Does the tone of your voice change when you speak different language?
I speak Japanese as a native language and English as a second language. I think when I speak Japanese my voice will be softer and kinda more clingy than when I speak English. When I speak English, my voice gets deeper, faster, and sometimes shaper. It's partly because of my proficiency and fluence of my English, but I think a lot of people change their voice depending on what language you speak.
I'm sorry if these sentences are hard to read, but it's really curious topic for me, so I hope you guys leave a lot of comments!!
Thank you :)
Yes, Toshi it does!
Once I recorded my voice using English and Arabic, and there was a clear difference in my tone, so I guess you are not alone :)
I guess we are all in the same boat Toshi!!
Don't worry about that because I guess what's really important to be understood when you speak. In my opinion this what's the most improtant thing when you learn a new language is to understand people and to be understood as well so I guess having a deep or a soft voice is not a problem at all :)
Yes ,Toshi , I thought about it before. Because my voice change when I speak in other language too.In truth I like my speaking in foreign languages :)
That totally happens to me too! When I speak Japanese, my voice is higher-pitched and maybe softer than when I speak English. When I speak English, I speak very quickly and in a little bit lower voice than in Japanese. When I speak Hebrew, my voice is very sing-songy. When I speak Satsuma dialect, I have to use a very different intonation than in normal Japanese, so my voice's pitch is closer to my English speaking one (not very high pitched).
I think this happens to everyone whether they realize it or not! I also think our personality or mannerisms change a little when we switch languages. There are some things I would never say or do when I'm speaking in Japanese, that I might when I'm speaking in English, and vice versa.
Now that you mentioned it, my voice is usually higher when I speak Japanese. Whereas when I speak Chinese or English, the tone is more deeper.
