Have you ever tried to change your own persona?

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It's really interesting to hear people find they feel different when talking in another language. I love speaking Italian and I feel totally different when I talk to people. I'm much more outgoing. Happier to initiate conversation. I always put it down to the fact that I love Italy and when I'm there I'm happy but maybe the different language is important too. It's such an expressive language. It crys out for passion something I'm not good at in English

I tried, i kinda succeed, but not really. I wanted to be funny, to make people laugh all the time, i wanted to be the clown type. I ended up becoming an alpha male, strong, emphatic and mostly silent. In the end all i really wanted was a girlfriend and three years later i still never had one. Oh but the things i learned along the way..... it's been quite a ride....

Just today i came up with a new theory about low level control of body muscles. Your conscious mind can control certain key muscles, while the subconscious brain can control all muscles. So if you try to fake being strong you fail because you will only use the key muscles you have access to. If the subconscious brain wants to act strong it succeeds because it uses it's low level access to the body. This may be the key reason why people can't become somebody else, they don't have full access to all the body functions they would need to change... but the brain does... and it can be... engineered

I sound emotional and playful in english, totally boring in spanish. Also i work at a place where spanish speakers make an effort to speak english and i totally see a change in their personality when they switch languages. Even their voices can change.

I don't think the specific language has anything to do, it's just the newness of it. It is easy to be different if you speak a new language... meet new people... move to a new country... change haircut... wear new clothes...