People recognize emotional prosody in foreign languages; aspects of emotional prosody has universal qualities (Paulman & Uskul, 2014; Pell et al., 2009). Participants more accurately recognize emotions in their native than a foreign language(Pell et al., 2009). We studied these same accuracies for bilingual individuals. Also, the physical overlap of competing signals makes target speech more difficult to understand (Mattys et al., 2012). Thus, this we also investigated how background babble may affect emotion recognition.