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Q: Does your personality seem different when you speak Chinese？
For some reason, when I speak Chinese my voice sounds a lot higher, so I get a lot of comments form Chinese people about how i'm very sweet and gentle (which is really not true).
Do people perceive you differently when you speak Chinese?
If you can perfect your T-pain autotune voice you will sound like a robot, thus tricking them into thinking you are one of their own.
Or just scream everything in Chinese at the top of your lungs. That helps too.
But thats an interesting phenomenon, i havent experienced it. Perhaps your trying too hard. I wouldnt think it would occur if you were just speaking naturally.
Yes they laugh, when I speak Chinese, or 'bu zhi dao' me.
I just switch back to English fast, looking for 'no ming bai'
too.
I think I am different in all of the languages I speak, although I do believe that language specifics change your attitude and behaviour anyway. In Chinese I feel like I am more innocent than I am in other languages, if that makes sense?
My Chinese is way too bad to feel that... But I feel so in the other languages I can speak.
When thinking and speaking in English, I tend to be less emotive, the humor and the references will have a heavy Anglo-Saxon slant, obviously due to the videos and books I used. Most of my late schooling was in English, and I usually search for information in English too, because it's where I get the most answers.
In Vietnamese, I speak with a higher pitch, this is a way I for me to deal with the tones correctly. My personal boundaries are quite reduced, and I behave more Vietnamese. I guess it have to do with the past experiences associated with the language learning process, I learned Vietnamese with Vietnamese people, in 100% Vietnamese environment.
humbug:
Yeah I definitely think it has something to do with tones- for some reason it's easier to speak them properly in a higher pitch- plus I think I'm more nervous so my voice is a little higher... 
Beacuse all my teachers and most of my Chinese friends were female when I was learning Chinese I have had some comment that the way I speak is quite feminine.
My personality seems different depending on which avatar I use on eChinaCities. For example, when posting as Scandinavian, I'm pro-Europe; when posting as mArtiAn, I'm pro-British; when posting as xunliang, I'm pro... uh, pro... uhm... I forgot; and when posting as DrMonkey, I'm pro-monkey.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: when posting as mike695ca, I'm pro-Canada.
I have multiple personality disorder.
Hulk:
icnif77,
You're me. I'm you. SHUT UP!!!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!
Riri,
I don't know you. You scare me. Oh wait, you're me as well. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!
My personality is about the same, jovial and nice. I don't speak any louder than I normally do, because I normally talk loud anyway. Chinese people say my pronunciation is very local, which I guess is good.
