Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
by 0xfaded on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:39PM
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This happened to me without deliberately picking a persona to model.
My Japanese persona is chirpy with a rhythmic speed.
My English is cold, monotonous and logical with a dry sense of humour. I honestly feel like a totally different person when I'm speaking Japanese.
Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
by cylinder on Saturday June 25, 2016 @11:49AM
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This is interesting. When I try to speak my second language (my parents' native language) as my regular self, I struggle. But when I am impersonating characters it flows so quickly I surprise myself.
When I started to learn Japanese I was given the advice to pick a persona from a movie or something to copy. This makes it much easier to mold your speech and become fluent faster. The strange thing was that I started to develop that personality in Japanese and before I knew it I had a completely different character when speaking Japanese than when speaking English. Even stranger, I liked myself a lot better in Japanese. It's one of the reasons I chose to stay in Japan.
Because I now have an English speaking job I'm slowly trying to learn how to be my Japanese self in English, but I find it difficult :-)