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Is there music that alleviates your dysphoria?

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Nope, I only started HRT a couple of months ago to see if it was for me (it is but I need to delay my actual start for mostly unrelated medical reasons). I've not started actual voice training, I'm just pretty good at imitation. Which works great for singing but not as much for conversation.

I can actually pull off a decently feminine voice but it is always a character voice with a strong regional British accent. My own voice is much closer to RP English with a slight hint of BBC Scotland and some regional vocabulary from various places. So suddenly sounding like I'm from Larne, Birmingham, or Glasgow would be even more jarring than showing up speaking in a female voice.

At the moment I'm singing along to glory box by portishead , but I can't do that for long. My goal is to sing like Eivør, but that's a very long term goal.

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Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

Yes, to an extent, but I don't think it has to do with grammar as much as pronunciation. Norwegian (bokmål) and danish are almost indistinguishable when written down, but spoken Danish is pronounced very weirdly (a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants that causes it to sound like the speaker has gotten drunk on their way back from getting a root canal and is currently struggling to eat a hot potato). Despite Norwegian having a massive range of regional dialects, Norwegian kids learn to speak a lot quicker than danish kids. Largely because danish kids just don't understand what they're hearing for longer. The Danes have to subtitle their own TV programmes because they don't really understand each other. It's a fucking mess. Norwegian kids understand Swedish before danish kids understand danish.

Here is a short documentary on the danish language