• FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    15 days 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.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    15 days 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.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      15 days 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.