Research released on Thursday morning suggests your native language could have an impact on your musical ability.
The study compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of nearly half a million people, across 54 different languages.
It found tonal speakers, so languages like Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai and Vietnamese, are better able to discern between subtly different melodies.
Non-tonal speakers, like English, Spanish, French, and te reo Maori, are better able to tell when a rhythm is beating in time with music.
The study's lead author and head of the Music Lab, a University of Auckland and Yale University collaboration investigating how the human mind creates and perceives music, Dr Samuel Mehr, speaks with Ingrid Hipkiss.
