> but I never thought of it as something typical German before. Well, people from Spain, France, Italy, Poland etc. are definitely on average louder in usual

> but I never thought of it as something typical German before. Well, people from Spain, France, Italy, Poland etc. are definitely on average louder in usual day to day situations. In that sense I feel, as a German, keeping your voice on a lower level is somewhat typical. Then again there are of course more countries with this tendency - some of them even stronger, f.x. Estonians.