#also re: thai tones. honestly i think the consonants are harder to replicate than the tones

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top deepening his voice when talking to mew's moms... gun speaking higher when talking to cher's mom... i love these choices

#also in both cases i'm pretty sure it's force's natural register lol #and he does it with such precision like i would NOT be able to modulate my voice like that #i have a relatively deep voice (for an afab woman) and i have a creaky pnw accent so i already speak lower than i should #like when i try to speak higher it just gets pulled down by my accent djfljdlsjg #it's kind of a miracle i can do thai tones/japanese pitch accent #tangent: TBH PITCH ACCENT IS ONLY HARD BECAUSE NO SENSEI WILL BOTHER TO TEACH YOU FOR SOME REASON #IF I HAD LEARNED THE PITCHES WHEN THE WORDS WERE FIRST TAUGHT TO ME I WOULDN'T FORGET THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHOPSTICKS AND BRIDGE #also re: thai tones. honestly i think the consonants are harder to replicate than the tones #like the difference between lover listen and goodnight are really hard to catch and i'd probably fuck them up #BUUUUUUT i'm so bad at Ds and Bs stress me out #you have to put your tongue in a completely different place on the roof of your mouth for D #M and B blend together #Ss turn into Ds (SOMETIMES) but american Ds because you're cutting off the breath rather than actually hissing #the tones are just like memorizing a song but you don't really have to hit the notes you just go up or down #(i know it's a little more complicated than that but you know what i mean) #(the point is that i don't have to relearn where my tongue goes lol i already know how to speak higher or lower) #ofs liveblog #abaab liveblog