Top Ten Romantic Languages

The Top Ten
1 French

I'm French and it's funny cause in another top ten, some people were saying that it is "the most annoying" language because we speak fast but we actually don't. I'm proud to be French and I love my language even if it is hard and there are a lot of rules in grammar... It is an ancient beautiful language! French love songs about the city of love are my favourite! It makes me even more proud to see that my language is number one... Thank you for loving it and making it first romantic language!

- The survey was conducted by London-based Today Translations which polled over 320 of its linguists.
- After Italian, they found the second-most romantic language was French, which was way ahead of Spanish and English in joint third place.
- "Amour", the French word for love, has been voted the most romantic word in the world in a pre-Valentine's Day survey of language experts.

When I started learning French, I realized the beauty of the language as opposed to learning Spanish. I adore the accent and how romantic it sounds when speaking it, especially with other individuals. This language is also integral universally.

It's a way to express feeling and emotion in a way like no other. It originates from a place of great beauty. The lang. Is thought of highly and is respected for its ways of making someone know you truly care

2 Spanish

Spanish is the language of heaven. However, if you go to all those countries, you will hear a different accent, and even in the countries themselves you will hear a few different accents within. It's possible to remove accents to make it more professional, but some accents are sexy. The most prominent accents people like without a special order are: From Spain who is the mother country, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay. I'm Canadian, and it's easy for me to be neutral. I do love English, but it seems to me a more a practical language. I do also love French, and Italian. I love Italian women, especially from the south of Italy, just a comment here. I don't like the Chinese language, but I do like their music. Hindi is a language I really hate, even in music. I was trying to be honest, and I'm not a racist. I do speak English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Spanish is not just a form of communication, but numerous words that come together in a form of song. As native speakers have conversations, you naturally hear every other word rhyme. As a native speaker, I catch the phrases every now and then and see why people use them as melodies of songs. Italian, French, and English (when spoken correctly) are easy to be noticed with this as well. I am sure if I was to understand other languages I would see this in them as well. Spanish sounds so fluid though, and many of my friends ask me to speak it all the time and are trying to learn it.

For many south american people Japanese sounds too bad (except for the awfulls j-poppers), english is too come on and is a soft german, german is a military language (then english more or less), Italian maybe the most romantic but exaggerate, is too soft, maybe french is the best one but I had lessons of french and when I compare, spanish is more similar to italian. But it depense on what kind of spanish for example Mexico FD, Lima, Paraguay, Bolivia and ecuador have a beautiful pronounciation. In my opinion those spanish languages that have an african heritage sounds bad.

I agree that Spanish is by far the most romantic language, but I disagree with some of the above comments. I feel that Mexico has the best accent, certain parts do at least. This is probably because it's closest to our English and all consonants are pronounced. In Puerto Rican speakers usually switch the R and L and bunch words together, as do Cubans and a lot of other countries, they also tend to speak faster or seem faster and harder to understand because of this... Spaniards tend to have a bit of a lisp. I am part Spanish so I am being objective... I do agree at how descriptive and poetic one expresses themselves in Spanish, I sometimes think of things in Spanish and then translate to English when I want to melt a special lady's heart...

3 Portuguese

Portuguese is a beautiful language on earth to me. It's like love but in a language. I think it should be #1 because it's so beautiful. I speak that language everyday with my parents! It's beautiful and amazing!

Portuguese, from Portugal or from Brazil, is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Listen to the music of the language, feel the way each word is pronounced and you will fall in love with portuguese

Portuguese (from Brazil mainly) it's a very beaultiful language, you feel like every word is materializing, so captivating! If people give a chance, they would understand that it's a romantic language (although it is difficult). Try to listening MPB (Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Maria Gadu, Marisa Monte) and you will see.

Awesome language! Expecially Brazilian Portuguese is very more sweet and hot than Portuguese from Portugal. Who don't like is because don't know. Try to hear Brazilian music, Sure, this language deserves in the top 5

4 Italian

Here I found comment about an American talking about Italian landscapes compared American ones, come on guy, American landscapes are definitively hundreds times more wonderful than Italian landscapes, which are so monotonous.
And concerning the romanticism of Italian language, just I do prefer hear a nice fart.

As an American I am not exposed to the amount of beauty and true love that is brought through the harsher landscapes of the land. In Italy I see a world that could never be seen here in America and I realized that if the native people of the italian landscapes actualy looked up and saw where they were they would realize that they are the holders of true beauty. Making them cherish other beautiful things so much more than the people of my country.

Italian is a romantic language as well as being a 'sexy' language. Having the closest dialect to Latin also makes this language interesting and romantic. It truly is a beautiful and not too hard to learn language and can help you learn other romantic languages too, such as French and Spanish.

Oh, come on! French and Spanish sound great, but Italian is on another level entirely. Just listening to two people converse in Italian on no matter what subject, without understanding a single word of it, is pleasing enough to make it your hobby.

5 Japanese

The Japanese is the most romantic language for me, because each ideogram contains a story in which you can identify yourself. The love in Japan is a thing very amazing and ideal, isn't an everyday thing, it is said "I love you" only to the person with whom you want to spend the rest of life. I'm Italian, I think my language is very romantic, but more so than the Japanese. Konnichiwa!

Seriously why don't people think this is the best most romantic language in the world? If you ever hear the conversation in high school girls group you'll love it!
Further more Japanese is the only language I know that very lack in swear words so, they cannot really say a bad thing because there's no bad word to use! This language is so awesome!

The Japanese language, (I am learning currently) is more beautiful then what I thought. When I talk in Japanese, I seem... Younger, and I'm in my late teens. Italian is nowhere near romantic in my opinion. French is only on here due to stereotype's on T.V.. Spanish is kinda... Ugly in my opinion.

Japanese in my opinion is the best language for singing. It's unique because all syllables are open, and even n sound is syllabic so it sounds like a vowel in songs... I haven't found a language that would suited for singing better then Japanese. (some Polynesian languages have some similar qualities in the way their syllables are built (for example Maori), but unfortunately these languages are mostly dying out). Japanese culture and science is very rich and in many ways unique too. I think Japanese is very romantic (except for gangster speech... Like.. Kora teme wa dare the! Ore wa dare the to omou.. Etc) but ladies usually don't use such kind of language, and gentlemen too. So Japanese is the best for singing, very romantic and pleasant to listen to. Rap is the only thing Japanese language is bad at=) But I don't care about it, because I hardly listen to rap. Well it doesn't mean that every song in Japanese is nice, no.. Not at all.. There are tones of bad ones.. But tones of good ...more

6 Greek

Greek is the mother of languages! It is a language that has expressed all sorts of emotions from time immemorial. Think Homer.
In its modern version, it is a very rich language which can date back millenia. It is the language of music, theater, poetry, science, architecture, philosophy, logic, the New Testament and so much more.
With a history like that, all other languages pale in comparison.
The vocabulary is extensive and is used by many other languagrs. So in essence, many people speak Greek, without even knowing it.
It is a "whole" language as my mother says, and not a "half" one. She means all syllables are pronounced. Each vowel, consonant and dipthong get equal respect and treatment by being pronounced in Greek. No silent letters here.
There is so much beauty in Greece's literary legacy. Not only the ancient writings, but modern writers such as Elytis, Kavaphis, and Katzanzakis. In fact, Katzanzakus, was considered a "glossoplastis" a creator of language of ...more

Very smooth flowing and romantic, you get a feeling for how ancient and developed of a language Greek really is! Just listen to anything by Nikos Vertis or Hristos Holidis and you'll see!

Sexiest Language in the world! '

I speak Greek too my wife all the time an she has
No idea what I'm saying but she loves it

7 Korean

Obviously this site is tilted toward western languages. Most people here are westerners who aren't familiar with eastern languages. How else can anyone pick English or Greek ahead of Korean? Lol. I mean German is related to English but it rated lower. And my ears dislike the sound of gutteral languages like Arabic or Hebrew. My throat hurts trying to pronounce it.
Meanwhile I find Korean to be extremely expressive and romantic smooth sounding language. Korean is pronounced just way it's written unlike many western languages. And I found it easy to learn it only has 24 alphabets. I heard it's the most scientific language in the world.

Korean is really special even if your Korean boyfriend will yell at you with the "yah! " or even "Chuguleh", "Micheosso? " and when you are suppose to be angry instead you will find him cute and you will or you will just run into his arms and give him a passionate and long french kiss! Well it's my opinion!

Moreover their past or present Ballad song are SUBLIME, I found interesting beautiful song even if I was born in 1997. Korean men singers have very deep voice. Notable men artists: Lee Seung Chul, Fly to the Sky, Tim, Jo Sung Mo, Kim Dong Ryeol, Kim Bum so...

Korean is the most easy and scientific language... at least for me.

I'm half Korean, half British. And probably cause I was adopted to Texas, I never spoke Korean OR even heard Korean until I was like, thirteen.

So I started learning the language when 'Gangnam style' was a huge hit, and it sounds so sweet. Maybe it's in my blood? Or something... And when I use it, or hear it, it makes me feel like I'm respected, and I'm respecting other people.

Echo the comments... it is also the only written and spoken language that was wholly created by the 1st emperor of Korea. It had not evolved as other languages have done in a natural way. Prior to the invention of Korean, their country relied on the Chinese in language, arts and all things cultural. The first emperor did their country a huge favor.

8 English

The thing about English is that we have SO MUCH flexibility that almost every other language does not have. We can mess with our own rules so much and have it still make perfect sense. We can abuse word play when it comes to flirting, we can change the tone of our voice in so many different ways, English is just so damn flexible, it's not even funny. There are so many ways that we can flirt and turn people on that other languages cannot do because they are a lot more constrained by their very strict rules that English doesn't really have. VERY difficult language to master, but extremely easy to pick up and learn the basics. We just use so much slang and so much witty word play that you can't really learn it unless you're experiencing it.

English is not THE most romantic sounding language in the world, but it does not deserve ninth place. English is far to popular and widespread to not be considered in at least the top 5! Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish and then English. English, though extremely difficult to learn, opens up an innumerable amount of phonetic freedom when honed and used properly. English is by far in the top 5!

Can when not argue about the fact that English is now a Worlwide language? if you say "I love you" no matter how bad your accent is people will understand immediately and wherever you are... plus. Books and novels in English ARE WAY WAY more romantic in English than in French. I speak French perfectly, their idea of romance is way too kinky and awkward. So I disagree with those who say that French is romantic. No IT'S NOT.

Let's be serious. The only ones that beat English are Spanish French and Italian ( maybe Portuguese depending on the speaker) English is at worst the 5th most romantic language in the world. Eloquent speakers can use the language to create unmatched beauty just like Shakespeare used to do.

9 German

When Germans want to sound cute speaking German, they do a fantastic job. Very underrated and misunderstood language!

This one should be at the top, the only reason it isn't is because of the stereotype on it that it's just big and loud.

The most romantic language in my opinion.. Sexy accent. The way germans roll the letter 'r' is just so attractive to me!

Amazing language, so many different words to express oneself.

10 Arabic

Poetry was inspired by arabic the older the language the more original! It definitely shouldn't be 25th French and Italian have massive arabic influence historically and sharazad still remains the best story teller of all time or one of! Not to mention also many many Arabian poets not appreciated today because of bias!

Simply about this language, that all of its rights has been demolished because of political and religious reasons. This language must be the first romantic language as you are able to express yourself well in. Arabs have the most romantic expressions and phrases over the world.

One of the only ancient languages that is still used commonly, every word can have 100 meanings to it, a language that may sound odd to outsiders, but to those who understand it realize it's a language that purely comes from the heart.

Arabic poetry and love stries are by far, the most romantic I have ever encountered. The way the words can wrap you up in the story is fantastic. Just a three paragraph narrative can take me to tears if its written in arabic. Pure beauty and magic.

The Contenders
11 Romanian

I have a Romanian boyfriend, and know have to admit, I sometimes ask him to speak in Romanian to me, cause it's so darn romantic. He actually proposed in Romanian. And I say this as a person who grew up just outside of Madrid, Spain.

I agree completely... well described
If you try and explain some Romanian words, they are impossible to do so.
Making it the most beautiful language!

Romanian language is the most related to Latin language and sounds very beautiful. So, Romanian is my favorite language in the world!

Romanian language is actually the original Latin not the other way around... All Latin Languages are borrowed from Romanian language..

12 Hindi

In Hindi you can find word for each and every thing in the world. Other than this it gives respect to each and every individual irrespective of their age, qualification and religion. It's not like English in which everyone is either uncle or aunty.

This language has it's own beauty but person who don't know it how he/she could be able to vote it. After all it needs beauty to find beauty So, learn this language then you will realize I was faking.

Its Hindi that admires beauty through its songs at least listen to them.

Hindi is a beautiful language and one can understand this beauty only if you understand it. if you want to learn Hindi, don't learn the typical new aged Hindi which has now been modified. The real ethnic Hindi and its sweetness lies in the languages used till a few years earlier. Anyone interested should listen to some nice melodies of Sonu Nigham, Jagjit Singh and a few more. And make sure to read the translations in your language to realize it's beauty

Hindi is one of those soft languages that your ears melt to hear. As somebody mentioned already, each syllable resonates a kind of softness that make its slang and literature both highly sweet and pleasing to hear.

And accept it, you all, you can't curse in Hindi. It sounds out of place.

Love has no language... If you love someone than you can say everything without saying anything. Although everyone like their own language. So I'll say Hindi is my language which is mother of every other language as our culture is the oldest in the world.

13 Persian

The only other language that might come remotely close to Persian in this respect might be French. Spanish? English? Russian? Korean? Are you kidding me? These languages sound mechanical or low quality in comparison to Persian. Persian is simply an art. I've been learning Persian for only one year, and I still can't understand majority of words; however Persian poetry is simply amazing. The Rhythm, the sound, the way the words are juxtaposed is simply unrivaled. From what I understand, they have more poetry literature than the whole Europe combined. Shakespeare sounds armature in comparison to some of the great Persian poets.

Is true.
Persian is the best. If we want or not. I consider that it could be cause of originality. You now.. Persian have been made from humanity creation childhood. It has not been created by persons. It completely made from any sounds which we make it even in our childhood crying. Into the history. However even the most Persians do not know about it.
Persian would be your preferred language whenever you learn too much languages. Link Linux, you should know others, to comprehend what the real is. All indo Arian languages are beautiful because they have a beautiful mother call Persian.

Are you kidding me?! Korean, Romanian and Hindi are among the top ten and Persian and Latin are not?! Then I really have no idea what you mean by Romance! Persian alone has more masterpiece of romantic poems than your whole top ten languages combined. It is so poetic and beautiful that you should really really try hard not to be poetic. The first sentence that I wrote in Persian is most beautiful than many of the English poems that we learned at school. And Latin?! Don't even get me started on this one. !

There are so many different ways one can say "I love you" or "sweetheart" or "my love" in Persian. Just using different combinations make me sound like a love poet. The greatest love poets of all time (Rumi) wrote in Persian and to this day people translate it into their native tongue, but its original wording is so beautifully written it loses some value once translated. Not only that but the culture is very warm and loving (if you ever visit you would know)

14 Latin

It's very structured and logical language and that's why it's very beautiful and so romantic. Because it is very logically consistent and structured, it's very well suited for poetry. As a linguist, I think best romantic languages are;
1. Classical Latin,
2. Classical Greek,
3. Old Persian (Avestan),
4. French,
5. Italian.

Latin is the most beautiful ancient language. Even till this day it has such a smooth sound. Like Italian. English and Spanish combined.

My older brother is learning Latin and I know some words, and they sound musical.

Dulce et decorum est, uxori carae mori
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's dear wife

Enough said.

15 Swedish

Swedish is just fantastic.

If you summed up all the things sweden is good at and gave it a number, it would most likely end up as one of the top 5 nations.

I mean, highest quality of Life in the World. Biggest gamer population in any country. One of the top 3 countries with the lowest infant mortality rate.

Is ranked within the top 20-10 wealthiest and richest nations (on Earth).
Is one of the top 5 nations with the best Healthcare (of which is founded by the stat, ).

And I mean, the language is just awesome

Wonderful language and wonderful people! Beautiful Country!

Swedish all the way!

16 Tagalog

Filipino language is easy to learn and it sounds so beautiful. Its grammar applies to all cases unlike other languages that have many exceptions. It uses same characters with the English plus two extras so 28 all in all. What you write is what you read. You can always read and spell the every its words very easily. It shows equality between men and women because we do not have pronouns to represent gender, "he" or "she" is just "siya" etc. It can also absorb easily any foreign words to be used in your sentences. It is also ever dynamic and can always create new version of it which can be understood easily by its native listeners. Some of them are jejemons, g-words, gay linggo's etc. Some languages have to change lot in their words to make it formal or polite, but in Filipino, you just have to add "po" as your last word in every sentence and that's it. English and Spanish speakers might get easily to learn this because many of their words were already incorporated to Filipino language. ...more

I'm not a native speaker of Tagalog but I thik it is romantic because unlike many other Austronesian languages (Malayo-Polynesian languages), Tagalog has almost no "glottal stops". This sound rarely exist in a Tagalog expression or sentence/s which makes it sound more spontaneous and soft. The huge number of Spanish words added more romance-like feel to Tagalog. Sometimes Tagalog looks like Spanish, example "Mas responsable si Jose kay Pedro. "

Tagalog is really a romantic language... Like... "Mahal kita" and filipinos are also very serious while saying those words... Even I speak more than one language... I still consider tagalog the most romantic language... For me
It's more romantic than Korean..

Tagalogs have romance seriously, okay. And romantic it definitely stands for. Love that Tagalog is one amazing mix of culture, Asian, American, and Spanish all. Therefore, the romanticism of language is definitely deep and is wide range.

17 Ukrainian

Ukrainian language is very gentle and colorful. If you even shout at somebody in Ukrainian, it sounds as if you make a declaration of love))) Ukrainian can sound like gentle whispering as well as singing of nightingale. That's why among Ukrainian-speaking people Ukrainian is called 'the nightingale's language'.
Besides Ukrainian songs are widely considered as an outstanding contribution to the world's culture. Just find them on the Internet and enjoy listening)))

The most melodic, soft and beautiful languages in the world. You must to listen to Ukrainian songs and you would definitely understand what I am talking about.

You won't find another language where you can describe something in more than 10 ways. And only if you are a native speaker you can catch a slight difference between those words

The most beautiful language no matter! I am Ukrinian/Russian/Bulgarian and I speak all these language and the most beautiful is ukrainian

18 Russian

People say Russian is "violent" and "angry" but I think it is beautiful and romantic. I would much rather be spoken to in Russian than French by my lover.

I'm Russian and have been told it sound very violent but to me it sound so sweet and romantic.

Russian sounds like a violent language and I like it very much. It's too much strong

Very unique and romantic

19 Norwegian

Norwegian is such a beautiful language. The people in Norway are also very nice and their accent makes them sound even friendlier.

Just like the country itself, Norwegian is the most beautiful and gorgeous language in the world.

Norwegian is a lovely language. You'll fall in love when you hear this attractive accent.

20 Tahitian

Its awesome bruh

21 Hawaiian
22 Vietnamese

Unlike other languages, Vietnamese has 6 tons. Therefore, every sentence is produced, especially by the people from Hanoi - capital of Viet Nam, is completely as beautiful as a song.
Vietnamese grammar is really flexible but sophisticated, for example, in one sentence, if you change its word position, you may have different meaning. The diversity of personal pronoun also contributes to the uniqueness of language, when choosing pronouns to use, you indicate your attitude to your counterpart in communication : love, hate, angry, despicable, privilege, power, status...

Songs, Poets, and any art forms...Yes! This language is absolutely colorful & stunning.

Its unbelievable richness in vocabulary and sounds make it super attractive!

6 different intonations, a variety of means to depict the extent of a word (e. G, roughly 11 ways to vary the extent of darkness), Vietnamese is a diamond in the the world's spoken language heritage.

23 Celtic
24 Chinese

It's actually a very sentiment language with lots of literature. No wonder why its subject bases on writing knowledge and literature than grammar, and the westerners find it so hard.

As a native mandarin speaker, I'm more than proud of my language. Considering its cultural richness, I would say it's more than just a language, it's a book of history.

Mandarin is a much softer dialect. Whereas Canonese is much more rough and harsh sounding. Just about every single word ends in a vowel, and the intonations are much more gentle.

Once of the oldest language, it's rich in history and when you learn the culture, you will love and appreciate this beautiful language.

25 Melayu

Indeed Malay sounds much more gorgeous, beautiful, heartwarming, soothing, gentler, and smoother! It sounds even more romantic than the so-called romance languages and more modern and awesome than any asian languages! Just search the youtube video for Malay singer, Sheila Majid, and her "Lagenda" as well as "Datanglah ke dalam mimpiku"! So beautiful! Then search for "Sinaran" by Sheila Majid too, really cool! In sum, Malay is really a flexible language which sounds great in any music genre! If you search for any Malay Disney dubs, not only Malay sounds noble and aesthetic but the voice casts is also really adorable and gorgeous! One of my favorite moments from Malay Snow White is "With a smile and a song"; look it up in youtube (just type "with a smile and a song malay", it's really beautiful!

When my malay boyfriends read to me malay poems, it really tugs on my heart strings because the language itself is just so beautiful and in addition to the man himself who is reading it, I can just fall in love in an instant.

100 times better sounding than retarted tagalog, come on people.!
I'm expat living in indonesia and I've been visiting manila so many times. I can't stand people who speak tagalog

I like it.. Even though I'm Indonesian and most Indonesians hate Malay, but for me it is more smoother and it flows better than Indonesians.. There's many word you can adress yourself too.. One of top unique Asians languages

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