I learned to speak Chinese with a Dongbei accent because I used to live not far from the OP (which definitely gets me weird looks as a white lady originally from Kansas.) Native Mandarin speakers are often SO confused by my accent. But yes…Taiwanese speakers do sound really melodic and beautiful. And I sound like I’m angry shouting all the time.
In Germany and Austria, the Swiss are well-known for speaking Scweizerdeutsch. For reasons unknown, they use diminutive forms of a ton of nouns. The result is that Swiss people speaking German sound like if you found a city in Appalachia where it was 100% normal to baby-talk to everyone, all the time.
On the flip side, no one can understand a goddamn thing coming out of a Viennese person’s mouth.
The dialect variance within the German language is insane at times
This is not exactly a new thing tho - here have a video from 1973 about it:
People in Taiwan have merged a bunch of sounds in Chinese and they absolutely sound like soft little sillies because of it. (And the replacement of that awful hard r with n/li is 100% the right choice.)
Me aand my dad just stood at the kitchen window for 10 mins looking at this one bird and trying to figure out what it was. liike imjust saying i was made to be a middle aged man i cant wait
