How to feel or invoke an emotional response with a word in a foreign language
One the the problems with speaking and hearing a foreign language is you do not feel the words like your own. If someone says ’I love you’ it does not have the same impact perhaps. You might accidentally say a bad word and not feel the shame or gravity of your mistake.
I am interested more in hearing than offering solutions on how to connect an emotional response to a word or expression in a foreign language.
One idea might be meditating or using visualisation connecting foreign words with imagined or real experiences. Or perhaps it just takes time. I have been speaking Polish at a reasonable level for only a couple of years and still the emotional response is light with many words. Certainly on an abstract level it feels the same, but I confess to bridge the gap might take time.
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