misa.j-san
Doumo arigatou gozaimasu for the encouragement. I will keep on studying to become as fluent as you, epigene-san, and undrentide-san someday. You three are really my *a*ko*ga*re*.
ricecake-san
Oh, so you were that shy sometimes? How sweet! And, ahaha! unruly obnoxious posts? No way, I always enjoy your posts, so keep on posting!
yukio_michael-san
You are not using any specific coursework, which means you are studying on your own? Well, do you know this Japanese saying 継続は力なり (Keizoku ha chikara nari)? It literally means "Continuation is power" or " Persistence is power" but it's really like "Perseverance leads to success". So let's ganbari mashou with our daily study!
Originally Posted by Damicci
I wonder does anybody thaty is bi-lingual notice a change in thier voice when they speak a different language. I noticed my tone gets deeper when I speak Japanese. Maybe because I am concentrating so much.
Damicci-san, yeah~ I know what you are talking about. I think I have seen a thread on this topic somewhere before. If my memory is correct, they were saying they do change their tone when speaking a different language.
As for me, I can speak Japanese with various tones, such as "cool", "cruel", "burikko", high-pitch or low-pitch, soft or aggressive, and I can even speak with a really scary tone like Yakuza by trilling my tongue with a threatening tone. (I'm sure you will wet your pants if you hear me do that, hehehe.)
However, when speaking English, my tone is always the same, no matter how I am feeling, and my friend analyzed that it's because I'm putting too much effort into pronouncing correctly and clearly and just like you said, concentrating too much and that makes the tone always flat (in Japanese it's called 棒読み bou yomi).