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As a bilingual or multilingual European; does your voice, accent, or intonation change when speaking different languages? (piefed.social)
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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Apparently my German sounds like I’m french, my english sounds like I’m australian, and my French sounds like I’m a rural farmer.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been told by French girls I sound like I'm mocking stuck up Parisians when I speak French.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm pretty sure I change my pitch depending on which language I'm speaking. Scandinavian languages go pretty low, English and German is somewhere in the middle, and in French and Italian I go pretty high out of some desperate hope that it will make me easier to understand. I'm not sure it helps much.

Intonation of course changes, though probably not enough. And I'm pretty sure someone from a village close to home could recognize traces of my accent no matter which language I'm trying to speak.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about you @Blaze@piefed.social

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for asking! Well, I think my voice changes between languages, I try to get an okayish accent in English, so that's a bit different. Same for Spanish. I feel like each language has its "register", so switching from one to the other induces some change.