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It's really strange, but I have noticed over the past years that German women speak at least an octave deeper than American women or girls. I wonder why.

There are so many Turks in the German schools that speak with a strong Turkish jargon and accent, that many teenage German students have adopted their slang. Now how weird is that? Why isn't it the other way around?



I don't even know what a Turkish accent sounds like. What is it?

Will be interesting to see how the teenage girls today will be like 20 yrs. from now in terms of their speech patterns.

Myself and 4 sisters have alto voices...I think it's because our mother tongue is Chinese, a tonal language, that to speak English we flatten our tones and lower our voice an octave.

It's all natural and unconscious. Just something I've noticed...over the years. But then where are some other Chinese female dominanat families where that isn't quite true when they switch to English.
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