EDIT: Also, 10 vowels? What the HELL, Russian?
Hmm... aren't half like hard versions of the others or something?
Yeah, probably. I miss Arabic, though ;_; Only three vowels, and all of them were easy to pronounce.
Russkiy
is easy, though. :I
Ten vowels?
A, E, I, O, U.
The other five: Ya, Ye, Ы (the only one that's hard, and even then, it's not really), Yo, Yu.
Also, Russian swear words are the best.
I always feel like a minority in thinking that English is beautiful. It has an amazing rhythmic quality that isn't really exploited in most poetry. Since most English poetry is written as if it were in French.
I'll agree that its richness and clarity are absolutely phenomenal. I guess what I'm saying is that it can be used in beautiful or ugly ways, but it's so very big that it doesn't have a uniform quality to it.
It's kind of like owning a really, really good violin. For a beginning student, it's almost impossible to play beautifully, because it's too flexible. It's better to own a lower-quality violin, on which you can learn the basics of playing, because the resonance will be easier to exploit. Then you can learn to play violin in English.
I'm also with this crowd.
English is amazing, in part because it has the potential to express anything.
Loose grammar and loose pronunciation make it hard to pick up, but the end result is truly unique.