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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/publicat...
Daya: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/241...
Bank: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/747...
Klingon Style:    • KLINGON STYLE (Star Trek Parody of PS...  
Jesus Film: https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus...

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==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
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