{"id":14801,"date":"2017-11-16T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2017-11-16T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:13:55","slug":"sounds-good-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14801","title":{"rendered":"Sounds good to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever learnt a language just because you like the way it sounds?<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons for learning a language discussed by John McWhorter is this TED talk:<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width:854px\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/john_mcwhorter_4_reasons_to_learn_a_new_language\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He talks about the joys of getting your tongue round the sounds of other languages, and mentions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/khmer.htm\">Khmer<\/a>, with its large inventory of vowels.<\/p>\n<p>Which languages sound good to you?<\/p>\n<p>Are there any particular sounds or combinations of sounds that really appeal to you (in any language)?<\/p>\n<p>I like listening to languages with clicks, such as Xhosa and Zulu, and also to ones with ejectives, such as Georgian. I also like listening to and speaking tonal languages, like Mandarin and Cantonese.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, my favourite language in terms of sounds, is Swedish.<\/p>\n<p>Other sound favourites include Japanese, Finnish, Italian, Icelandic and Swahili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever learnt a language just because you like the way it sounds? This is one of the reasons for learning a language discussed by John McWhorter is this TED talk: He talks about the joys of getting your tongue round the sounds of other languages, and mentions Khmer, with its large inventory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,109,115,124,129,10,13,66,67,81,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-finnish","category-georgian","category-icelandic","category-japanese","category-language","category-language-learning","category-swahili","category-swedish","category-xhosa","category-zulu-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}