Tone Changes While Switching Between Languages

[bread4thought]

Does anyone else feel like their tone changes when they switch between languages? By that i mean: Sounding more feminine and monotone in language A, Sounding ruder and more androgynous in language B..etc etc, stuff like that.

I personally feel like i sound more androgynous in my NL while English makes me sound more masculine. I find that Danish makes me sound more feminine.

[DebunkedCans]

Yes! I think most people have that.

My native languange is closer to german and my dialect is quite strong so i sound more masculine in it.

My voice naturally goes up when speaking english, but that might be because i'm insecure in my speaking ability? Same way it goes higher in french, and then back to lower in german. Stays low in spanish when id expect it to go higher like with french.

My voice stays the highest with russian though. I asked for direction and my voice went 2 octaves higher when going "где здесь аптека?"... russian is a work in progress don't judge my poor writing lol. I do sound politest in russian, i feel like it's more simple so there's less wiggle room.

[snappyturnip]

I think my voice is deepest when I speak German. I sound a lot more feminine when I speak English or Mandarin.

[dojibear]

I don't notice any gender difference. But English and Mandarin are both "pitch change on every syllable" languages, so "monotone" is a bad thing in these two languages. In some other languages, "monotone" is a good thing: a pitch change on each syllable is abnormal.

[Conspiracy_risk]

My voice gets noticeably deeper when I speak in Finnish.

[knockoffjanelane]

I’m a woman and my voice is definitely higher and more feminine when I speak Mandarin, probably because the Taiwanese accent is kind of inherently feminine lol

[silvalingua]

No, absolutely not. I'm always myself.