 >>10142062 Pyccкий

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:19:16 2017 No.10143873 >>10143819 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3-miucC_28

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:21:29 2017 No.10143879 >>10143873 >>10143819 blocks your path https://youtu.be/3mhDFpMRmH0

Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:25:02 2017 No.10143894

Standard Arabic comes close. It does not flow like Latin and Latin derivates, but it has it's own cadence. In everyday speech, it's like a horse in a lazy canter. In poetic reading, the horse gallops and leaps and pauses and gallops again. It's punctate, and I particularly like the fact that it is physically impossible to speak it without annunciating every letter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:37:58 2017 No.10143930 >>10143873 >>10143819 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ZazDkxzk0

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 22:20:13 2017 No.10144035 >>10143819 >>10143873 >>10143930 >>10143879 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wKtmJlOb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8CcmMXWmaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzo-qe6jxOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbKCvmhEs8

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 22:21:39 2017 No.10144041 >>10142062 doesn't english have a healthy mixture of many great qualities of many langues?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 22:26:20 2017 No.10144059 File: 19 KB, 620x447, WUHOHHHH.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10142062 This is where you list Italian poets you've been reading. C- post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 23:23:36 2017 No.10144215 English is the best language.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 01:16:04 2017 No.10144571 grandiosa bellisimo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 01:46:19 2017 No.10144676 >>10144215 This. If you were brought up on English you are simply a liar if you don't agree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 01:50:18 2017 No.10144686 I wish plebs would stop creaming themselves over the fucking Romance languages and start appreciating the poetic qualities of German.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 01:56:23 2017 No.10144700 >>10142062 South Italians aren't white.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 02:32:41 2017 No.10144791 File: 18 KB, 200x251, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144700 Non-white people can be Italian.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 03:16:47 2017 No.10144886 >>10144700 im whiter than u fagit

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 03:28:52 2017 No.10144914 File: 53 KB, 480x480, 1496450453321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Spanish Japanese Cantonese

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 05:35:36 2017 No.10145133 File: 12 KB, 245x206, 48C85FA9-A9B4-4ADF-8F42-F82A8C3F5B3B-31890-000017E92B0358B9.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144700 Southern Italians are the last true Roman people. They built America for you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 13:42:51 2017 No.10146329 >>10143801 >Title is Hnaef's speech >female speaker

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