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| Thanks for the tip  . I will try to avoid the same trap.
I ask because japanese, for e.g., is not a tonal language, and intonation is only significant to a minimal degree. Also with many of the shop sales staff I´ve encountered being quite curt with short, flat intonation (and no smile), I thought it was perhaps standard and acceptably polite.
Would you say females are more "sing songy" and polite with their intonation than males? Having only been here for a short time I haven't picked up what's general yet...
...And getting quality talk time with recently introduced swiss people, let alone a wide range of them) is not the easiest thing  . | |
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I don't know if it's a sing-songy is a female trait. My GF tells me that I speak German with a strong Swedish accent, which is very sing-songy.