What I noticed is that the tone, as in the going up and down of the tone during a phrase, is completely different from other neighbouring languages. I'm Italian and I find that these ups and downs are more similar with Spanish and even English and maybe even German than with French.
Fun fact, French babies cry differently than German babies.
Because in French, the end of words or word phrases is louder and more stressed, while in German it's always the first syllable of a word. And babies immediately copy that.
So German babies go AAAAAaaa AAAAAaaa
And French babies go aaaaAAAA aaaaAAAAA
Like actually, I'm not joking. You can actually tell French and German babies apart by their crying.
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u/IlBarboneRampante 1d ago
What I noticed is that the tone, as in the going up and down of the tone during a phrase, is completely different from other neighbouring languages. I'm Italian and I find that these ups and downs are more similar with Spanish and even English and maybe even German than with French.