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Message board > Do you feel the same....
Do you feel the same....
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Mariethe House
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Do you feel the same....
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when you speak your native language and when you speak a foreign language? Is it as easy to express your emotions in the foreign language? Do you speak any other language like a patois or dialect which is spoken by very few people? And what does it mean to you?
I myself, speak the local patois of the area where I was born . Only a few people speak it and mainly the generation of my parents which means few people. I love listening to it and I love speaking it although I can �t say much! It makes me feel " whole" if you seee what I mean! I feel all my being is engaged into it... It is much more pleasant and pleasurable. I feel I am really communicating! The sounds are so expressive and the expressions so full of images, it is totally unique.
can you tell us of similar experiences or emotions?
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23 Aug 2011
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maryse pey�
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Hi Mariethe,
as far as I �m concerned I speak French, English and Italian.
According to my mood and my emotion, my feeling words are coming out in the language I feel suiting better this emotion. Sometimes I feel strange because I am really unable to remember the word in French for a while...
I feel really lucky because I can pass from a language to another without any problem.
Even if I was born in France I DO consider my true roots in Italy. And I felt in love with English as soon as my 1st lesson...
I have even started to learn Japanese when I was given the occasion... and my friend had to go back in Japan... I miss him a lot ! Japanese is a wonderful language too ! |
23 Aug 2011
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s.lefevre
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My native language is German, but as I lived in France for 6 years and since then I have lived in Brazil, I express my feelings much better in French or Portuguese. Of course, I still speak German, I know how to spell and I know my grammar, but it feels artificial when I have " deeper" conversations. |
24 Aug 2011
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