I know English is gender-neutral language
But men and women have different speech patterns. Even when women use a voice changer to sound like a man, they sound zesty.
I realized I’m learning English speech mostly from men(male-dominated dramas tbh), and I was wondering if I’ll end up sounding more masculine…as a girl
The types of people you talk to absolutely affect your vocabulary and intonation. Don't worry about it permanently affecting you though. When you start interacting with a new group you will gradually develop a new code for communicating with them. Natives do this all the time. You don't talk to your parents the way you do your friends.
If you want to sound more effeminate then talk to more women. It'll happen all on its own.
I grew up and spent most my life in a California Coastal surfing town. I have a permanent surfer dude accent. I'd prob have to take speech coaching to get rid of it.
The people you're around most definitely have an impact on how you speak.
Sounding like a man if you're a woman is not a problem in the English speaking world. Sounding like a woman if you're a man will make people think you're gay, which will be a problem to different degrees in different parts of the English speaking world.
Short answer: yes.
However, fortunately or unfortunately, sounding relatively masculine as a woman isn't a big problem in Western English speaking cultures. It would be a different story if you were a man who sounded feminine - Western culture is still pretty judgemental about that, probably due to to homophobia.
You'll probably pick up specific pronunciations particular to their accent/dialect, but don't worry about sounding like a man if you learn from a man. Do girls who grow up in a house of men have manly voices, or vice verse? Not in my experience.
when you mentioned "zesty" it reminded me of this video: https://www.instagram.com/reels/C4G6_Q9Shu9/
You might pick up on a certain register if you talk to mostly men, e.g., using phrases or speaking the way someone would expect a man to speak. However, even as a native speaker, my tone and way of communicating have changed as I’ve gotten older and interacted with a more diverse set of people; and it will probably be the same for you as you improve your English. It’s also really cool that different people communicate in different or unexpected ways in English :)
In general, I wouldn't worry about it too much if you're just listening to men for listening practice. If you're trying to shadow them and copy how they sound, then you might have problems.
It does.
Linguists Robin Lakoff and Deborah Tannen would likely agree.
Zesty haha
Grammatically? No, not really.
There are some invisible social differences in the way people use or don't use some vocabulary and/or implications in the way sentences are structured, but that is not related to accent or gendered-terms/conjugations. And it is not something most native speakers will judge you on, especially if you are clearly a language-learner.
I wouldn’t have thought so. Dialect is way more significant, so make sure you aren’t only listening to Americans for example.
I read somewhere that because of the internet gendered dailects of English were beginging to form. that being said. I wouldnt worry about this type of thing as an English learner.
Valley girl and surfer dude were separate for awhile, it sounds like.
A woman with a deeper voice is usually described as "husky" and is considered very sexy. Kathleen Turner is famous for it.