LunaMouse:I have a certain fondness for Mandarin and Norwegian, but I'm hardly qualified to say whether either is particularly soft or not. I just like listening to people speak in those languages.

Makes me feel all happy inside.

Mandarin is a lovely language. I really enjoy trying to speak it. The tones make you feel like you're singing when all you're doing is trying to communicate. Unfortunately, I constantly mispronounce them/get them mixed up and confuse anyone I'm speaking to. I think this is the main reason I gave up on Chinese.

LunaMouse:I suppose given the choice of those listed, I'd pick English, but I tend to have a great deal of soft poetic rhythm floating through my brain in English.

Mmm, come to think of it, English has that kind of rhythm that you can't just learn in a text book, even more so with Middle English. Maybe we should go back to Middle English?

Thou seest the catte nu over there = Thu see-est // the ca-tte // nu ov-er there = 3 syllables 3 syllables 4 syllables, how nice would it be to have that rhythm in modern English? Nowadays it's 'Hey look at that cat!'