Usually, when you hear a guy speaking a foreign language, and he sounds a little bit like a girl, it’s probably because he learned it from one. Honestly, can you blame him? I mean, what’s the major motivation for guys to learn languages? Dating foreign chicks!<\/p>\n
A woman asked me yesterday, “If I learn Cantonese from you, will I be speaking like a guy?” Luckily for the most part, Cantonese is a relatively gender-neutral language, minus a few sentence final particles<\/a> (archived here<\/a>)<\/sub>. But even if she ends up speaking like a guy, it’s ok. They’ll just think: “Wow! \u5462\u500b\u5973\u4eba\u8b1b\u8a71\u597d\u4f3c\u5572\u6b66\u4fe0\u5c0f\u8aaa\u5605\u300c\u82f1\u96c4\u8c6a\u5091\u300d\uff01” (Translation: “Wow! This woman talks like she’s one of those heroines from those martial arts novels!”) Afterall, it worked so well for this girl: Usually, when you hear a guy speaking a foreign language, and he sounds a little bit like a girl, it’s probably because he learned it from one. Honestly, can you blame him? I mean, what’s the major motivation for guys to learn languages? Dating foreign chicks! A woman asked me yesterday, “If I learn Cantonese … <\/p>\n
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