re: Is English considered a pretty language by non-English speakers?

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In my opinion the best English accent is West Indian

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BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences

BBC news in pidgin

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Houston Flood: Double wahala as dam burst

On top of say hundreds of people still dey run from flooding wey tropical storm Harvey cause for di America city of Houston, Texas, one dam where water dey don burst, come overflow full ground.

At least nine people na im dem say don die so far, including six members from di same family wey be say flood troway their van, plus another man wey dey like over 60 years old ; im drown as e dey try swim to safe place.

Di matter don serious sotay President Donald Trump just land for Texas with im wife to take eye see everything for imself.

Governor Greg Abbott, say im want make President Trump understand wetin Texans dey go through, and di kind help wey dem need.

Mayor Sylvester Turner say di state don ask for help from di federal government "as soon as possible," to provide cots for baby dem, food and other things to help another 10,000 people wey dey area.

Mr Turner say dem no get choice but to ask di Federal Emergency Management Agency to enter di matter, because di main shelter for Texas get space for only 5,000 people.

But now e don pass 9,000 people wey dey squeeze inside there.

Im say officials go let people know where additional centers dey later today, so dat dem go fit find somewhere chook head put.

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We're definitely closer to the German end than French.

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No one considers American English to be pleasant so it's always been a little surprising the best and most popular lyrical music is in English

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Are you talking about rock and roll? R&R became popular b/c of the beat, not the words.

The language of opera is Italian -- b/c so many words end in vowels, which allows singers to hold notes melismatically

If you really dive into this subject you'll start to notice the rhythms of certain musics fit certain languages -- R&R is English, but Cajun music is French. I just listened to a 1956 version of "La Bamba" by Harry Belafonte, in English, set to a sort of calypso beat. Sometimes the words sound a bit awkward and don't fit the rhythm.

There's a later version of "La Bamba" in English by The Crickets, but the music is almost a straight surf-party beat w/only slight Latin influence. The words fit the rhythm much better.

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I was told that the Brits much prefer the Southern accent from the US. Said it's much softer and more pleasant to the ears

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That's b/c it's the closest to British English

If you want to hear what British English sounded like 250 years aho, go to the Appalachians and find an isolated community. With few non-British settlers and almost no blacks, Appalachian English has evolved far more slowly than British English.

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From what I've been told, English isn't a soft language like Spanish and Italian. But American English is harsher than British English. I was told that the Brits much prefer the Southern accent from the US. Said it's much softer and more pleasant to the ears.

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Basically this. English is as harsh to the ears, I'd imagine, as Russian, for example.

English and German share a bunch of similarities if I'm not mistaken. I would guess due to the Anglo-Saxons and Brits commingling for hundreds of years.

French sounds like a drunk person talking with a mouth full of marshmallows.

Spanish sounds like they aren't really saying anything because they speak too fricking fast.

German sounds like somebody is angry and really spitting out the words.

Italian and French sound marvelous when spoken by a soft voiced woman. And actually Korean does too--I only say this Bc Lady Reinicorn on Adventure Time is speaking Korean and it's lovely.

Anglo-Saxons were a Germanic tribe, who crushed the Britians and later the savage Viking raiders.

I have heard of this before but never actually heard the accent myself. Is it from the Tidewater region in Eastern Virginia or in the Carolinas? If I'm not mistaken it's almost extinct correct?