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: https://go.italki.com/robwords App: https://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: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370072268_Do_some_languages_sound_more_beautiful_than_others Daya: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/2412143 Bank: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/7470575 Klingon Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CayMeza487M Jesus Film: https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus.html/tok-pisin.html Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok: https://robwords.com/ http://twitter.com/robwordsYT http://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: https://bit.ly/46bGeYv #languages #linguistics #breakthrough